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Jerry Fuller

American songwriter (1938–2024)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
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Jerrell Lee Fuller was an American songwriter, singer, and record producer, best known for writing several hit songs in the 1960s. Fuller toured as a featured singer with The Champs before leaving to serve in the Army. Fuller's version of "Tennessee Waltz" made No. 63 on the Billboard Hot 100, and earned him an invitation to appear on American Bandstand. Fuller wrote for Ricky Nelson, who had top hits with "Travelin' Man", "A Wonder Like You", "Young World", and "It's Up to You". From 1967-1971, Fuller worked as a music producer at Columbia Records and, in 1970, he started his own Moonchild production company.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1971, 1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Jerry, Fuller and American can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jerry Fuller” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.