@@jamesweldon9726 I didn't know Jimmy and Johnny played with Mitch... but I did see them when they had the band The Rockets... Royal Oak Music Hall circa 1982ish..... fun times!
saw Mitch in 70 in Sarasota Fl. I was a live recording enthusiast and wishing I had brought my 2 track equipment to record the show. I hooked up with the sound engineer touring with Mitch and I got him to allow me to record the show through the soundboard. Needless to say I was blown away. I set up back stage and at the end of the show with the audience stomping for more Mitch approached me backstage and asked me what I was doing. Told him 'recording your show, and with that he asked to put on my head phones so he could listen. BIG smile on his face saying it was fantastic and had the audience wait for a few minutes while he listened. Will never forget that evening! Thank you Mitch!
Saw them at the Ann Arbor Armory back in 67. It was my first concert and they SLAYED IT !!!! I had blisters on my feet from dancin' my ass off. I was 14 and will never forget that Mitch was so nice and talked me during the bands break. Jim McCarty even let me play his guitar. Mind was blown then and even now.
nice..probably the best band ever.. the Wheels... they helped Mitch develop this style and sound...this band was the hardest hardest band to come down the pipe in the mid-sixties.. I saw a show in 1967 and Mitch blew a way the Who and Cream who opened for him. Also the Rascals, Wilson Picket, Blues Project, Chicago Loop and Ronnie Specter on the same bill. It was one continous show from morning till night.. General admission $3.50....
Burden is American as Russian borscht, he is English, Mitch is the original but even he is not from Detroit, but from somewhere in Michigan, take care Bud, greetings from Chicago, but this s probably the greatest " screaming rock " ever recorded, have a great Memorial Day! See See and C C ryder, check it out!
I wrote Sock it to me baby with the late Bob Crewe. I worked with the band several months prior to Crewe bringing them into the studio. He knew what he had in Mitch and his brilliant band. this track was by far my favorite. I loves have a smash and selling millions of records but this was the best record Mitch ever made. L.Russell Brown
@jason royale Yes, Jim McCarty of Cactus fame (later in the seventies). It's a shame they were never as popular as the Detroit Wheels. Well, they were with me anyway. One of my favorite guitar players.
From a 62 yoa black man this is the best example of "blue eyed soul" that I have ever heard!!! Ryder's singing is superb. This is "the shit" right here!
It IS the shit, ain't it? That's cuz it has nothing to do with skin color...what it is is the sound of The Motor City in the 60's. That's exactly what that is right there....comin' thru loud, clear and with a whole lotta soul.....
Charles, I was from Greater Boston. And for YEARS!!! maybe even more than a decade -- I thought that Mitch WAS black!!! Fabulous voice. Sounds like a baritone with a brassy tinge to it.
I believe that was John Badanjek, who played with Jim McCarty on guitar, in their band the Rockets, in the seventies. Used to dance with their ladies, while they performed at the 24 Karat Club. They rocked, too!
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Mitch and The Wheels live back in the 60's. Jim McCarty was one the hottest guitar players in The Detroit Wheels that Mitch ever had. One of the most exciting groups to see in person ever!
I was raised in the Pentecostal church. This was the kind of music we had. Happy and joyful. Lots of hand-clapping and dancing in the aisles. Substitute a Hammond C3 and a Steinway for the lead and rhythm guitars and you're there.
My youngest uncle who's about 14 years older than me gave me the original album in the early 70s. I still have it and play it regularly. He got me into Zep and others when my dad only played country . Love that ol' Hank and Lefty Frizzel ,Pastry Cline though.
Saw Mitch in a little dance hall in Louisiana about 30 years ago and believe it when I say he was still the man. He did the most _amazing_ slow bluesy Soul Kitchen. I’ll never forget it. His voice was more growly than it is here...sounded even more perfect for the material.
I saw these guys do this song live when I was about ten. It was a huge open air stage in Maryland next to the ocean and wasn't even a real concert, they had just been hired to provide some music as people walked around but I've never forgotten how excited I was when I heard this, I couldn't believe what I was hearing and seeing. They were the end of the world.
What a smokin band they were...Jim's solo is nuts, Johnny B is a freakin machine on the kit and, Mitch had a busload of soul and, an amazing and powerful voice...Sweet Baby Jesus
Geez at 15 years old, this is the best music I ever heard..... Was lucky that the parents bought a console. When they were not at home I cranked the volume. Devil with a blue dress sent me into a trance. I used one 9v battery a day... Stones etc under my pillow. Life was good !
Rock and Roll as it should be. Never like that the guitars are not plugged in. If they wanted us to believe they were actually playing they should of had a cord plugged in.
The comment that kids went crazy when the song came on in the 60s is 100% correct. I was around 17 years old at the time, and my brother was 15. We had a close friend and his name was Mark. He was about 15 or 16 years old. When the three of us were together in my car going someplace, and if this song came on the radio, Mark would reach over and turn the volume up maximum. And that was only the beginning. His body would be moving back and forth so much that he would make the car rock back and forth. He would sing along with the lyrics. But really what he really liked doing, was to scream at the appropriate moments in a very soul or funk fashion - and man, was it loud. We tended to have all of the windows rolled down and people would stare at us from all directions. One of the things that I also vividly remember, was my fear of being pulled over by the police. This was extremely prevalent in my mind. It seemed like such chaos going on inside my car with this song blasting and Mark screaming like a lunatic, it was inevitable that sooner or later we would be stopped by the police and asked to get out of the car. Fortunately, that never happened. And we never turn down the volume when this song came on - we loved to hear Mark go completely crazy, and in reality, he simply could not control himself. Honestly, even though I enjoyed this tremendously, I was always frightened that I would see the blinking red lights in my rear-view mirror. And had the police ever been within hearing distance, I know they would've yanked this right out of the car. So, when Jack says that kids went crazy when the song came on, it is the absolute complete and total truth. There must've been hundreds of thousands of listeners around the world that responded the way in which Mark had - he simply became possessed by Mitch Ryder. It was truly magical.
Mitch Ryder rules. I saw an interview with him and he wrote a book recently and he is so intelligent and knowledgeable it was a pleasure to listen to him and he still performs. They were a very exciting band, and Mitch's voice is so unique. Could listen to him sing just about anything.
I was 12 years old when I used to pretend I was a gogo dancer dancing to this song. My favorite band, even more than The Beatles! Their music is still great music - who knew I had such good taste as a little kid?
This song came out when I was 8...even at that point I was watching all the after school music and dance shows...and 50 years later, just a month ago the Trifecta of Rock...Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, and Mitch Ryder came through town. It was a great show...the next day, I left early for work and happened to drive past a hotel--where they were staying apparently...and there was Mitch himself sitting on a bench waiting for his airport ride. I jumped out of my vehicle and sat with him for about 20 minutes. The conversation was real and genuine. I think we covered most major social and cultural issues locally and nationally! It's a treat to have that kind of discussion with anyone, and to have it be with an icon of early rhythm and blues rock and roll...well, I would enjoy it again! Rock on!
These men were an integral part of our Wilson Jr. High Youth Club. It was like a completely goofy unorganized uncoordinated 7-8-9 grade friday night gym dance. It was and will always be a highlight in my life. Thanks for memories Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.
Once again the bass is driving this song. Just an incredible job laying down the essence, the heart and soul of the song. YET, the camera gives him not one second of face time.
You are so correct about ignoring the bass player as was so common back in the day, the camera work was horrible. Sometimes it was due to stationary equipment and the positioning of the musicians, but most times the camera was focused on the lead singer, or wrong musician because the cameraman was either a knot-head or caught up in the energy of the performance.
Played on the Wolfman Jack show from Rock Radio XERB from Tijuana, Mexico. 50.000 border blastin watts, heard all over Canada and the U.S.A. Thank god for the state of MICHIGAN, gave us Mitch and Bob Seger, plus all those great cars of the 30's 40's 50' 60' and early 70"s great accomplishment that!!!!!!!
Mitch Ryder had some great songs that were great to turn up in your muscle car if you were lucky enough to have one of those beast like a 69 roadrunner etc.
The whole Michigan crew from the 50's 60s and 70s, were all legendary. Bob Seger, Iggy Pop and the stooges, frijid pink, MC five, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, and many others including, Bill Haley and his comets. I put Bill up there because many people don't know he was born in highland Park Michigan. But the explosion of rock'n roll in the 60s and 70s, al better part of that explosion was coming out of Michigan. And many people didn't realize it back then just as today not many know of the rock history out of Michigan. PS it's a damn shame. These Michigan musicians were not just rock'n rollers,, they were creating new genres of rock'n roll.
I can still remember hearing it for the very time in the 60’s. It was shocking, because it was so different than listening to a Beatles song. Jim McCarty the guitar player was already a legend in the 60’s. He would go on to form the rock group Cactus. They are widely considered to be one of the pioneers of Heavy Metal loud music.
I was lead guitarist in Collectors a soul band in central Kansas and we played gig in Hays Kansas in 1967 at the Dark Horse club. We were loading our stuff and Mitch Ryder was bringing there stuff in at same time. That was a Kodak moment but no Kodak. He was my favorite then and still is. My son and I went to hear him at Cotillion in Wichita about 10 years ago. I got a pick from Jim. Loved it.
A melhor versão que realmente representa o som e o balanço de uma diversão, uma festa, um estado de espírito... vale lembrar uma canção que me recordo quando dou minhas voltas boas de moto....
Saw him when it was the Mitch Ryder Show with his full brass section touring with him! Whoa!~ Still gives me chills just thinking how good the music was!
One of my best memories is seeing him in Va Beach, VA in the mid-60's with that horn section. I was a teenager, never seen a show with so much R & B power, swaggering horns, high energy.... Blew. Me. Away. Still think of that show almost 50-years later!
God Bless Detroit! It so sad that a city that has over and over again given it's heart and soul to everybody is now outcast. To have so many turn their back on this city. Shame! Detroit will survive in spite of you all.
Have you been to Detroit lately, and not just listened to the naysayers? It IS a thriving city, and it loves ALL its many musical influences, from Motown, to blues, gospel, jazz, blue eyed soul, even techno....it has problems, but don't all cities?
Mitch real name is Billy Levi and he was a regular person from the warrendale neighborhood in Detroit where I grew up. That's what made him who he was. His upbringing.
mitch ryder doing a little james brown dancing action Love loved LOVED this group you will never see these types of awesome groups again we were very very lucky to have lived to enjoy
Transistor radio, berry fields, dancing not picking berries...bought 45 on the walk home from the field (after C.C.Rider I did pick berries) and played it on my crummy record player in my room...music will never sound that powerful or liberating again.
Such great memories. Remember going to the Village in downtown Detroit in the early 60's. Mitch was Billy Lee then, singing soul and R&B. He later formed Billy Lee & the Rivieras, which became Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.
First off, as a "transplanted" Detroiter, I LOVE Detroit. I'm originally from Toledo, but "the D" is my adopted hometown, and I love it. Great blue collar work ethic, great, proud attitude, very gritty, diverse ethnic pockets, restaurants, etc, great sports teams & fans, . It's a very maligned American city, which is a pity / crime. I used to see ALL the Detroit bands either "live", or on Detroit TV ( Robin Seymour's "Swingin' Time"). Mitch Ryder always had great musicians around him. Jimmy McCarty ( talented enough to play on the Jimi Hendrix "posthumous" album, made up of charts Hendrix never got to finish: "Nine to The Universe" ), and Johnny B, an absolutely smokin' drummer. Mitch's band, Detroit: , which had a hit with Lou Reed's "Rock & Roll". All these musicians, in addition to Mitch Ryder who was a great singer in the "white soul voice" mold, always reinforce my sense of "Detroit pride" when it comes to contemporary music. I've listened to this track hundreds if not thousands of times, but it still makes me move,and makes me stir with Detroit pride. Absolutely timeless, and powerful!!!!!!
As an innocent teenager at the time I liked this, but I have to say that since then I have discovered 50s & 60s R&B which has so many numbers of equal greatness..Credits to these guys for picking up on it.
Sowas Geiles... man bedenke, wie lange das her ist! Der Mann kann singen mit ganzer Seele, super Stimme, und tanzen kann er auch.. Als man seinerzeit mehr zufällig solche Musik zu hören bekam, ging die Sonne auf... Es war einfach eine Offenbarung für junge Leute mit Gefühl für echte Musik, und das hält bis heute an. Thx Mich!
The drums on this awesome. John (Johnny Bee) Badanjek could really whip up a storm. The guy was relentless! Mitch had others fill in for him sometimes, but it was never the same.
CLASSIC. I still love this song. Another of my favorites. I remember listening to this song back in the 70's. Great soulful music for the heart and mind.
My buddies and I saw him in 1966 at Cobo Hall in Detroit. It was a "Battle of the Bands" and he sang "Mustang Sally" as well as "Midnight Hour". Mitch was a big part of growing up days in Pontiac, Michigan. I listened to his records over and over until I nearly wore out the record needle.
I met Mitch Ryder back in '67. A great guy! We had dinner at Lionel Bart's house in London and he was a perfect gentlemen. He should be in the R&R Hall of fame.
Wish there was a similar clip on CZcams of Devil With The Blue Dress On. It was a massive hit in the States but sadly did nothing in the UK. I think it's an amazing track.
Dave: I've looked at the Jennny Take a Ride clip. There are several versions done by Mitch Ryder. I've also listened to Devi With The Blue Dress On and it was Devil With A Blue Dress ON. It's there. I promise. I hope you can find it. Try searching for the song itself, or Mitch Ryder. Good luck my friend.
@@larrysuekov5830 There are 2 clips where it's listed as Devil etc but they're miming to Jenny. You can tell by the drumming for starters. Those brilliant fill-ins aren't there and i can tell by his snare drum work that it isn't Devil. I'm an ex-druimmer. Also you can tell that Mitch isn't singing Devil. Watch his lips. Over to you.
Born to sing Rock N Roll. He was a GREAT singer, without a doubt. Didn't like seeing him sing when he got older. With his kind of voice I think it kind of blows out after not to long a time. I was just thinking of him the other day after hearing one of commentaries of the rock god Robert Plants voice, and how great it was and all that. Then I started think about all of the rock singers I could think of who's voices I thought were better. MItch Ryder came to mind.. Yeah, I know they are different styles. I still think MItch Ryder is better and,oh yes, cooler too.
What a cookin band!! I was in high school in the 60s, and am having so much fun finding these great tunes on videos here! Wow!! Most of the "videos" from that time were from TV shows. where I grew up only had 1 channel so TV was never a big thing for me, so it's great to see them now! The 60s and 70s were such a great time to be young! We had so much fun in those days, the music was great - inspired by mind expanding substances and plants haha!! And there was so much of it, every week some great new band or song coming out!! Everyone danced! That's why I don't lie about my age today. I can die happy with my memories!
I met him when he played here in Winnipeg. He was in the can in a blue track suit taking a breather between sets.We were the only 2 in there. We talked for an hour. He came by and sighned ny record along with his manager. This was at the first Get Together Festival. I was working at a record booth for The Autumn Stone record store. I still have it. That was so cool.
Come on now. Who of us still Tunining Into Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. Now in 2024.
Mitch is the Bomb, DETROIT ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Yeah!!
Motor City Madhouse, Rock On FOREVER !!!
Yessir
Put this band in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame for Christ sake!
What a redneck reply ....
I don't care how old this song is, this guy and his boys were BAD ASS.....Just plain BAD ASS....
Lead guitarist Jimmy McCarty just celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday (6/1/2020)...still looks great today! Happy Birthday, Jim!
I’m really digging listening to him and Johnny “Bee” Badanjek. (Drummer)
I am a fan of their band, the Rockets. I’ve been on a Detroit jag today.
Great player.
Love you Jimmy! Thanks for the licks!
Happy birthday dear Jimmy!
@@jamesweldon9726 I didn't know Jimmy and Johnny played with Mitch... but I did see them when they had the band The Rockets... Royal Oak Music Hall circa 1982ish..... fun times!
One of the greatest voices in rock and roll. Great band & energy that just explodes off the record or live.
ditto!!!!!!!!!
I was 14. Whew, they were hot, I mean smokin'
@@uveepoppy Yes they were and what a great singer Mitch was & still is. Those were the days my friend ... we thought they'd never end
This is one of those songs that never gets old.
In fact, if C.C. Rider came out today, it would top the charts.
Yes!
Jenny Jenny Jenny!!!
No, the Democrat controlled media would not distribute it, the band is toooo white, not enough diversity!
This isn’t CC Rider. This is Jenny take a ride.
@@dc10fomin65 Leave it alone already. Leave politics out of it, please.
saw Mitch in 70 in Sarasota Fl. I was a live recording enthusiast and wishing I had brought my 2 track equipment to record the show. I hooked up with the sound engineer touring with Mitch and I got him to allow me to record the show through the soundboard. Needless to say I was blown away. I set up back stage and at the end of the show with the audience stomping for more Mitch approached me backstage and asked me what I was doing. Told him 'recording your show, and with that he asked to put on my head phones so he could listen. BIG smile on his face saying it was fantastic and had the audience wait for a few minutes while he listened. Will never forget that evening! Thank you Mitch!
What did you do with the recording?
Mitch was a real Gentleman and Great Musical Talent. Bro, send me the postcard, wish I'd been there.
Saw them at the Ann Arbor Armory back in 67. It was my first concert and they SLAYED IT !!!! I had blisters on my feet from dancin' my ass off. I was 14 and will never forget that Mitch was so nice and talked me during the bands break. Jim McCarty even let me play his guitar. Mind was blown then and even now.
That is some epic shit!
I was in Ann Arbor twice this week.I deliver stuff.
sounds like a great memory
@@hmackie6823
Do you mean stuff or "'STUFF'" ? 🤔
ooo yeah! saw them in Roseville MI !!
nice..probably the best band ever.. the Wheels... they helped Mitch develop this style and sound...this band was the hardest hardest band to come down the pipe in the mid-sixties.. I saw a show in 1967 and Mitch blew a way the Who and Cream who opened for him. Also the Rascals, Wilson Picket, Blues Project, Chicago Loop and Ronnie Specter on the same bill. It was one continous show from morning till night.. General admission $3.50....
THIS was REAL rock and roll! nothing like it these days. detroit wheels. top that. dare you.
No way to top this!!!😀😀😀
There's plenty that tops this...Where the Hell have you been hiding? Smh.
This is fabulous I also love everything that came out of Detroit at that time stooges MC5 Nugent Bob seger
@@peboblank2786The Woolies and the Rationals were great Michigan bands of that era, also.
I would pick the Doors with Light My Fire. They even made Ed Sullivan angry at them.
This song gives me the chills! That gospel intro piano, drums and bass with lead guitar let's go to church!
no one compared to Mitch back then
was the epitome of a live singer
the Blacks in Detroit called him Blue eyed soul
it was a compliment
YEP ABSOLUTELY NO ONE.
America’s Eric Burden, Mitch Ryder; great voice!
Never thought of that, but you nailed it!
You are so right.
Burden is American as Russian borscht, he is English, Mitch is the original but even he is not from Detroit, but from somewhere in Michigan, take care Bud, greetings from Chicago, but this s probably the greatest " screaming rock " ever recorded, have a great Memorial Day! See See and C C ryder, check it out!
@@dc10fomin65 We know Burden is English. richwiz2's point was that Mitch is the American version of of Burden the Englishmen.
Yes, he is a answer to many young gal's dreams.
I wrote Sock it to me baby with the late Bob Crewe. I worked with the band several months prior to Crewe bringing them into the studio.
He knew what he had in Mitch and his brilliant band.
this track was by far my favorite. I loves have a smash and selling millions of records but this was the best record Mitch ever made.
L.Russell Brown
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Sock It To Me Baby was no slouch either, sir.
Nice to meet you, man
brother thank you for being born!!! wish we had more like you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@jason royale Yes, Jim McCarty of Cactus fame (later in the seventies). It's a shame they were never as popular as the Detroit Wheels. Well, they were with me anyway. One of my favorite guitar players.
Being from the Detroit area, we were so proud of them back then!
Being in Oklahoma. We Still Are Today in 2024.
From a 62 yoa black man this is the best example of "blue eyed soul" that I have ever heard!!! Ryder's singing is superb.
This is "the shit" right here!
It IS the shit, ain't it? That's cuz it has nothing to do with skin color...what it is is the sound of The Motor City in the 60's. That's exactly what that is right there....comin' thru loud, clear and with a whole lotta soul.....
Charles, I was from Greater Boston. And for YEARS!!! maybe even more than a decade -- I thought that Mitch WAS black!!! Fabulous voice. Sounds like a baritone with a brassy tinge to it.
wasnt rider latino?
You ever see Geils live? (Not sayin' better.)
Charles Watts how about the righteous brothers hey I am brother who even listen to country music has no colir
Man does this thing cook.....all the way across!!!! Damn. That drummer is trucking down the road. Good stuff.
I believe that was John Badanjek, who played with Jim McCarty on guitar, in their band the Rockets, in the seventies. Used to dance with their ladies, while they performed at the 24 Karat Club. They rocked, too!
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Mitch and The Wheels live back in the 60's. Jim McCarty was one the hottest guitar players in The Detroit Wheels that Mitch ever had. One of the most exciting groups to see in person ever!
I was raised in the Pentecostal church. This was the kind of music we had. Happy and joyful. Lots of hand-clapping and dancing in the aisles. Substitute a Hammond C3 and a Steinway for the lead and rhythm guitars and you're there.
This is the best version of this song. Amazing drummer and bass.
Spot on 5981! The rhythm section was solid!
My youngest uncle who's about 14 years older than me gave me the original album in the early 70s. I still have it and play it regularly. He got me into Zep and others when my dad only played country . Love that ol' Hank and Lefty Frizzel ,Pastry Cline though.
for me The Animals's version is the best ever
The invisible organist is fantactic! ;-)
Saw Mitch in a little dance hall in Louisiana about 30 years ago and believe it when I say he was still the man. He did the most _amazing_ slow bluesy Soul Kitchen. I’ll never forget it. His voice was more growly than it is here...sounded even more perfect for the material.
I saw these guys do this song live when I was about ten. It was a huge open air stage in Maryland next to the ocean and wasn't even a real concert, they had just been hired to provide some music as people walked around but I've never forgotten how excited I was when I heard this, I couldn't believe what I was hearing and seeing. They were the end of the world.
What a smokin band they were...Jim's solo is nuts, Johnny B is a freakin machine on the kit and, Mitch had a busload of soul and, an amazing and powerful voice...Sweet Baby Jesus
Geez at 15 years old, this is the best music I ever heard..... Was lucky that the parents bought a console. When they were not at home I cranked the volume.
Devil with a blue dress sent me into a trance. I used one 9v battery a day...
Stones etc under my pillow. Life was good !
Kids went crazy when this song came on in the sixties. Fun...
Mitch and the Wheels...burning down the house!
Rock and Roll as it should be. Never like that the guitars are not plugged in. If they wanted us to believe they were actually playing they should of had a cord plugged in.
The comment that kids went crazy when the song came on in the 60s is 100% correct. I was around 17 years old at the time, and my brother was 15. We had a close friend and his name was Mark. He was about 15 or 16 years old. When the three of us were together in my car going someplace, and if this song came on the radio, Mark would reach over and turn the volume up maximum. And that was only the beginning. His body would be moving back and forth so much that he would make the car rock back and forth. He would sing along with the lyrics. But really what he really liked doing, was to scream at the appropriate moments in a very soul or funk fashion - and man, was it loud. We tended to have all of the windows rolled down and people would stare at us from all directions. One of the things that I also vividly remember, was my fear of being pulled over by the police. This was extremely prevalent in my mind. It seemed like such chaos going on inside my car with this song blasting and Mark screaming like a lunatic, it was inevitable that sooner or later we would be stopped by the police and asked to get out of the car. Fortunately, that never happened. And we never turn down the volume when this song came on - we loved to hear Mark go completely crazy, and in reality, he simply could not control himself. Honestly, even though I enjoyed this tremendously, I was always frightened that I would see the blinking red lights in my rear-view mirror. And had the police ever been within hearing distance, I know they would've yanked this right out of the car. So, when Jack says that kids went crazy when the song came on, it is the absolute complete and total truth. There must've been hundreds of thousands of listeners around the world that responded the way in which Mark had - he simply became possessed by Mitch Ryder. It was truly magical.
I was one of those kids.
One of the rock-i-nest tunes ever! Can't over energize it!
This is the song that my friends and I jumped around to back then! Mitch Ryder always gave the most electrifying live performance!
Mitch Ryder rules. I saw an interview with him and he wrote a book recently and he is so intelligent and knowledgeable it was a pleasure to listen to him and he still performs. They were a very exciting band, and Mitch's voice is so unique. Could listen to him sing just about anything.
I was 12 years old when I used to pretend I was a gogo dancer dancing to this song. My favorite band, even more than The Beatles! Their music is still great music - who knew I had such good taste as a little kid?
ME ! - ✋
This song came out when I was 8...even at that point I was watching all the after school music and dance shows...and 50 years later, just a month ago the Trifecta of Rock...Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, and Mitch Ryder came through town. It was a great show...the next day, I left early for work and happened to drive past a hotel--where they were staying apparently...and there was Mitch himself sitting on a bench waiting for his airport ride. I jumped out of my vehicle and sat with him for about 20 minutes. The conversation was real and genuine. I think we covered most major social and cultural issues locally and nationally! It's a treat to have that kind of discussion with anyone, and to have it be with an icon of early rhythm and blues rock and roll...well, I would enjoy it again! Rock on!
Incredible. What an awesome story.
These men were an integral part of our Wilson Jr. High Youth Club. It was like a completely goofy unorganized uncoordinated 7-8-9 grade friday night gym dance. It was and will always be a highlight in my life. Thanks for memories Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.
Once again the bass is driving this song. Just an incredible job laying down the essence, the heart and soul of the song. YET, the camera gives him not one second of face time.
Bass....RELENTLESS here !!!!
Earl Elliot was on bass
And the B3 (or some facsimile) is always a good idea!!
You are so correct about ignoring the bass player as was so common back in the day, the camera work was horrible. Sometimes it was due to stationary equipment and the positioning of the musicians, but most times the camera was focused on the lead singer, or wrong musician because the cameraman was either a knot-head or caught up in the energy of the performance.
One of the all time great bands. Saw them at Winterland and they blew the place down.
Man I love this song, it moves everything in your body !!
If you truly love rock n' roll you recognize it the instant it hits your ears. This is the real thing.
The introduction has such a driving rhythm. It moves.
If this song doesn't make you move than you're dead!
dam right
***** Grew up watching him as well as Seger and many others in Detroit watching Swingin Time and club 1270
If this song doesn't make you move THEN you're dead!
stevie just bring the shovel and cover the MF up!!! life is made to live get up and boogie!!!!!!
Damn right squared. I met Mitch 30 years ago with Dick Biondi what a great show !!!!!
Played on the Wolfman Jack show from Rock Radio XERB from Tijuana, Mexico. 50.000 border blastin watts, heard all over Canada and the U.S.A. Thank god for the state of MICHIGAN, gave us Mitch and Bob Seger, plus all those great cars of the 30's 40's 50' 60' and early 70"s great accomplishment that!!!!!!!
Mitch Ryder had some great songs that were great to turn up in your muscle car if you were lucky enough to have one of those beast like a 69 roadrunner etc.
the all out Rock explosion. Mitch gave it all. he's legendary and true Detroit Motown phenom
The whole Michigan crew from the 50's 60s and 70s, were all legendary. Bob Seger, Iggy Pop and the stooges, frijid pink, MC five, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, and many others including, Bill Haley and his comets. I put Bill up there because many people don't know he was born in highland Park Michigan. But the explosion of rock'n roll in the 60s and 70s, al better part of that explosion was coming out of Michigan. And many people didn't realize it back then just as today not many know of the rock history out of Michigan. PS it's a damn shame. These Michigan musicians were not just rock'n rollers,, they were creating new genres of rock'n roll.
I'm about to turn 66 and I was there for all of it!
Happy birthday 🎂🍸
So was I, I just can't remember most of it.rowlffffff
Ami Young you bet!!! this is DETROIT rock and roll! nothing like it in the whole wide world!
I can still remember hearing it for the very time in the 60’s. It was shocking, because it was so different than listening to a Beatles song. Jim McCarty the guitar player was already a legend in the 60’s. He would go on to form the rock group Cactus. They are widely considered to be one of the pioneers of Heavy Metal loud music.
Excellent bass line. The guy deserved a lot of credit for their success.
I was lead guitarist in Collectors a soul band in central Kansas and we played gig in Hays Kansas in 1967 at the Dark Horse club. We were loading our stuff and Mitch Ryder was bringing there stuff in at same time. That was a Kodak moment but no Kodak. He was my favorite then and still is. My son and I went to hear him at Cotillion in Wichita about 10 years ago. I got a pick from Jim. Loved it.
A melhor versão que realmente representa o som e o balanço de uma diversão, uma festa, um estado de espírito... vale lembrar uma canção que me recordo quando dou minhas voltas boas de moto....
Saw him when it was the Mitch Ryder Show with his full brass section touring with him! Whoa!~ Still gives me chills just thinking how good the music was!
One of my best memories is seeing him in Va Beach, VA in the mid-60's with that horn section. I was a teenager, never seen a show with so much R & B power, swaggering horns, high energy.... Blew. Me. Away. Still think of that show almost 50-years later!
God Bless Detroit! It so sad that a city that has over and over again given it's heart and soul to everybody is now outcast. To have so many turn their back on this city. Shame! Detroit will survive in spite of you all.
Born and raised there but after 3 cars stolen, robbed twice I sad Fuk it and moved away.
The results of how you vote
Have you been to Detroit lately, and not just listened to the naysayers? It IS a thriving city, and it loves ALL its many musical influences, from Motown, to blues, gospel, jazz, blue eyed soul, even techno....it has problems, but don't all cities?
Roller Skated regularly to Mitch Ryder & the D Wheels & this song was a favourite!
I was 9 yrs old , and now that I'm 66 yrs young still remember hearing this on Philly's Famous 56 WFIL
Great 60’s music
Oh... uh oh... here it comes... I'm gonna dance.... holy crap, I'm dancing like a spinning top. Oh how I do miss good ole music like this!
If this song doesn't make you feel good nothing will. I wonder what would happen if they brought it back today
Mitch real name is Billy Levi and he was a regular person from the warrendale neighborhood in Detroit where I grew up. That's what made him who he was. His upbringing.
I saw Mitch Ryder at the Illinois State Fair as part of an oldie show. He looked like George Wallace with a ponytail. It was a great show!
Love this song.
Saw them in 1966 in a suburb outside Chicago playing in a like a parking lot. Was the greatest music I'd ever heard!
U said it!! Always liked Mitch Ryder! I’s in Detroit at the time! Motown!
mitch ryder doing a little james brown dancing action Love loved LOVED this group you will never see these types of awesome groups again we were very very lucky to have lived to enjoy
Killer
you bet jojo that's damn right!
Blue eyed soul
they were the best
jojo z
Transistor radio, berry fields, dancing not picking berries...bought 45 on the walk home from the field (after C.C.Rider I did pick berries) and played it on my crummy record player in my room...music will never sound that powerful or liberating again.
Such great memories. Remember going to the Village in downtown Detroit in the early 60's. Mitch was Billy Lee then, singing soul and R&B. He later formed Billy Lee & the Rivieras, which became Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.
First off, as a "transplanted" Detroiter, I LOVE Detroit. I'm originally from Toledo, but "the D" is my adopted hometown, and I love it. Great blue collar work ethic, great, proud attitude, very gritty, diverse ethnic pockets, restaurants, etc, great sports teams & fans, . It's a very maligned American city, which is a pity / crime.
I used to see ALL the Detroit bands either "live", or on Detroit TV ( Robin Seymour's "Swingin' Time"). Mitch Ryder always had great musicians around him. Jimmy McCarty ( talented enough to play on the Jimi Hendrix "posthumous" album, made up of charts Hendrix never got to finish: "Nine to The Universe" ), and Johnny B, an absolutely smokin' drummer. Mitch's band, Detroit: , which had a hit with Lou Reed's "Rock & Roll". All these musicians, in addition to Mitch Ryder who was a great singer in the "white soul voice" mold, always reinforce my sense of "Detroit pride" when it comes to contemporary music. I've listened to this track hundreds if not thousands of times, but it still makes me move,and makes me stir with Detroit pride. Absolutely timeless, and powerful!!!!!!
This song is AWESOME!!! And unluckily for me, I was not only alive but 15 years old in 1966 ..... so I remember when it first came out.
As an innocent teenager at the time I liked this, but I have to say that since then I have discovered 50s & 60s R&B which has so many numbers of equal greatness..Credits to these guys for picking up on it.
Sowas Geiles... man bedenke, wie lange das her ist! Der Mann kann singen mit ganzer Seele, super Stimme, und tanzen kann er auch.. Als man seinerzeit mehr zufällig solche Musik zu hören bekam, ging die Sonne auf... Es war einfach eine Offenbarung für junge Leute mit Gefühl für echte Musik, und das hält bis heute an. Thx Mich!
Saw him play with "his" band 20 years later in a small no-name Chicago bar and he put on a brilliant show.
The drums on this awesome. John (Johnny Bee) Badanjek could really whip up a storm. The guy was relentless! Mitch had others fill in for him sometimes, but it was never the same.
I saw him back in the 70's he was my first concert and I was in love....he's awesome
Loved these guys! I'd just joined the Navy when this came out. Only problem for a band like this was there was so much great competition at that time
CLASSIC. I still love this song. Another of my favorites. I remember listening to this song back in the 70's. Great soulful music for the heart and mind.
Great great band!
didnt get the recognition they deserved they were a great band
My parents and their friends a,ways played his songs!,, I still love all his songs and fond memories
My buddies and I saw him in 1966 at Cobo Hall in Detroit. It was a "Battle of the Bands" and he sang "Mustang Sally" as well as "Midnight Hour". Mitch was a big part of growing up days in Pontiac, Michigan. I listened to his records over and over until I nearly wore out the record needle.
Truly one of the greatest songs of all time
lollmfaoff.
this is what rock and roll is all about
Love this music brings me back to my elementary school days in NYC Dyckman street beautiful days johnsitico
This song reminds me of college, I was the Devil with the Blue dress On. This is a great song ,has a great beat . I love dancing to this song.
Classic! Saw them in the 70's live at the Avalon Ballroom in Chicago. Go Detroit!! Go Mitch and your Wheels!
Wonderful lineup of great recordings! Love 💕 them very much!!
I met Mitch Ryder back in '67. A great guy! We had dinner at Lionel Bart's house in London and he was a perfect gentlemen. He should be in the R&R Hall of fame.
I saw them at The Mosque in Richmond, Va when they were a backup for the Dave Clark Five. They left the DC5 in the dust.
Wish there was a similar clip on CZcams of Devil With The Blue Dress On. It was a massive hit in the States but sadly did nothing in the UK. I think it's an amazing track.
THERE IS. LOOK HARDER.
@@larrysuekov5830 It can be heard but the clip shows them performing Jenny Take A Ride.
Dave: I've looked at the Jennny Take a Ride clip. There are several versions done by Mitch Ryder. I've also listened to Devi With The Blue Dress On and it was Devil With A Blue Dress ON. It's there. I promise. I hope you can find it. Try searching for the song itself, or Mitch Ryder. Good luck my friend.
@@larrysuekov5830 There are 2 clips where it's listed as Devil etc but they're miming to Jenny. You can tell by the drumming for starters. Those brilliant fill-ins aren't there and i can tell by his snare drum work that it isn't Devil. I'm an ex-druimmer. Also you can tell that Mitch isn't singing Devil. Watch his lips. Over to you.
absolutely amazing ,what a band .
Born to sing Rock N Roll. He was a GREAT singer, without a doubt. Didn't like seeing him sing when he got older. With his kind of voice I think it kind of blows out after not to long a time. I was just thinking of him the other day after hearing one of commentaries of the rock god Robert Plants voice, and how great it was and all that. Then I started think about all of the rock singers I could think of who's voices I thought were better. MItch Ryder came to mind.. Yeah, I know they are different styles. I still think MItch Ryder is better and,oh yes, cooler too.
What a cookin band!! I was in high school in the 60s, and am having so much fun finding these great tunes on videos here! Wow!! Most of the "videos" from that time were from TV shows. where I grew up only had 1 channel so TV was never a big thing for me, so it's great to see them now!
The 60s and 70s were such a great time to be young! We had so much fun in those days, the music was great - inspired by mind expanding substances and plants haha!! And there was so much of it, every week some great new band or song coming out!! Everyone danced! That's why I don't lie about my age today. I can die happy with my memories!
Used to love, wait...for this to come on the radio
Robin Seymour’s Swingin’ Time. Best rock ‘n’ roll tv show ever. And here’s why!
These cat's threw down the gaunlet, soul, r and b ,funk, and Rock and roll
I met him when he played here in Winnipeg. He was in the can in a blue track suit taking a breather between sets.We were the only 2 in there. We talked for an hour. He came by and sighned ny record along with his manager. This was at the first Get Together Festival. I was working at a record booth for The Autumn Stone record store. I still have it. That was so cool.
CC Ryder is a classic blues number that somebody rocked up!
I love 'em. The production of these songs is usually overlooked as an important reason for their excellence.
Never missed Swingin' Time. This was arguably the best band to come out of Detroit.
They played salem armory salem oregon !!what a time. Mitch was killing it. Get it
The great Jimmy McCarty on lead guitar.
Yes!!!!
touchdownten I thought that’s who that was. I remember him being real tall and could absolutely play his ass off !!! What a treat!
And Joe Kubert
So do you know who that base player is? He's the one that elevated this song from good to great.
My first question and you answered it right off the bat first comment (6 years ago after your post) lol
THE KING OF BLUE EYED SOUL, MR. MITCH RYDER!
+Kirk Kimball-Martinez Don't forget to add Bill Medly, Bobby Hatfield, Michael MacDonald to the court.
Van Morrison, bob Seger, rusty day ,mark farmer.
Farner.
The best first 45 seconds ever recorded!!!!!!!
awesome.....love the bass line , and back grounds....and of course the leads...
Love that guitar intro and this song rocks!!!!
Swinging Time! Robin Seymore! If you grew up in Detroit or Windsor in the 60's you know what I'm saying!
As a child if the fifties I grew up with the best music.
60’s 70’s 80’s & 90’s 🎶🎼🎵🎤🎸🎹
Mitch Ryder had a superb voice for rock and roll. The band must have a great time doing this song live too.
Great cover of a great song that I've liked since first hearing it on AM rock back in the mid 60s. I also love the Animals version.