Scott Turner (born Graham Morrison Turnbull; August 23, 1931 – February 9, 2009) was a Canadian composer, producer, musician and publisher, who had an illustrious career in the music industry spanning over 50 years composing songs with Buddy Holly, Audie Murphy, Herb Alpert, John Marascalco and many others.

[2] After leaving the label, he served as an independent producer on several albums for Slim Whitman, garnering Turner four U.K Gold Records, and produced recording sessions for artists such as (in alphabetical order) Bobby Bare, Larry Butler, Jimmy Bryant, Vicki Carr, Johnny Carver, Jimmy Clanton, Roy Clark, Rosemary Clooney, Penny DeHaven, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Lewis, Willie Nelson, Harry Nilsson, Bill Phillips, Del Reeves, Ray Sanders, Mel Tillis, Cliffie Stone, and Jerry Wallace, among others.

He had a number of songs included in movies (see Compositions section below for more details), and his television credits include serving as music director for "Christmas on the General Jackson" (which led to the release in 1988 of a soundtrack album of traditional Christmas songs produced and arranged by Turner and Ron Bledsoe, and performed by Mel Tillis, Kathy Mattea, Lynn Anderson, Butch Baker, Donna Fargo, and David Lynn Jones, among others[6]), and to making appearances on The Perry Como Show, The Milton Berle Show, The Mike Douglas Show, Entertainment Tonight and A Current Affair.

[2] Turner's songs have been recorded by (in alphabetical order) Kay Adams, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Eddy Arnold, The Baja Marimba Band, James Burton, Larry Butler, Jimmy Bryant, Roy Clark, Jimmy Dean, Penny DeHaven, The Del-Vikings, Dave Dudley, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Robert Gordon, Bonnie Guitar, Wanda Jackson, Dean Martin, Skeets McDonald, Nilsson, Charley Pride, Del Reeves, Jean Shepard, Wynn Stewart, Sonny Throckmorton, Gene Vincent, Porter Wagoner, Jerry Wallace, Slim Whitman, and Tammy Wynette.

[8] Herb Alpert's 1964 recording of Turner's song "Mexican Drummer Man" was used in the 1966 Teri Garr short Where's the Bus,[9][10] "One More River to Cross" (co-written with Freddie Scott)[11] can be heard in the Christopher Walken film The Opportunists,[9] and "Little Pink Mack" (co-written with Chris Darrell Roberts and Jim Thornton)[12] was used in the film Truckers.

[2][16] As of June 2012, Australian biographer Damian Johnstone (author of "The Wild One: The Life and Times of Johnny O'Keefe" and "A Race to Remember: The Peter Norman Story"[17]) was writing a biography of Scott Turner with the working title "Shutters and Boards – The Scott Turner Story," which is tentatively planned for publication in 2013.