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Mitch Ryder (born February 26, 1945 in Hamtramck , Michigan ), actually William S. Levise, Jr. , is an American rock musician and singer.
Life
Mitch Ryder played R&B in the band The Tempest when he was a schoolboy. At the age of 17 he recorded the single That's What It's Going To Be / Fool For You on the small Detroit label Carrie and acted as the frontman for a black vocal trio called Peps.
Career
In 1962 he started his own band Billy Lee & The Rivieras . 1965 changed Billy Lee & The Rivieras , which briefly before Detroit to New York were pulled her name on the advice of her manager Bob Crewe in Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels . The reason for this was a name conflict with another band, also called The Rivieras , which had the single California Sun on the market.
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels were the musical bridge between the Detroit Motown - Soul , purist Soul in the style of James Brown and energiegeladenem rock and roll of the 1950s, as he later by artists such as MC5 , Grand Funk Railroad , Ted Nugent and Seger Bob developed has been.
With the line-up Ryder, Jim McCarty & Joe Kubert (guitar), Earl Elliott (bass), and Johnny "Bee" Badanjek (drums) they had Jenny Take A Ride! her first hit. This was followed by CC Rider , Jenny, Jenny , Little Latin Lupe Lu , a medley of Devil With A Blue Dress On and Good Golly Miss Molly , Sock It To Me-Baby! and finally another medley of Too Many Fishes In The Sea and Three Little Fishes .
In 1967, Mitch Ryder began a solo career, also on the advice of Bob Crewe. His performances in Las Vegas , with a big band behind them, were commercially unsuccessful. Before returning to Detroit, he recorded in Memphis with Booker T. & the MG's and the Memphis Horns . After an interlude with the soul band Liberty , Ryder played with the short-lived super group Detroit - consisting of Steve Hunter (guitar), Ron Cooke (bass), Brett Tuggle (guitar), Harry Phillipps (keyboard instruments), Dirty Ed (percussion) and Detroit Wheels - Drummer Johnny "Bee" Badanjek - 1971 only one album and three singles for Paramount Records.
Disappointed, Ryder left the music business for five years and lived in Denver , Colorado. Back in Detroit, he signed a contract with Line Records in Hamburg and released albums that especially attracted attention in Europe .
He became known to a broad European audience through his legendary “Full Moon” appearance on the fifth WDR Rockpalast Night in the Grugahalle Essen on 6/7. October 1979, when, obviously drunk, he messed around with his band first, then in a live interview with the presenter Alan Bangs and finally with the audience, and still played a concert with high atmospheric density. Alan Bangs described Ryder's next appearance as "one of the best performances I've ever seen ..."
In 1983 Ryder returned to the US rock scene with the album Never Kick A Sleeping Dog , produced by Little Bastard (pseudonym for John Cougar Mellencamp ). With the Prince cover version When You Were Mine from his album Dirty Mind , he returned to the lower regions of the US charts (# 87 Billboard).
After 2000
After the turn of the millennium, Mitch Ryder became popular mainly in Europe, especially in Germany. His backing band in Europe is the German group Engerling , with whom he has been touring sporadically since 1994 and every year from January to March since 2002. The band was also involved in the CD productions Rite Of Passage (1994), The Old Man Springs A Boner (2003), A Dark Caucasian Blue (2004) and The Acquitted Idiot (2006).
In 2008 his latest work "You Deserve My Art" was released, at the end of 2007 also recorded with Engerling. Mitch Ryder dedicated the concert on February 13, 2008 in the Kesselhaus in the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin to his sister, who died an hour before the show began.
Awards
- 2005: Mitch Ryder The Detroit Wheels Michigan Rock and Roll Legends
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
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 US
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| 1966 | Take a ride | - |
US78 (7 weeks) US |
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
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| Breakout | - |
US23 (34 weeks) US |
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
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| 1967 | Sock It To Me | - |
US34 (16 weeks) US |
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
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| All Mitch Ryder hits | - |
US37 (26 weeks) US |
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
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| 1981 | Got Change For A Million |
DE62 (3 weeks) DE |
- | |
| 1983 | Never Kick A Sleeping Dog | - |
US120 (9 weeks) US |
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More albums
- 1967: All The Heavy Hits (Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels)
- 1967: What Now My Love (Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels)
- 1969: The Detroit-Memphis Experiment
- 1971: Detroit (Detroit feat. Mitch Ryder)
- 1979: How I Spent My Vacation
- 1980: Naked But Not Dead
- 1981: Live Talkies
- 1982: Smart Ass
- 1986: In The China Shop
- 1988: Red Blood White Mink
- 1992: La Gash
- 1994: Rite Of Passage
- 1996: At The Logo Hamburg
- 1997: Get Out the Vote-Live at the Hill Auditorium - April 1, 1972 (Detroit with Mitch Ryder)
- 1999: Monkey Island
- 1999: War - Best
- 2003: The Old Man Springs A Boner (Mitch Ryder & Engerling)
- 2004: A Dark Caucasian Blue (Mitch Ryder & Engerling)
- 2005: Devil With Her Blue Dress Off (studio recordings of old US hits from 1991)
- 2005: Jenny Take A Ride (new recordings of old hits like "Devil With A Blue Dress", "Jenny Take A Ride", "Sock It To Me", "Rock And Roll" (Velvet Underground Cover Version), "Baby Jane "," Little Latin Lupe Lu "," Too Many Fish In The Sea "," Liberty "," I'd Rather Go To Jail "," Shake A Tail Feather ". Label: UK-Going For A Song)
- 2006: The Acquitted Idiot (Mitch Ryder & Engerling)
- 2006: Red Scar Eyes (Mitch Ryder & Engerling)
- 2008: You Deserve My Art (Mitch Ryder & Engerling)
- 2009: Detroit Ain't Dead Yet (The Promise)
- 2009: Air Harmonie (Live in Bonn 2008) (Mitch Ryder feat. Engerling)
- 2013: It's Killing Me (Mitch Ryder & Engerling)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 UK
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US
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| 1965 | Jenny Take A Ride Take A Ride |
UK33 (5 weeks) UK |
US10 (12 weeks) US |
B-side: Baby Jane (Mo Mo Jane)
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels |
| 1966 | Little Latin Lupe Lu Breakout |
- |
US17 (9 weeks) US |
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
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| Break Out Breakout |
- |
US62 (5 weeks) US |
B-side: I Need Help
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels |
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| Takin 'All I Can Get Sock It To Me |
- |
US100 (1 week) US |
B-Side: You Get Your Kicks
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels |
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| Devil With A Blue Dress On Breakout |
- |
US4 (16 weeks) US |
B-side: Good Golly Miss Molly
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels |
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| 1967 | Sock It To Me Baby Sock It To Me |
- |
US6 (11 weeks) US |
B-side: I Never Had It Better
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels |
| Too Many Fish In The Sea |
- |
US24 (6 weeks) US |
B-side: One Grain Of Sand
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels |
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| Joy |
- |
US41 (6 weeks) US |
B-side: I'd Rather Go To Jail
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| What Now My Love What Now My Love |
- |
US30 (7 weeks) US |
B-side: Blessing In Disguise
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| You Are My Sunshine You Are My Sunshine |
- |
US88 (3 weeks) US |
B-side: Wild Child
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| (You 've Got) Personality - Chantilly Lace |
- |
US87 (4 weeks) US |
B-side: I Make A Fool Of Myself
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| 1983 | When You Were Mine Never Kick A Sleeping Dog |
- |
US87 (4 weeks) US |
B-side: Stand
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More singles
- 1962: That's The Way It's gonna Be / Fool For You (with Bill Lee And The Rivieras)
- 1962: You Know / Won't You Dance With Me (with Bill Lee And The Rivieras)
- 1965: I Need Help / I Hope (Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels)
- 1965: Come See About Me (Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels)
- 1967: You Get Your Kicks / Ruby Baby
- 1967: Baby I Need Your Loving (plus Theme For Mitch / Ring Your Bell)
- 1968: Linda Sue Dixon (Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels)
- 1969: Sugar Bee / I Believe
- 1969: It's Been A Long Time / Direct Me
- 1971: It Ain't Easy / Long Neck Goose
- 1972: Rock And Roll / Box Of Old Roses (Detroit feat. Mitch Ryder)
- 1972: Ohh-La la La-Dee Da Doo / Gimme Shelter (Detroit feat. Mitch Ryder)
- 1979: Nice And Easy / Passions Wheel
- 1979: Freezin 'In Hell / Long Hard Road
- 1979: Rock And Roll / Soul Kitchen (Live in Essen 79)
- 1980: Ain't Nobody White / It's My Life
- 1980: War / I Don't Wanna Hear It
- 1980: We're Gonna Win / Beyond The Wall / Bare Your Soul
- 1981: Red Scar Eyes / We're Gonna Win
- 1983: He is not my President / Berlin
- 1985: Like A Rolling Stone / Can Do
- 1985: Good Golly Ask Ollie / Good Golly Ask Ollie (Dun Mix)
- 1992: Do You Feel Alright / Bye Bye Love / Devil With ... / Good Golly Miss Molly
- 1994: See You Again / Actually / By The Feel
Video albums
- 2004: Mitch Ryder - At Rockpalast 1979 & 2004 (DVD)
Web links
- Official website of Mitch Ryder
- Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels at Michigan Rock and Roll Legends
- Rockpalast archive with report on the 5th WDR Rocknacht, track list, discography and other links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rockpalastarchiv.de
- ↑ Michigan Rock and Roll Legends - MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK US
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ryder, Mitch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levise, William S. Jr. (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rock musician and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamtramck , Michigan, USA |