When your eyes lit up when he said Birmingham 😂😂 The story goes that they told the record label they needed $500 for the video. They used the $500 on weed and beer and shot the vid in the drummer’s backyard.
Ram Jam is a one hit wonder. The lead singer was the lead guitarist in a band in the 1960s called -the Lemon Pipers-which was another one hit wonder-their hit Green Tambourine was a #1 song in the US in 1968.
It was a cover, too. I don't think anyone knows who first wrote this since it's a Civil War song about the cannon fire, but there are recordings from the 1930s.
I knew these guys in the 70s. I moved into a house with a musician, Howie, the bassist, he was leaving on tour with Ram Jam. Some of the band came to gigs. Drummer was dreamy lol
@MollyBoyTV Yo Molly Lad bro, you got to check out Silverchair song called Tomorrow (the official music video). You can also react to the live performance version
I just Posted the ALBUM Version for him. Hopefully, he'll see it SOON and React to it Also!!! I used to Own the Album, with the Astronauts, by the Ram-Head Pyramid on the Cover. (Sadly, THIS is the Only Song I Liked) Definitely a "One-Hit Wonder" band!
I'm 58, and it quite literally makes me weep with joy when people find the music of my childhood. It's channels like yours that keep the music of the past alive. Keep it going kidda
Once you start doing a variety of 70s music, you'll absolutely love it. I grew up in the 70s/80s and we had the best music & we also grew up listening to the great 60s music. Glad you're not limiting yourself to only heavy metal.
Molly me boy! You just got introduced it Southern Metal. And They rode it to the end! Now - I NEED some Scottish Metal - Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak or Whisky in The Jar. Or the Cover by Metallica of Whisky in the Jar! You should also tell us why you and your lady friend love Hip Hop and Rap the genres overlap since the 80’s You Still Rock Molly! Glad to see you genuinely having a good and great time!
It's so awesome to see the young generation transform into an old soul. You are absolutely 💯 correct, music today is not the done like this. If you want to hear a new sound: Jethro Tull- Locomotive Breath LIVE (1982, Rockpop Concert)
Of course the video is a must because, well... We've all seen it and it's too cool and fun not to watch. Yet, the studio album version of the song has a much longer guitar solo that is definitely worth a listen so you should check that one out too in your spare time :D
This is music from my time! i was a teenager in the mid to late '70's. We all knew this song. This was the era when money was limited, but smoking grass really wasn't! I didn't smoke weed, and neither did any of my friends. It simply wasn't "common" back then...EXCEPT for bands like this! Good song!
LOVED your reaction. can't believe still people reacting who've never heard.... great job... love your appreciation for the just total organci feel of the piece
You've been enjoying some great classic southern rock. Ram Jam, Eagles, Lynard Skynard... all southern rock. I love watching how excited you get and how you'll just rock out. Keep 'em comin!
The gong guy is wearing a Misses jacket I owned back then. The exact same one I purchased from French Novelty boutique. He must've borrowed it from his girlfriend for the video!
I grew up in the 70’s with bands just like this jamming in our front yard!🥰🎶People in the neighboring town 5 miles away could hear & would call then come over to party with us lol Such fun fun memories ♥️
I remember this band in the 70's! I was probably 15 at the time, partying on the beaches of the Missouri/Mississippi river. There were about 1000 boom boxes playing the song at the same time on KSHE radio!
Hahahahaha I love your excitement ohhhh mate the 70s best bands. I was born in 1965 & I'd wished I'd been born earlier to have been able to be at Woodstock!!! I love that groovy rock .... I love guitar & drums too 😊
I have heard this song one million times lol. I usually skip the reactions. However an average person needs to hear this atleast 100 times and I wanted to be here for your 1st time. So excited for you to do this type of classic rock! You are correct about it being a crying shame that music isn’t like that anymore. Great reaction!
Pretty new to your channel, love watching you fall for ‘new to you’ music. This is my shit and I thought it was gonna die out with us old bastards, does me good to see people who really know how to feel and appreciate the sounds we grew up with. I can tell who’s reacting for the views and who’s genuine. You’re a sound lad mate, enjoy your reactions. ❤
This music used to give the individual musician an opportunity to show their skill with the song or tune. They all did solo parts as part of the songs in 60’s and 70’s So many groups did these solo parts both in small venues or large concerts. It also showed all the critics what they could do - good for them 👍👍
They have recorded other songs but yes this was their one hit wonder in the 1970s...It's great that we are all lucky enough to experience it still in this era...Keep on Rocki'n!
I remember when this song charted here in the UK. 1974ish ? Also heard or read somewhere that these guys were also studio musicians and roadies for other bands as well as forming Ram Jam. I might be completely wrong about all that - it was a long time ago! I don't think they did much else other than this song but it must've made them a bit of money over the years. Seventies I reckon was the golden age of rock music when you think of all the bands and solo artists from that time. Glad you're listening to this stuff - it'll never come back again (unfortunately) but with people like yourself putting it on RU-vid it'll never die. You're doing a good job - keep rockin'!
Black Betty has been rerecorded by a few different bands but Ram Jam gave it life. If you like this type of music might I suggest Boston (More than a feeling), Styx (Blue collar man), Queen (1985 Live Aid performance) & Led Zeppelin (Kashmir). I was very lucky to catch Stevie Ray Vaughan and Joe Cocker together. Joe Cocker is another one that gets overlooked in reviews and should get more love. Joe Cocker (With a little help from my friends).
Yes , Ram Jam jammed ! If you want more guitar , have you heard of Ten Years After ? Alvin Lee on guitar will blow you away ! And Ram Jam had a few cool tunes !
Yes, we were spoiled rotten as kids born in the 60s with such phenomenal music. whether it be our parents music or what was currently on the radio… no matter what station you spun the dial to or genre. It was all great music… can I go back to that time now?
You pointed out how this song put you in the good mood, and that is the difference between the music of the 1970s and current day. Today people are so miserable (and are so afraid of dying they are too scared to live) but in the 70s we all loved life and it was filled with exuberance and cheer. Yes, cheer. We were all looking forward to going to the moon and Mars, and to all the things that the future held--especially for the people of the Western world, and then (in the 80s) women took over society, and their fear of everything was spread to their bubble-wrapped kids (something no father would have allowed in the 1970s) and with mind altering drugs that they forced on their little boys (check ADHD drugs) for doing nothing except being little boys that they could not keep up with after working all day--something women did not HAVE to do in the 1970s so they had time and energy to enjoy their kids and for their kids to enjoy life--all they wanted was what fathers had had in the 70s, a little time to unwind and relax after a day's work. I feel sorry for all of the kids your age, because mine is the last generation (for I don't know how long) that will experience the wonder of falling in love and lying back on a blanket of grass looking up at the starry night sky with the one we had fallen in love with as a romantic song (Moonlight Feels Right--Starbuck, for example) knowing that as we grew older we would marry and have kids and perhaps those kids would be born on Mars or some other cosmic body. When women took over society they grounded space travel to not only Mars but even to the moon, and a colony was suddenly out of the future. Misery set in, and the joy of love, romance, even life was drained from Western Society. Around the world the guiding light that had radiated outward around the world was extinguished, and with it HOPE for a better tomorrow.
This is an old American Civil War song. Black Betty was those cannons (or muskets; I'm not sure, but I heard it was the black cannons). Black Betty had a child firing a cannonball, and the "bamalam" was the path of the cannonball through the enemy infantry.
@@snakeinthegrass7443 To be sure, the song is very old, and there must have been so many versions over time. I wonder if anyone can truly know the original as it predates recordings. Here is a recording of the same song from 1933. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tiCEVl_9-MM.html
There is killer music from every decade! You sometimes just need to look harder for it the further back you go! I’m a grunge and nu metal girl myself but some songs just hit you no matter what genre/era they are from!
This is the edited (shortened) "radio version" of the song, and has a vital part of it missing. Full unedited album version is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4cn_woPvjQI.html There is an instrumental break in the middle of the song which totally transforms the listening experience. Well worth a go. And we "yanks" wouldn't have a Birmingham Alabama without your hometown existing first. Just saying. o7 (salute)
Loved watching your changing expressions during this number. The 1970s had lots of guitar and drum-led bands (mainly American). This was the era before autotune and synthesisers so band members had to know how to play their instruments. Groups worth checking are Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Golden Earring, Allman Brothers, Cream. The list goes on.
This song has a long long history.... This video was recorded in 1977 on Long Island, New York. The lead singer is Bill Bartlett, he was the lead singer in a band called 'Starstruck' prior to being the lead singer in this video with the band in this video. Ram Jam did not actually play this song.... they just filmed it to look like they were playing this song. The music in this video came from the band call StarStruck with Bill Bartlett. Also, the music is totally from the StarStruck album.... but they did some heavy edits to that StarStruck song to make this song/video.....and yes, Bill Bartlett was in both bands... he purchased the rights to this song from the StarStruck band members and then created a new band called Ram Jam....Bill Bartlett is NOT the lead singer for this band (Ram Jam)... actually Myke Scavone is the lead singer for the band... but obviously not in this video... Myke Scavone is the guy clapping his hands on the left side of video....(Left of Bill Bartlett) This song is actually a country music song..... check out Starstruck Black Betty.... He is singing about Betty Page... Betty Page is a chick that was well known in the 1950's, and was known as Black Betty back then ... he just plain ol thinks she was sexy....
It was older than that, and about a musket called 'black betty'. The line 'gone wild' referred to how inaccurate it was. The line 'had a child' and 'damn thing gone blind' refers to the brown betty that was made after the black betty was so bad, and it was just as bad if not worse. It's on the wiki page. None of those lines make sense in the context of Betty Page.
I believe this was based on an old civil war era work song. Black Betty was a musket but the makers made a replacement model ( black Betty had a child) called Brown Bess that didn't work or shoot as well as Black Betty hence the line the " the damn thing gone wild"
This song has been covered a lot. There are two covers that are more recent. One was done by Nick Cave on his 'Kicking against the pricks' Album. Another was done by an aussie band that I can't remember the name of atm. It had a distinctly Southern USA feel to it. Complete with Banjo.
Not sure if it's been said before in the comments or not, but be sure to check out the full version of the song. It has a long guitar solo in it, so look for that. I wish the video contained the whole song, but.
Great one Bro'! My mom's side of the family is from Alabama/Tennessee. We know this whiskey fueled music. Ram Jam's Black Betty is a one hit wonder and the 70's. In the USA this genre is called Southern Rock, Southern-Fried Rock, or Deep-Fried Southern Rock, which is like calling it Rock Rock because the southern states is where rock came from. Other more successful bands other than Lynyrd Skynyrd which you mentioned are: ZZ Top (Texas Technically) and The Black Crowes are probably the next most successful to Lynyrd, Molly Hatchet, .38 Special, Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker Band, Creedance Clearwater Revival (which i saw on your list), Black Oak Arkansas, Blackfoot, and a bunch more.
Black Betty was an old blues tune going back to the 1920s/1930s. Lead Belly was one of the first to record it. The history may go back even further. Ram Jam certainly took it to a different place.
This is a rehash of an old War of Independence song with a modern twist. Black Betty referred originally to an old musket made in Birmingham, England. When fired the flash pan smoke could make you temporarily blind. It has been rehashed many times until we got this amusing version.
