Johnny Lee (born July 3, 1946) is an American country music singer. Lee's 1980 single "Lookin' for Love" became a crossover hit, spending three weeks at number 1 on the Billboard country singles chart while also appearing in the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. Johnny Lee racked up 17 top 40 country hits in the early and mid-1980s.
Johnny Lee was born in Texas City, Texas, and grew up on a dairy farm in nearby Alta Loma (now part of Santa Fe, Texas). In high school Lee formed a rock n' roll band, "Johnny Lee and the Roadrunners". After graduation, Johnny Lee enlisted in the United States Navy and served a tour of duty on the USS Chicago, a guided missile cruiser. After Lee's discharge, he had his name legally changed from John Lee Ham to Johnny Lee. He played cover tunes in Texas nightclubs and bars throughout the late 1960s.
Johnny Lee worked 10 years with Mickey Gilley, both on tour and at Gilley’s Club in Pasadena, Texas. The soundtrack from the 1980 hit movie Urban Cowboy, which was largely shot at Gilley's, catapulted Lee to fame. The record spawned several hit singles, including "Lookin' for Love."
Johnny Lee also had five other songs reach the top of the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart: "One in a Million" (1980), "Bet Your Heart on Me" (1981), "The Yellow Rose" (1984, a duet with Lane Brody and the theme song to the NBC TV-series of the same name), and "You Could Have Heard a Heartbreak" (1984). Lee's other hits include "Pickin' Up Strangers" (1981), "Prisoner of Hope" (1981), "Cherokee Fiddle"(1982), "Sounds Like Love"(1982), "When You Fall In Love"(1982), "Be There For Me Baby"(1981), "Hey Bartender" (1983), "Rollin' Lonely"(1984), and "Save the Last Chance" (1985).
From 1982 to 1984, Johnny Lee was married to Dallas actress Charlene Tilton, with whom he had a daughter, Cherish (born 1982). Lee married his second wife, Deborah Spohr Lee, in 1986. The couple had a son, Johnny Lee Jr., in 1990 and divorced years later. Deborah died November 7, 2002, after a long battle with prescription painkillers. After Johnny Lee Jr. died in 2014 at the age of 23 of a drug overdose, Lee became active in combating the illegal drug epidemic.
In the fall of 2008, Johnny Lee began performing regularly in Branson, Missouri. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)
This is a high quality dubbed version of Johnny Lee performing his 1982 hit song, "Cherokee Fiddle". All copyrights and proceeds belong to the artist and respective parties.
Johnny Lee - Cherokee Fiddle
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