CYNTHY-RUTH was chosen as number one hundred of "The Best 100 Songs To Come Out of Detroit Ever!" by The Detroit Metrotimes see link below
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12036
Considering the competition (which you can checkout at the link above) it's very significant that the song made the list at all, because it didn't come into a greater public awareness until around 1997 or 2000, and then only as a cult record. It didn't get much airplay or sell millions of records, when it was originally released in 1970.
So in a sense being chosen as "the one hundredth best song to ever come out of Detroit", is almost like being chosen the number one best song ever...do ya feel me? Dig what they wrote about "Cynthy-Ruth" below. VC L. Veasey
100 "Cynthy-Ruth" Black Merda (Chess) 1970
The inventors of a bluesy, fuzz-drenched strain of psychedelic funk they dubbed "Black Rock," the band that would become Black Merda formed at Western High School and soon found themselves playing on records by everyone from Nathaniel Mayer ("I Had a Dream") to Edwin Starr ("Agent Double O Soul"). After having their minds blown by Muddy Waters' 1968 Electric Mud LP — and getting themselves signed to the label that released it — they waxed "Cynthy-Ruth," with lyrics as bitterly unforgiving as its guitars were bone-crushing. Black Merda is currently at work on a new album.