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Ryder was born on February 26, 1945, in Hamtramck, Michigan. [2] He spent his high school years in Warren, Michigan, a suburb north of Detroit. [3] He formed his first band, Tempest, when he was in high school, and the group gained some notice playing at a Detroit soul music club called The Village. [4]
The Detroit Wheels were an American rock band, formed in Detroit in 1964. They served as Mitch Ryder's backup band from 1964 to 1967.. The band had a number of top twenty hits in the mid-1960s before lead singer Ryder was enticed away by Bob Crewe with offers of a solo career, after which the group quickly dissolved.
Ryder quit the group because of voice problems in 1972, and Detroit vocalist Rusty Day (formerly of the American Amboy Dukes and Cactus) took over his spot; without Ryder, the group floundered, and eventually broke up in 1974. While not as commercially successful, Rusty Day's era of Detroit was a powerhouse to be reckoned with.
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Director Claude Lelouch used the song at the climax of his 1974 film Toute une vie, which led to it being released in America under the title And Now My Love. US Top 40 covers include Sonny & Cher (#14 US, #13 UK) in 1966, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass instrumentally in the same year, and Mitch Ryder the following year. Alpert's recording was ...
"Devil with a Blue Dress On" (also known as "Devil with the Blue Dress") is a song written by Shorty Long and William "Mickey" Stevenson, first performed by Long and released as a single in 1964. A later version recorded by Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels in 1966 peaked at No.
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James William McCarty (born June 1, 1945) is an American blues rock guitarist from Detroit, Michigan.He has performed with Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, [1] the Buddy Miles Express, Cactus, The Rockets, the Detroit Blues Band, and more recently, Mystery Train.