Big Break Big Round-Up: Spotlight on Spyder Turner, Randy Crawford and Enchantment

Today, we’re taking a look at three recent releases from Big Break Records that you just might have missed! Spyder Turner may be best remembered today for a novelty single.  His 1967 reworking of Ben E. King’s classic “Stand by Me” found him channeling his inner Rich Little or Sammy Davis, Jr. to impersonate such famous voices as James Brown, Sam Cooke, and Smokey Robinson.  Love it or loathe it, Turner’s “Stand by Me” made it all the way to No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.  But the West Virginia native…

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