John Turner was the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 used by the English

English people

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 lyricist

Lyricist

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 James John Turner Phillips.

He ran the Peter Maurice Music Company whose most important lyricist was Geoffrey Parsons. The company specialized in adapting songs originally in foreign languages into the English language

English language

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. He would usually assign a song to Parsons and when the latter was finished, suggest some changes. The credits for the English lyrics would then be given as "John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons."

Lyrics credited to Turner and Parsons

• "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart
  Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart
  "Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart" is a popular song and a cover version of "Auf wiedersehen, auf wiedersehen" written by German composer Eberhard Storch. Storch wrote the song in the hospital for his wife Maria as he was ill for a long time....
  
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• "Mama
  Mama (1960 song)
  "Mama" is a popular song first written in 1941 by Cesare Andrea Bixio with Italian lyrics by Bruno Cherubini under the title "Mamma son tanto felice" ....
  
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• "Oh! My Pa-Pa
  Oh My Pa-Pa (O Mein Papa)
  "O mein Papa" is a German song, as related by a young woman remembering her beloved, once-famous clown father. It was written by Swiss composer Paul Burkhard in 1939 for the musical Der Schwarze Hecht , reproduced in 1950 as Feuerwerk to a libretto by Erik Charell, Jürg Amstein, and Robert Gilbert...
  
  " based on the German language
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
   song O Mein Papa by Paul Burkhard
  Paul Burkhard
  Paul Burkhard was Swiss composer. He wrote primarily Oratoria, Musicals and Operettas.His probably most famous artistic creation was the song Oh mein Papa , about the death of a beloved clown-father, written for the musical "Der Schwarze Hecht" that premiered in April 1939...
  
  
• "Smile"

Lyrics credited to Turner, Parsons, and another collaborator

• "The Little Shoemaker
  The Little Shoemaker
  "The Little Shoemaker" is a popular song based on the French song, "Le petit cordonnnier," by Rudi Revil. The original French lyric was written by Francis Lemarque. The English language lyrics were written by Geoffrey Claremont Parsons, Nathan Korb and John Turner.In the United States, the...
  
  ," based on the French language
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
   song "Le petit cordonnier," with Nathan Korb.