Rev Up: Best of

Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 26, 1989)
• Original Release Date: November 21, 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B0000032RU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,025 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #57 in Music > R&B > Soul > Blue-Eyed Soul

Track Listings

1. Jenny Take a Ride!

2. Little Latin Lupe Lu

3. Shakin' With Linda

4. I Like It Like That

5. I Had It Made

6. Break-out

7. Shake a Tail Feather

8. Just A Little Bit [*]

9. Takin' All I Can Get [*]

10. You Get Your Kicks [*]

11. Sticks and Stones [*]

12. Baby Jane (Mo-Mo Jane) [*]

13. Joy [*]

14. Devil With a Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly

15. Sock It to Me-Baby!

16. Too Many Fish in the Sea/Three Little Fishes

17. I'd Rather Go to Jail

18. Liberty

19. Long Neck Goose

20. Rock & Roll

Editorial Reviews

Sizzling sides by this seminal Detroit punk/soul rocker, including tracks cut with his legendary '70s outfit, Detroit.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT RIDE FROM A KILLER R & B BAND!, October 8, 2001

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Patrick Earley (Edmond, Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rev Up: Best of (Audio CD)

During a very fertile 2 year period from 1965-67 this band really cranked out the hits with "Jenny Take A Ride", Little Latin Lupe Lu", "Shake A Tailfeather", and "Devil With A Blue Dress On" just to name a few. All these songs and a whole lot more appear on this excellent Best Of. This is some great rockin' R&B that, for me, never gets old and stale. It's not the soft Barry Gordy type R&B. It's that other Motown sound that you might hear playing if you took a walk through a Detroit auto plant, or paid a visit to the local neighborhood beer tavern. If you like the type of raucous R&B that Springsteen cranked out some 10 years later, look no further. The Boss even used to cover Ryder's "Good Golly Miss Molly/Devil With A Blue Dress On" medley for his encore in his live shows. Unfortunatly, you just knew something this good couldn't last long. After all this quick success, a knucklehead of a music producer convinced Mitch Ryder to leave the Wheels and go solo so he could become a star. Well, that didn't happen. But eventually Ryder at least had the good sense to form the Detroit Wheels one more time in 1971. He got back his original guitar player Jimmy McCarty and his drummer Johnny Bee Badanjek, who is considered one of the alltime best drummers in rock and roll history, together for their swansong "Detroit" album. From this album comes the final two killer songs that rock harder than anything on here. "Long Neck Goose" and the classic "Rock And Roll". Rev It Up is by far the best greatest hits package from Mitch Ryder, and I think one of the best ever comps by Rhino Records. A generous 20 tracks of some of the most aggressive, butt-kicking, 4 on the floor, rockin' R&B you'll ever hear. Highly recommended!

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WARNING!!! High voltage performance, June 1, 2004

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Paul Tognetti "The real world is so much more... (Cranston, RI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rev Up: Best of (Audio CD)

Think back to the music scene in the mid 1960's and to all of that energy! There was music by The Beatles, the British Invasion and all those dynamite tunes being cranked out by Motown. But there was another group on the scene that somehow managed to crank it up yet another notch. Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels exploded onto the scene in late 1965 and over the next 18 months had a fabulous run of raucus, driving hit records that included "Jenny Take A Ride", "Sock It To Me Baby", a remake of Bill Medley's "Little Latin Lupe Lu" and of course the big one "Devil With A Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly." Yes, the future appeared bright for this white soul-rock outfit from the Motor City. Yet for some inexplicable reason producer Bob Crewe had other ideas.

In 1967, Crewe decided that Ryder could be more successful as a solo artist. He apparently had grandiose visions of Ryder as some sort of balladeer. So he sent the Detroit Wheels packing and promptly recorded a new album with Mitch Ryder entitled "What Now My Love". It was dreadful. The critics hated it and no one--I MEAN NO ONE--bought the thing. The album never even cracked Billboard's "Top Pop 200 Albums" chart.

Shortly thereafter Ryder terminated his contract with Bob Crewe and attempted to re-group. He went to Memphis and recorded a decent album with Booker T and the MGs and a short time later returned to his home city and formed a new band aptly called Detroit. But his moment in the sun had passed and Ryder was never able to regain the form that made him so very popular during that 18 month period. "Rev Up: The Best of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels from Rhino gives you six of his seven chart hits with the Detroit Wheels and also includes "Liberty" a real soulful cut from that Memphis recording with Booker T. Also included on this disc are two tunes from Mitch with his new group Detroit. These were not bad records really but something was missing and the group just never caught on. As is usually the case with Rhino "Rev Up: The Best of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels" also includes some very informative liner notes. Highly recommended!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars REV UP is right!, October 26, 2004

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William J. Eichelberger "I will not go quietly" (Ft. Thomas, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rev Up: Best of (Audio CD)

I slipped this disc into the cd player in my van one night while waiting for one of my kids to finish soccer practice and kind of lost myself in the music. When I found myself, I was flailing around the interior of the van, bellowing "Sock It To Me, Baby" at full volume with the windows closed.
And I wasn't alone.
There at the passenger's window stood the woman who oversees the school's Girl Scout/Brownie troops. At the time I was serving as the assistant troop leader to my daughter's Brownie troop, and I think she was wondering just what she'd gotten her Brownies into that night.
No real moral to this story. Suffice to say that there's enough high energy music on this disc to make your purchase of it worthwhile.