Born as William Grishaw, honky tonk guitarist Zeb Turner took his name from his best-loved composition, the “Zeb Turner Stomp” Turner first turned up on wax as a member of the Hi Neighbor Boys on the American Record Label in 1938, but he soon left the group to join forces with his brother James who took the stage name of Zeke Turner
A country music personality in the “Cowpoke” tradition that Roy Rogers and Gene Autry eventually made famous, Zeke Clements was already a radio personality at the tender age of 17 when he was hired as part of Chicago’s famous National Barn Dance radio program
Before there was the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies, there was a country music trio by the same name, led by composer/musician Zeke Manners, who also hosted popular radio programs in “Los Angeles” and New York during the ’40s and ’50s