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Mitch Ryder: From The Detroit To The Top Ten

Fred Dellar, The History of Rock, 1983

Mitch Ryder meant guts, sweat, bump 'n' grind. His skin was white but he sounded black. He came from Detroit and he should have worked for Motown. But he didn't. He was all wrong but he was all right.

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