This is exactly the way it was in the 70's everyone enjoyed everyone's company with backyard barbecues, block parties was a great time to be living in I was 17 when this came out.
Bill Bartlett is s humble man, know him, he can still rock that guitar, he still has that guitar that's on this video,he was also in the Lemon Piper's, Green Tambourine
@@brianglade848 that makes me sad. But there’s at least one thing that’s true, this song practically immortalizes him. That’s more than can be said for my life and most of people, period. He gave a lot of people a lot of joy, for nearly five decades. I hope he’s satisfied with his life because we love this performance in our house, and clearly, millions feel the same.❤️
Songs were shorter back in the day!!!! All they needed was beer, babes, bikes, music and weed to do this backyard jam session!!!! Southern Rock at its best!!!!🎶🎼🎵🎤🎸🥁🤘🤘🤘🤘
I've watched 20 reactions to this, and *every time* half way through the first verse everyone is smiling or laughing with joy, by the third verse everyone is bam-ba-lamin"
I love this song.. first heard it in the Movie "BASIC" at the dinner scene.. hearing about this band.. the long history of the song and mixed up lyrics from all over with meanings that are definitely in the ear of the beholder.. but for me it's Just fun!.
Black Betty is actually a very old song ... the oldest recordings of this song go back to the 1930’s ... the song itself likely goes back into the 1800’s. There are a few versions of what “Black Betty” actually means ... it is a reference to a civil war era gun -- a “musket” called a Black Betty ... it is also a reference to a bottle of whisky from the 1700’s (this came to this country from England possibly as far back as the 1700’s), in fact, an old term for being drunk is to have been "Kissing Black Betty" (kissing a bottle of liquor). and, as you can hear in the song, Black Betty is also a reference to a woman. The version sung by Ram Jam, if you listen closely. seems to have reference to all three ... to a woman .. to liquor (or a bottle of liquor) and to the gun - the "bam a lam" is a reference to how the musket sounds when fired. btw There’s a lot of info on Wikipedia about this song. In the earliest version of the song, like many roots music songs, Black Betty was also sung as an old African American work song ... sang when working in the fields ... or when "dancing on the rails" as a "Gandy" (work straightening railroad tracks by hand).
