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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.
Profile: Rock and Soul band from Detroit, Michigan, USA, formed in 1964. They served as Mitch Ryder 's backup band from 1964 to 1967, when Ryder was enticed away by Bob Crewe with offers of a solo career, after which The Detroit Wheels recorded a handful of singles, then quickly dissolved.
1962 startete er seine eigene Band Billy Lee & The Rivieras. 1965 änderte die Gruppe, die kurz zuvor aus Detroit nach New York gezogen war, ihren Namen auf Anraten ihres Manager Bob Crewe in Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels.
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The Rivieras became The Detroit Wheels and album cover photos of the band on top of oil cans or surrounded by discarded tires punched the automotive image home. What followed was a wild two-year ride trough the starmaking machinery of the record industry that brought them fame but no fortune and tore the group apart in the process. Not that the ...
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels performing in 1966. In December 1966, producer Bob Crewe's vision for Mitch as a blue-eyed soul singer backed by a horn band (a la Wilson Pickett, Joe Tex, etc.) was put into motion. They assembled a 10 piece band of white R&B musicians: from Baltimore, Maryland; Jimmy Wilson (trumpet), Bob Shipley ...
The Detroit Wheels. Profile: Short-lived line-up of Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels without Mitch Ryder when the latter was enticed away by Bob Crewe with offers of a solo career, after which the group quickly dissolved. Two of its former members, Jim McCarty (2) and Johnny Badanjek, later reunited to establish the nucleus of a new band called ...
