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Greatest Songs, #428: “Devil With a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly” by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels

Year: 1966
Written by: William Stevenson, Shorty Long, John Marascalco, & Robert “Bumps” Blackwell
Billboard Hot 100: #4

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One of the original Detroit garage rockers, Ryder revved up a pair of Little Richard songs into a hit medley. The next time Little Richard played Detroit, he saw Ryder in the front row. “He got his break in the business with two of my songs,” Richard recalled. “I got him up to take a bow.”

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