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| | RYDER Mitch & the Detroit Wheels : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | USA group of '60s formed by Mitch Ryder (b William Levise, '45, Hamtramack MI), who'd been brought up in Detroit on fl music, sang in fl quartet the Peps until harassment drove him out. |
 | | After sojourn in L.A., returned to to form Billy Lee and the Rivieras, with himself as vocalist Lee, Jim McCarty on guitar, Earl Elliott on bass, John Badanjek on drums, adding Joe Kubert on rhythm guitar from Levise's high school group the Tempest (all b '47-8; Kubert d 19 June '91). |
 | | Came back on Dot with The Detroit-Memphis Experience '69, backed by Booker T And The MGs, but it didn't sell; he formed Detroit with Badanjek, five others for an eponymous LP; submerged to write songs with his wife Kimberley, paint, write a novel. |
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