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Apologies for the Audio/Video sync issue on this one! This was one we couldn't get fixed
I needed this to pop up..my last reaction watched…tears in heaven by Clapton..uggh. I need a smile.
This is the radio version. If you can, listen to the album version. It's a bit longer with more guitar work.
Named my Benz SLK , Black Betty 😊
May I suggest some Post Modern Jukebox? Enjoy!! Don't Stop Believin' – Journey (ONE TAKE Vintage Postmodern Jukebox Cover) https://youtu.be/UngXu2zwF9E (my introduction to PMJ), I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For – U2 (Gospel Soul Cover) ft. Rogelio Douglas, Jr. https://youtu.be/8EbLlgKFk9c and Dancing in the Dark – Retro '50s Style Bruce Springsteen Cover ft. Von Smith https://youtu.be/X-Ziw_TwXrM . Then,
"All About that Bass" with Casey Abrams, Haley Reinhart, Morgan James & Ariana Savalas (Telly's daughter) https://youtu.be/aLnZ1NQm2uk , Haley Reinhart, Morgan James & Ariana Savalas "Burn" Sydney Australia – https://youtu.be/q5E2IsozXBQ then Morgan & PMJ's cover of "Dream On" – https://youtu.be/Yq4KA0mUnC8 , "Maps" https://youtu.be/8gO_lxThc1M and "I Really Don't Care" https://youtu.be/EddjOiFcp9Y . Morgan and Haley cover "Dear Prudence" https://youtu.be/wv_Xhzwvjyg is also a must! Then down the rabbit holes of Morgan and Haley's other tunes on-line. You will not be disappointed…
Bout a rifle called black betty
ohh, Black Betty, panda lamp, whoooa Black Betty, panda lamp
This a very old song. Muddy Waters has a version of this. There is a video of chaingang prisoners singing it as a work song in the 30’s. A lot of argument over the meaning.
Surprise…it's not about a woman!! It's about a civil war musket rifle and they made a replica that didn't shoot straight, hence the "child was blind". 🎵🎼🎶🎤🎙🥁🎹🎸🔥🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥
It is a black culture prison song. If you like this era of music you will love this 1969 song by Grand Funk Railroad, titled, Inside Looking Out, https://youtu.be/NxcOxvEsE_Y I'm a old Michigan girl and these guys are a Michigan band. Got their name from Grand Trunk Railroad in Flint.
Ram Jam is always invited to the BBQ
When Bill Bartlett was interviewed, he said that when he wrote the last two verses, adding to Leadbelly’s original, that his version of the song was about Betty Page, who was a white 1950s pinup girl. He said he’s not sure who or what Leadbelly was writing about, that was anybody’s guess but his was about Betty Page.
Black Betty was the name called for speed, usually in a black capsule
I read it's about a well loved musket, but the "child" was a smaller gun that had a sight that was inaccurate, so not a straight shooter, (damn thing gone blind"). "bam-a-lam".
The album has the unedited long version. You guys rock.
Just fire up the Grill and have a Jam.
i am telling you as a black guy i loved this song! and that was all i took from it is as they ampied a song that been made years before and it is a very old song! and made it a groove!
A wedding song!!! Haaaaaaaaaaaa
Nice, an interesting thing about this vid it only cost a few hundred $ to make.
The album version has a long solo in the middle to show how good they can play…..why it's so short
Oh I'm sure you've heard it before at some sporting event as it's still played to pump up the crowd.
version by spiderbait an aussie band is great a little bit heavier than this
Ram Jam was pretty much a one-hit-wonder, but boy what a one hit it was. FM radio wore it out and no one could resist tapping a foot, shaking an ass, or singing along if they were within earshot when the song came on the radio!
Well the orginal black betty is very old, if you want a better more modern version check out the band Spiderbaits version of – Black Betty , a band from no other than Australia land of some of the best rock bands in the world
Check out the later hard rockin' cover by Spiderbait.
It was used in Maverick with Tom Cruise
No time to be trying to be politically correct😮 I remember this song back in the,,70's. It was not about a girl with black hair it was about a ebony sister and a caucasian brotha that could not get enough of her. Just like the song from the rolling Stones in the 70's called some girls. Which George Clinton and Parliament funkadelic took offense to it. And created a response to it in one of their albums. And one of my favorites. Called black licorice. From Grand funk railroad. The drummer sang it. His name was Don Brewer. And everybody knows from back in the day that you should have benefited from now. That he was not singing about physical candy itself. But about a beautiful ebony that was kicking his ass in the bedroom you should react to it. Especially the live version video. Don goes off. Coming out of the 60s and free love. They were coming out of the closet so to speak. You all seem to be intelligent people. So please do not perpetualate a lie to think you don't know what is going on. Why do you think we have all these mixed babies around here. It's beautiful.😅 Interracialness this was going on at that time out front. And people were singing on that point.😊 And to think Elvis has something to do with this😮❤…. No he had everything to do with this. Caucasians hated hated him for being soulful. Which he got out of the black church and blues folk. And country singers and hillbilly singers. All of that was interracial in a way musically and culturally. All that turn turned physically❤❤😂
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black betty was a musket and the child was the bullet the child was blind and wild it means the bullets would go astray and hit something or someone not the person they aimed at and thay were made in birmingham alabama the smell of the gun powder got them high.i majored in the civil war
These guys were known only for this song. Saw them in a bar in CT late 70s. People there only wanted to hear this song. They were visibly upset as they were basically background for bodily functions. Also this is a short version.
Yes REACTORS 👍🏼 love to see 👁️ your react on Ram Jam "Black Betty" And its like you say its a cover from way way back its a old song as prisoners sang when they work as RAILROADS in the states.1930 ..But the cover by Ram Jam is blending cool and has to bee a lucky day when the Gibsons guitar get exatly the right temperature in the air..same as the drums..And a just lucky day for the RAM JAM band because the rest they made was not near this performance… VERY strange but true. 🇸🇪❤️🇺🇲❤️🇸🇪
There is a longer version of this song where Bill Bartlett really shows off his guitar skills.
I saw an interview with the lead singer, and the first part is an old blues song. The second and third verses were written by him, and it was about Betty Page, his favorite pin-up model. So it's actually two songs in one.
Betty page ou the car
About 250.00 on production cost back in the day but it worked.
SO.ROCK ( …what ah concept …) hey ! TWA awaits you…( the warning army )…
Classic 70’s rock with a bit of funk mixed in
sorry guys Black Bettys are a reference for speed truckers talk. this was the 1977
Black Beauty a Drug, Black Betty is a Musket but double meaning
Black Betty is the song that you can’t help but dance to every time you hear it! I’ve been grooving to it since it came out in the70’s!
Filmed in their backyatd in Long Islsnd NY!
By the way, besides being a rockin tune, Black Betty is the name of what is reputed to be the best cheese in the world, an aged gouda sometimes also called Brabander (since it's from the Dutch region Brabant). Betty is the name of the cheeses 'ager,' and it's wrapped in black wax. Only available seasonally, and few stores carry it in the US
I do absolutely LOVE this video, but I like the occaisional times that reactors do the album version, which is a bit longer, and ROCKS
Black Betty is a flintlock musket, Bam -ba lam is the intial igniting of the shot (bam) before the shot itself (balam). Black Betty had a child (bullet), the damn things gone wild (flintlocks weren't rifled so the shot had no real direction unlike a rifled bullet that flies straight because its spinning), She said I'm worrying outta mind (refers to the shot going everywhere except where its supposed to go), damn things gone blind (Misses the target). Verse 2 is about a girl. Great song and video at the back of someones house. One hit wonder!