#QuickSidenote I’d be remiss if I didn’t post Gordon Lightfoot’s version, right…? #GordonLightfoot #SpyderTurner #OneHitWondered

MGM Records followed Spyder Turner’s hit single with a Stand By Me LP. The next single, Gordon Lightfoot’s “I Can’t Make It Anymore,” barely touched the #Billboard Hot 100 at #95… then Turner spent years working, writing, and gigging beyond the spotlight. #SpyderTurner #OneHitWondered

#QuickSidenote Producer/engineer Clay McMurray captured Spyder Turner doing the spot-on impressions over “Stand By Me” as a demo… MGM Records heard it, and basically said: don’t change a thing. #SpyderTurner #ClayMcMurray #OneHitWondered

Spyder Turner, with a chameleon voice, had a big pop moment in ’67 by turning “Stand By Me” into a roll call of R&B legends… He shifted into Ben E. King, Smokey Robinson, Chuck Jackson, Billy Stewart (and more), & he names them as he takes each verse in their style. #SpyderTurner #OneHitWondered

The week ending January 14, 1967, Detroit singer/songwriter Spyder Turner earned US #OneHitWonder honors when his unique cover of the Ben E. King/Leiber & Stoller classic “Stand By Me” entered the US #Billboard #Top40 at #26. Spent 8 weeks on the chart, peaking at #12 #SpyderTurner #OneHitWondered

My second tune is the much played classic Spyder Turner - I Can't Make It Anymore (MGM 1967). Spyder real name Dominic Turner was a singer, musician and producer who worked with artists such as Rose Royce.
#northernsoul #soul #KTF #spyderturner

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