The Wheel-A-Ways

The Wheel-A-Ways were actually a pseudonym from the Tires, an excellent but small Irish music group that laid down some extremely Them-like tracks in the mid-1960s. When the Tires’ original quantity “Bad Little Female” premiered in america around the Aurora label in 1966, Aurora place it out beneath the name from the Wheel-A-Ways, in order to avoid misunderstandings with Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Tires. The irony is usually that decision continues to be the reason for much misunderstandings among devoted English Invasion collectors after that, causing uncertainty concerning if the Wheel-A-Ways had been the same music group as the Tires. It would happen to be a straightforward matter to see whether the edition of “Poor Little Female” around the Wheel-A-Ways’ solitary was exactly like the main one the Tires experienced released on Columbia in the united kingdom in 1966. But no! It wasn’t; it had been a superior, much less restrained alternate consider from the same track. The liner records towards the compilation Belfast Defeat Maritime Blues, nevertheless, concur that the Tires as well as the Wheel-A-Ways had been actually the same music group. Furthermore important, however, would be that the Wheel-A-Ways’ edition of “Poor Little Female” is usually a killer track. One of the better obscure British middle-1960s R&B songs, it really is an inverted, ominous undertake the “Gloria” riff and tempo, accelerated right into a crazy bashing rave-up with screaming vocals, after that cool down with lone, creepy slides down a acoustic guitar, answered with a lonesome harmonica. It had been included in the Shadows of Knight, who in some way got subjected to either the Tires’ or the Wheel-A-Ways’ edition, for a little hit in america. The Wheel-A-Ways’ rendition of “Poor Little Girl” was reissued on some choices of obscure United kingdom Invasion music, but shows up in its greatest sound quality in the Big Defeat compilation Belfast Defeat Maritime Blues, which anthologizes middle-1960s R&B-rock music from many Belfast groupings. Belfast Defeat Maritime Blues also contains the tamer edition of “Poor Little Girl” that was acknowledged to the Tires on the 1966 British one, aswell as ten various other songs with the Tires, extracted from their UK singles and unreleased outtakes.