Mitch Ryder

The Detroit-Memphis Experiment

Born

26 February 1945, Hamtramck, MI, United States

Member of

Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Detroit

Also Known As

William S. Levise, Jr. [birth name], Billy Lee

Genres

Pop Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Rock, Blues Rock, Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll

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Discography

124

Credits 7 Filmography 1

Album

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3.34

30
2

What Now... My Love...

1967

3.72

25
1

Mitch Ryder Sings the Hits

1968

3.47

86
5

The Detroit-Memphis Experiment

1969

3.35

67
2

How I Spent My Vacation

1978

2.93

41
3

Naked but Not Dead

1979

3.35

41
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Got Change for a Million?

1981

3.33

48
2

Live Talkies

1981

3.05

28
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Smart Ass

1982

3.55

60
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Never Kick a Sleeping Dog

1983

3.05

19
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In the China Shop

1986

3.78

21
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Red Blood, White Mink

1988

2.99

15
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La Gash

1992

3.12

9
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Rite of Passage

1994

1.77

4
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Monkey Island

1999

3.78

9
1

A Dark Caucasian Blue (& Engerling)

2004

2.65

5
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The Acquitted Idiot (& Engerling)

2006

3.26

5
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You Deserve My Art (& Engerling)

2007

3.33

13
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Detroit Ain't Dead Yet (The Promise)

2009

2.37

5
1

Devil With Her Blue Dress Off

2009

-
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Stick This in Your Ears

2017

2.69

3
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Christmas (Take a Ride)

2018

3.35

4
1

Detroit Breakout!

2019

3.08

6
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Georgia Drift

2023

3.37

5
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The Roof Is on Fire

2024

Live Album

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3.00

2
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Live at the Logo Hamburg

1996

3.73

6
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The Old Man Springs a Boner

2002

3.66

6
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Air Harmonie. Live in Bonn 2008

2009

3.50

1
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Easter in Berlin: Live in concert 1980 [archival]

2011

4.14

2
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Live at Rockpalast 1979 + 2004 [archival]

2012

3.08

3
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It's Killing Me

2013

-
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Live in Ann Arbor

2016 • Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels

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Little Latin Lupe Lu

1966

-
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Joy

1967

3.22

2
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We're Gonna Win

1980

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That's the Way It's Gonna Be / Fool for You

1962 • Billy Lee

3.00

1
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You Know / Won't You Dance With Me?

1964

3.50

5
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Joy / I'd Rather Go to Jail

1967

4.00

2
-

Ruby Baby & Peaches on a Cherry Tree / You Get Your Kicks

1967

3.82

5
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Sock It to Me - Baby! / Jenny Take a Ride [Hip-Pocket 4"]

1967

2.72

4
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You Are My Sunshine / Wild Child

1967 • Mitch Ryder / Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels

3.69

3
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Joy / I'd Rather Go to Jail

1967

2.48

7
1

What Now My Love / Blessing in Disguise

1967

-
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The Lights of Night / I Need Loving You

1968

2.33

2
1

You've Got Personality & Chantilly Lace

1968

4.00

1
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Baby I Need Your Loving / Ring Your Bell

1969

2.50

1
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Sugar Bee / I Believe (There Must Be Someone)

1969

3.78

2
-

I Can't See Nobody / Girl From the North Country

1971

4.22

2
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It Aint Easy / Long Neck Goose

1971

4.41

2
1

Rock and Roll / Box of Old Roses

1972

3.86

4
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Freezin' in Hell / Long Hard Road

1979

3.75

8
2

Rock and Roll / Soul Kitchen

1982

3.62

8
1

When You Were Mine

1983

2.00

2
1

Like a Rolling Stone / Can Do

1985

3.50

1
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Good Golly Ask Olly

1987

3.50

2
1

Do You Feel Alright?

1992

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3.21

134

134
3

Born to Laugh at Tornadoes

1983 • Album • Was (Not Was)

3.23

3
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Professor Night / Bow Wow Wow Wow

1984 • Single • Was (Not Was)

Compilation

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3.80

37
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All Mitch Ryder Hits!

1967

3.86

3
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All the Heavy Hits

1967

3.51

4
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All the Real Rockers Come From Detroit

1980

2.67

3
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Greatest Hits

1981

3.59

5
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Look Ma , No Wheels

1981

3.52

5
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Ryder.: The Very Best of Mitch Ryder

1992

-
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Rock & Roll

1998

4.00

2
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Red Scar Eyes [live]

2006

3.50

1
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Live Talkies Plus one Extra Live Concert Easter in Berlin 1980

2011

3.25

2
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The Anthology 1979-1994

2012

V/A Compilation

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2.99

3
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Journey Through the 60's

1974

3.91

26
2

Michigan Rocks

1977

3.95

34
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The Sound of the Sixties

1983

3.90

5
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Classic Rock - Volume Two

1988

3.48

14
1

Sixties Archives Vol. 1: The Sound of the Sixties

1991

3.57

10
1

Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt

1993

3.59

7
1

Eclipsed at Rockpalast [live]

2008

3.68

15
-

Jon Savage's 1969-1971 Rock Dreams on 45

2019

2.72

2
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Good Vibrations

1973

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Popular Songs

1969 • Joe South / Tommy Roe / Mitch Ryder / Steppenwolf

2.50

1
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Appears on: Voyages Into... Garage (Vol. 1)

2005 • Various Artists

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European Tour, Roth Kulturfabrik, 2004 [live]

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3.83

5
1

At Rockpalast [live]

2004

Mitch Ryder

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