You guys are AWESOME!!! Thank you all for voting this one in, our closest Poll EVER, the top 3 picks were at 29%, 30%, 31% at one point! We will def hit those other songs sometime!! Make sure to VOTE in the poll today!! Cheers guys thank you again for this BANGER!!! 🙌🏻🔥
hahahaha Something similar to this happened to me once. I had Foghat's Slow Ride as a ringtone for my husband. I forgot to turn off the ringer and it went off at a very inopportune time. Everyone around me almost fell out laughing.
I hope they do both the studio version then the backyard video. Still only seven minutes total between the two. They've done single songs a lot longer than that!
Been on that train for months. You can add, Stop, Woman, and if they want to do a bit more of a ballad, Ashes, the rain and I, or Collage is just wonderful as well.
@@michaelbochnia5686 Agree 100% on James Gang and early Walsh. My favorite album is his debut solo album, fairly obscure...."Barnstorm", although there is a version of "Turn to Stone" on that album.
@@karlsmith2570 yes, but which video? Short haired, mustached Burton decked out in a white suit, white shoes and black shirt on The Midnight Special? Or the long haired, fresh-faced, black garbed Burton from a grainy 1970 video?
@@df5295 Often credited to him but it's an old folk song. There is a 1933 recording of a chain gang singing it while they work, several years before his recording. Like most songs that originated in folk as you trace it back at some point you have to decide when it stops being the same song.
This song is A+ on the banger scale. It's insane how good it is. And it's not insanely difficult to play, but it's just so well composed. Perfect song in every way.
This is a cover of an African American,(Slave work song). I suggest "Leadbelly" version. cirva 1911!!(video on You Tube) "Leadbellys" wrote material covered by Led Zeppelin, The Animals,, Creedence,Nirvana and more.
Once or twice. I remember the song playing all night long. Someone set it up on a real to real and it just played over and over and over again. Those were the days. Can we have a moment silence for living our very best freaking lives in the 70s. Every day was a kegger.
I’ve never heard this track with that prolonged instrumental/solo break in the middle before, but it was like ‘Radar love’ on speed. Pretty damn good 👍🏼
Full, embarrassing disclosure: I was in FM rock radio in '77 when the 12" single of this (in an unmarked sleeve with no photos) came into the station. Two phrases were on the label with no promo from Epic/CBS on who/what. So, I thought I was holding the new single, "Ram Jam" by Black Betty. "Wow, can't wait to hear what SHE sounds like!" Don't hurt me.
This song is a driving locomotive of unstoppable machinery... ...but GENESIS "Firth Of Fifth" will blow you away. One of the greatest keyboard solos backed up by one of the greatest guitar solos all rolled into a glorious package. Give it a go, boys!
I am a HUGE Genesis fan and have been pushing them to do old Genesis for months. I'm getting ready to send them a cop of at least The Lamb, and maybe a few other old Genesis CD's as well.
This is the first time I've heard the extended version. Other reactors have used the shorter 'live' version. This totally rocks! Thanks for doing the album cut.
This is a "Somebody glued my gas pedal to the floorboard" song. "Black Betty" has many meanings, and there was a song with the "Bam A Lam" verse in it.
FYI: "Black Betty" is an old slave chant sung by hands in the cotton fields and chain gangs from the old prisons. It was first recorded by Huddy William "Leadbelly" Ledbetter.
Really? Ole Leadbelly recorded this? Wow! Didn't know that!...I know he did Goodnight Irene & the Governor of Louisisana pardoned him from jail when he wrote it...& I think he did the song The Midnight Special too.
I need a link for the slave chant claim. There are a references it to being a chain gang song. More specifically, the whip. I've also seen references to a marching - cadence about a flint-lock musket with a black stock.
@@independenceltd. Not sure which video it was, but one of those on RU-vid on the history of the blues...couple of years ago...memory could be wrong, but it does fit the classic call and response pattern of the old African chants that formed the basis of slave chants, gospel, blues, and jazz. AS for the military story, very possible that one is the source of the other. I.e. slaves heard it from troops marching, or troops picked it up from hearing slaves (or prisoners) in the fields.
Dreams I’ll Never See is an absolute killer song. It is actually a cover of a song by The Alman Bothers but I like this one WAY better. More upbeat and energetic.
With this song I think not watching the video loses a lot of the impact. Not that we watched the video when we were partying but we all knew exactly what the image looked like and we're picturing it while the song played.
@@toddstevens13 sorry not Canadian, maybe someday. A cool thing about these guys is that they run their own RU-vid channel and will answer comments almost immediately. After all this time I think that is fantastic.
@@JamesJoyce12 Hi, There is a short video about the making of "Black Betty". THEY said that they made it in the girlfriend's backyard and it cost 20 dollars to make. Maybe you should apologize. Peace
You two are the only reactors that listened to the entire song, thank you! I still remember when a friend of mine many years ago first turned me on to this song, I had the same reaction as you did, as if to say whaaat this song is fantastic!🙌🏼 Great reaction!👏🏼
Won't fit into the "biggest bangers" category, but you guys should listen to: "I'd Love to Change the World" by Ten Years After "Hypnotized" by Fleetwood Mac "Jackie Blue" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Oh, I like this advance notice and the comment section open. Its the equivalent of showing up early at a baseball game for batting practice. That is where the REAL HARD CORE fans show up. Thanks guys, A+++++++
I'm hooked on these guys. If it's not Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, I'm just sweating it out. You requested ELO. " Livin' Thing" is now stuck in my head. Did you like their reaction? I would have preferred "Roll Over Beethoven".
I was surprised that their glasses were filled when the song was over. Usually as soon as this song came on everybody chugged down whatever they had in their hand and shouted yeehaw. Man those were the days. We were so freaking lucky to have lived our teenage years in the 70s. I have to be honest I'm not very happy about being in my 60s but if I have to be in my 60s to have been a teen in the 70s then I'll live with it.
"Green Tamborine" was the demo single in a record store stereo listening booth I encountered on a childhood trip to 5th Avenue NY in the early 60's. The out/in phase shifting seemed to go from one side of the room to the other and was too hip for words.
Black Betty just kicks ass....Period!!! Such a classic. The 70's had the best music and it's so great to see you guys enjoying it so much. You still have alot more to discover✌❤🎶
It's too bad you guys skipped the lyrics analysis. This song's lyrics are actually an old African-American work song and "Black Betty" can refer to anything from a gun, a whip, to a bottle of whiskey. Gives the song a whole new meaning if looked at in that manner. This is actually a cover song of folk artist Leadbelly's tune.
My kids are 16 and 22 and I raised them on 60's, 70's and 80's music... and they love this song. It will make your head bang while driving and speeding tickets are in your future.
Legend has it, the band was given a few hundred bucks to film a promo clip. They spent the money on beer and weed and just set up in their backyard and filmed it themselves. One of my favorite stories ever, not even 100% sure it's true.
If you're gonna do this... Black Oak Arkansas - Jim Dandy to the Rescue; Brownsville Station - Smokin' In The Boys Room; Sweet - Ballroom Blitz. I'm not sure what you'd call it but it's a category...
You really have to watch the music video to get the full affect. It’s basically just these guys jamming in someone’s backyard, but it’s awesome. BTW, the lyrics are nods to an old blues song “Black Betty” by Lead Belly, one of the top blues man.
Another "One Hit Wonder" I think they would appreciate is GREEN EYED LADY by Sugarloaf. This is such a cool song. Everytime I hear it the song conjures up incredible imagery. Anybody agree?
With all respect, you guys should have done the live version, where they are jamming in someone's backyard, to get a full appreciation if the song. That's the banging JAM!!
Indeed, the bangingest banger there ever was to bang!! I was introduced to this song when I was six or seven (thanks Shawn for spinning this on your turntable, and we'd dance like silly fools!!) S++ for me! I agree with the transitions, but I don't care. If you don't find yourself foot tapping (or stomping) and bopping your head to this, you have no soul and should be put out of your misery! Great reaction guys!
Andy & Alex No filtering! Don’t change a thing. It’s cool to watch you both express what you’re thinking or feeling at each moment of the songs. It’s one of the main reasons we all keep showing up. 😎🥰 🙌
Awesome, you are doing the album version first. Then you need to check out the backyard video version, which is a hoot to watch, but they cut out a lot of the song in the middle. This is one of the rocking-est one hit wonders out there. For a followup one hit wonder, you gotta do Lunatic Fringe by Red Ryder.
This is a favorite song with the NHL. When the hockey players take the ice to warm up, Black Betty is the song that gets them fired up and ready to play the game. Can you imagine skating to Black Betty? It would be like me playing Aerosmith and driving 100mph down the highway (unknownly) and gaining speed!
Please guys. You have to do UFO. They are probably the most underrated rock band of the 70's. Lights Out Rock Bottom Doctor Doctor there is more....lots more. Please Andy and Alex, you won't regret checking this band out.
@@tonysimmons5729 not that I totally agree (I love the studio albums as much as Strangers) but as long as we can convince A & A to react to UFO I'll be happy.
Black Betty is the banger-est one-hit-wonder ever. Consider James Gang's Funk 49. or something by Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way. Thanks. Love you guys.
In answer to your question at 7:55 or so... here's the live version of them performing it in a backyard jam/party : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I_2D8Eo15wE.html You're gonna trip over the bassist and... well everything going on in the background too ! PS New T Shirt : "Bangeriest of Bangers" or "BoB" ?
@@richardfoster3924 They're on "Fillmore East June '71", and appear in the "200 Motels" movie. Mark Volman (The Phlorescent Leech) and Howard Kaylan (Eddie) recorded several albums under the name Flo and Eddie, had a regular feature (Flo and Eddie's Blindfold Test) in Creem magazine, and hosted a syndicated radio show in the late 70's. They also scored several movies and TV specials, and did backing vocals for Alice Cooper, T. Rex and Steely Dan, among others.
I love this song, it's one of the very few that I immediately crank it on the car radio when I hear it begin. Being almost 62 years old, when I do that it does raise some eyebrows in traffic. lol
On a slow note with Billy Thorpe, if you haven't already, listen to him sing "somewhere over the rainbow", not in his early days but in his latter days.
This song is making a comeback! Many U T reactioners are getting on this one. Saw them Live at the IMA Auditorium Flint Mich! The video looks like more fun than we had!
I remember when i first heard the song. Right off the bat. Right out of the shoot, I'm like Hell yeah ! And it was a main stay for years. Can't believe you young folks haven't listened to more music from this era. Im old but I'm proud. Lol
Guys, they do have a live video of this song, looks like a party in someone's back yard actually, it's very good! Unfortunately this was their only hit that I can think of! Thanks for the video, you guys are great!
Both couldn’t sip their whiskey because their jaws were wide open ha ha. Now you guys should watch the video of this song with them jamming in a backyard. Classic.
"Black Betty" is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author. Some sources claim it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material; in this case, an 18th-century marching cadence about a flintlock musket, and later in 1800's Colonial America as a bottle of whiskey referred to as Black Betty. The song was eventually, with modified lyrics, revitalized as a rock classic by the American band Ram Jam in 1977.
