spyder turner born dwight david turner february 4 1947 beckley west virginia is an american soul singer turner was raised in detroit and sang in doo wop groups and high school choirs while young he first began recording after winning a contest at the apollo theater in new york recording some solo sides and singing backup for groups called the stereophonics and the fabulous countsin 1966 record producer clay mcmurray had turners group do a recording session and soon after turner signed to mgm records and released a single a cover of the soul number stand by me imitating not only ben e king but smokey robinson chuck jackson and billy stewart among others the tune climbed to 3 on the us billboard black singles chart and 12 on the billboard hot 100 chart early in 1967 soon after a fulllength album was released peaking at 14 on the black albums chart and 158 on the billboard 200 a second single from the album i cant make it anymore peaked at 95 on the hot 100 pop chartturner left his management after dissatisfaction with mgms soul division which consisted only of howard tate and himself and played regionally in the south in the early 1970slater that decade turner began working with norman whitfield and wrote the tune do your dance for rose royce which was a top ten rb hit he continued recording in the late 1970s and early 1980s including a song for the movie the last dragon billed on the soundtrack as dwight david he did some acting as well he continues to perform in michigan and released his most recent album in 2006 through cd babyin march 2008 turner appeared on english man carl dixons bandtraxs session at studio adetroit where he provided vocals and writing skills to complete the songs along with singers pree gayle butts and other detroit musicians including dennis coffey co producer and uriel jonesturner performed lead and backing on tell me crying over youglory fleeting and in addition backing vocals on suddenly theres you and as group personnel of bandtraxs singing on the funkrap styled detroit city by the river the session was arranged by ex motown arranger david j van de pitte15 of the cover price of spyders single im gonna miss you penned by frances nero and released on february 1 2010 is being donated to the haiti recovery fund