Ram Jam - Black Betty 

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Hahahahahaha!

I’m dead af !!!!! 🤣

hahhahah

Busy guy, haha :D

Feel free to listen as many times as you want

Well, guess you listened to it more than 40 times in a day huh :D

@@Notime4646 yes I never get tired of it

@@PlouffeAlex That's great, that's grrreat :D

Amen!

The guitar is great. And the drums sound so simple, but they're so talented. I love it when you listen to a song, and you can tell it's from the 90s, 80s, or 70s just based on the sound.

Rest in peace

Bassit in a heavy metal band be like:

And kick. Don't forget the kicking.

The clapping dude was actually the lead singer for the band, but one of the guitarists decided to sing this song

😂

@@edoardozanzottera9167 not at all lmao

Actually lolled

Well, The microphones were 10 dollars total. The instruments were 100 each. The drinks were 100 dollars. Cousin Rick’s backyard as a stage was priceless.

*little exhale from nose*

Only for drugs

😂

It was originally a folk song en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Betty#:~:text=The%20song%20was%20first%20recorded,(a%20State%20prison%20farm).

@@SydneyLarrikin-ci2vz They made it their song though. Just like "hurt" is Johnny cash's song, even if he didn't write it

@@anonymoose2474 Johnny cash version was alright, but the NIN version is fire

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@@joshua_irving nin said it became a cash song when they heard it

😂😂

Yeah

Of course

That flippy picture.

Yes 😎👍

It's their music video...

This was obviously a studio recording played on top of the backjard video takes. You can see the music and playacting dont sync up on the beat all that well. Of course music and video where recoderd separate, the quality is far too produced for a live session.

@@user-un8tv1pp8m I see that you also have a brain.

You're going to receive a whole lotta shit, mate. Do the smart thing and delete it ;)

@@nomojo1110 lol

INNOCENT BLACK MEN!

@@imaninwardyuh

​@@imaninwardThat doesn't matter if it's good music 😂

@@imaninward I was referring to them as “dudes” because I didn’t think it was right or really mattered at all to call them black or African American. They are people all the same after all.

This song was made by lead belly my guy not a bunch of innocent dudes in prison

Damn

@@dontkillbillvol3 Yah. I'm not sure that counts anymore though. Used so much it lost it's potency. Profanity is The Spice of Language...

@@robjones8733 lol damn is a cus word but who gives a fuck song is fucking fire

@@dontkillbillvol3 I'm witcha' on that cuz. Keep rock alive! Writing to you from...wait for it...Birmingham..way down in Alabam!

Underrated comment

.. and I look like someone who make good burgers :D

Also the bands chef lol

And play one note

Back then that was an achievement with the amount of dope they smoked

Någon Hemlig what-

lol. The song was literally MASS MAINSTREAM

@@duongdinhchien3474 ?

Hilarious and original

Hell back then 30 get ya a couple lids so plenty of smoking 💨💨

@@briscoesjug1026 this was made in 1977. you must be thinking this was filmed in 1842 or sumn lmfao

@@Wormhito stuff was still cheaper but then not that cheap and inflation sooo 👉👈

I see you at 0:28 Rock on brother!

That dude was the lead singer of the band lol

Rhythm clapper

Shaggy

Doodle Kiiid it’s sorta sad. The band’s biggest hit wasn’t even sang by the lead singer.

Sure does. Always will

Always will be

It'll still sound good in 3024

@@michelleybach 3024??

Should have been the prototype for all music videos

Funny thing is these "dads" are probably in their 20s in this video.

@@sirrivet9557 no matter how old they were then, they were still awesome for sure

Fuck Yeah

ROTFLMAO, welcome to the 70's!

He plays the ground

I have that jacket!!!!!!!

😂😂😂

I think he's the actual lead singer of the band, he just wasn't for this song.

Or maybe the drummer is the lead singer, I just know the guy singing is a back up singer

Southern rock done right.

My daughter loved the beat from Rayman Legends and so I showed her this song that it’s based on.

LOL! YESSSSS!

Not wrong lol

I understand lol

better watch out cleetus might hear ya

Indeed.

Here is the Leadbelly version ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SJUSGuNxt-4.html - he plays another song first. But when he plays Black Betty, he rocks it out and there's one instrument. And it's the same one the clapping guy uses.

Just like the singers who bang a tambourine against their hip.

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Well done on your phenomenal achievements! This song has been lifted me through a few scrapes, too, but I think you are incredibly brave to share your story, but also that you have shown others that it can be done! Continued success to you and yours!! 💯💯👏👏👏👏👏❤️

Thank you baby ❤.

I was homeless and more of a drunk but I dabbled. Now I got a home and a wonderful man for the last 35 years. We made it Sister. Bravo.❤

Hey, glad you broke through to the other side. I had a 30yr H habit, but clean just over 7 yrs. Best thing I ever done. It's sometimes hard, but we have to see something, and want it, take it with both hands. Abslkhtley happy for you. Well done.

Wish you all the best, well done on getting things together 💜

HERE

Just played castle rock level and looked for this song to see your comment 😅

OMG HIIIIIIII

Here

Are they dead by now, the music is alive and kicking...

Rest In Peace to your dad

Rest in Peace ur dad

Rest In Peace to your dad

I am very sorry for your loss, may he rest in peace.

I'm pretty sure your dad was a legend rock on man your dad's probably in heaven with all of the greats

Then your dad is COOL AS HELL!.......

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hahaha

It’s funny since they all look like generic dads, especially the lead guitarist and singer, he kinda looks like my dad.

ozweepay not this good I bet

Which is hilarious since he’s from Jersey.

Well, people looked like that in different countries

Lol

There was also the one that said that he looked like the human version of Mountain Dew lol

He (Bill Bartlett) was in The Lemon Pipers, who had a hit with "My Green Tambourine" in the late 60s. It's not much like this song, though.

@@GusFringsdecrepitVolvoV I think it was "If mountain dew was a person" Best comment ever! Lol

Bring him a glass of water go home with a bag of weed

👍😁

Yes , I remember that song. I recently heard the song playing and came here to find this lol.

In the Dutch city of Utrecht there was* a bar called "Stairway to Heaven", where the night always ended with the Led Zeppelin classic. *Technically 'is', but it will close the doors for the last time in four days (24 August 2022).

This was how it was in them 70s.. It was a very good time to be a 70s BRAT

@@theodoreritola7641 sorry born 72 😑 still an Imp 👍😁

(on youtube)

Do you happen to know where exactly?

It's like he new about covid

@@nosuchthing8 no lol

The neightbours were like: ,,ooh they're drunk again..."

@@reecebrown1239 *knew

@@flakmag1004 damn it i missed

All he needs are some cool shades and an alternate timeline where he is born in the 50s

Didn't expect you to be here. Is this research for what would happen if this song was never written?

wait what it's like RU-vidrs are everywhere on youtube

The bass player is Gus Johnson

This reminds me of how we partied back then...outside in someone's backyard, and even the cloths they're wearing.

@@debbygordon1432 I was just listening to a program with the comedian behind the robot skeleton Geoff on Craig Ferguson's Late, Late Show. He was talking about how when he used to do stand up comedy, he'd do these impressions of the people he grew up with in a poor section of Cleveland, his neighbors, people he saw all the time and interacted with. He told stories and put on the different personalities and voices, and he wasn't making fun of anyone; indeed, he was depicting "home," people he cherished. He said sometimes blacks would come up to him and say how perfectly well he was able to capture the way things were where he was from. BUT, these days? I'm just paraphrasing here, but he said it was different, how the things he said then could now be called "racist." You simply weren't allowed to say certain things anymore. Yes, being outside in someone's yard just hanging out was recognizeable, and those clothes - love the bell bottoms and tube tops! But hearing the song now, after just listening to that comedian, what struck me was how free and spontaneous those people all appeared. It doesn't look to me like they're each worried, thinking, "I wonder if it's okay that I'm _____ " (Fill in the blank.)

@@stephanieknows1668 There's something to that, of course. And I remember wearing bell bottoms not because they were cool, but because they were just... clothes.

Hermonie was not born yet.

They were on another level in that moment in time.

Sweet

Haha

If it works it works right ?

that is the video clip

Or living room! Heres my friends band playing Fat Bottom Girls. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NU1oVqfmq34.html

Amazing comment, couldn't have done it better myself - Person

Lets wait till the 4th of july through a byob party and save money on extras.

I wish I had that much for weed

Fortnite Sucks I heard the $200 was for black Betty to come around

Haaaaa 😂😂😂😂🇺🇸👍

Yes

Captain obvious

Oh k

Dope

Hell nah

Me

we’re here

Me

Ye

I got'chu homie, just jamming out to this song while i do chores

It's funny cause it's true

Best comment XD

😂😂😂 Dead 😂😂😂

In reality, that is the actual singer of this band, but for some reason the guitarist sang this one

Thats what happens if you do to much acid, he just don't care anymore

Bro 😂😂😂😭

Lol

So... Still weed?

It does looks like shaggy from scooby doo

Nope his t-shirt was always green🤪

Except for the fact that no modern songs this advanced

Very tight, and, in the pocket they were, and, yes, not any ol bass player could have pulled it off.

RELEASED IN 1977 I was a young lad ,,,,

@@pmbbmp So, you feel that the band wasn't really able to pull it off? This a smoke, and, mirrors thing going on?

-Johnny Depp PERSECUTES Amber Heard’s fans come and see!

LOL you Family Guy Fan ! Yeah that was too funny.

I appreciate you

Respect

I literally just wacthed that episode

@@Honk_Tube Thank you old wise one. Pardon my "bad English" . I will make sure to think before I type. You can now continue your policing elsewhere. K 😌

a little less than a Justin Beaver video!

@eunoia wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better.

It worked though

Good music like this sells it's self, it didn't need a shity video behind it to make people want to go out and buy the record !

That's an easy one, PRICELESS!

thats what i was thinkin

They didn't make this song it was stolen from the African Americans

they made a ton of music, it just isnt as relevant as this one song

This is a cover

@@APXWOX Then why hasn't the official RU-vid channel posted any other than this?

They have a bunch of pretty good songs, it's sad they didn't get more famous.

The problem they had was ..this track is so good they constantly got compared to this track and they couldn't compete with it ..everybody expected albums with every track on the level of black Betty..

Look at then

@@sridawithrizz this is not beauty contest. They look like every guy from 70's

didnt sell their souls mybe

@tru24 68pom I know, I’m joking haha :)

@tru24 68pom I've read here long ago that he's the lead singer actually. And this being their one hit wonder, I'm sure he's not that happy... Lol

Don't take away the fact you would be just as happy as he would would being part of a song as good as this... bbbbb bamalam 🤣

@@wlattkouzd he went on to form a band called Queen

Awesome. I was wondering what his part in the band was as well:)

It was first recorded in 1933 by James "Iron Head" Baker, who was part of a chain gang in a Texas prison. Definitely started out as a work song, Boss!

Remember the chipmunks song, whistle while you work ?? Same thing. lol. I used to milk our cow to it.

Thanks for the interesting history lesson! I always dig these bits of culture from working-class folk throughout history.

Crazy part his name was “iron head” sounds mighty American Indian if ya ask me. 🌚🌝 happy black history folks

@@bdud8694Snow White

Mom listen here you little sht

Can I come to ur yard

@@stephencumming3322 wait i'll ask mom

Ok

What did she say

So true

We still look like that

yep!

@@marniestewart yeah but the artists’ talent has dropped enormously

@@hyperboreaenjoyer6738 No it hasn't. You're just not looking in the right places. :)

People with good taste are still listening. No matter how old. Im 13 turning 14 soon and I listen to classic rock like this lol

Soooo true

Music is timeless..if you like it ,what the hell.Also there is sooo much online..can,t keep up.

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OLALLLLLZL a Appalachian

They knew, absolutely no one who rocks like this doesn't know they cool as... Legends

Yeah.. there just so so cool... ??

I remember when these guys came out! 🤣😂😂🎉❤😅😊 They look authentic.❤😂🎉😅😊❤s

​@@masoncross-om3ocThey certainly are. Cool as fuck.

This deserves more likes, and FACTS

This looks so fun

Good boys u got there.

Imagine being able to get a girl

@@bderrick4944 that is a hard thing to get except easy if there is money involved

Yeah. Pretty much. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I was born in '71.

if you were poor and white, this was it

Yes and we had a ball!

Yep :D

My house...1976,Byron,Georgia!

🤣🤣

i wanted to like, but sorry, not breaking the nice

lol so true

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

My Dad built a softail Harley on our living room after his cancer. He named her Black Betty. This song has always reminded me of my Dad and Betty. Thankful for this song 🖤

Yes indeed.

$100 more than than they needed

This was shot on 16mm reversal film with a TV-news-grade zoom lens. Canon Scoopic, let me guess?

@@kludgeaudio Were you the one who filmed this video? 😳🤔

@@kludgeaudio lol

@@incompertuspartiem4756 : No, if I were, I'd know for sure rather than guessing, but I bet a nickel on a Scoopic.

Well when they were asked to make a music video they didn't ask for money, they just asked for some weed and chose to do it outside the one of the band-member's house

It had a Budget of 20$ and all it was spent on is Weed. And yes this is a Copypasta Comment; that Joke used to be Top Comment here for some Time but disappeared now. Let's keep it alive that Way.

​@@Genius_at_Workhutappiotyressa

@isabelledugat2333

only crap needs such a budget

Go and search "Codfish - Black Betty" you will 🙀

Guilty 🤣😂🤣

Yeah for real. It’s the beginning of old VH songs for me haha

0. It's not a speeding song

Hi, kuru here !

You can even aspire to be the guy in the back with the black shirt, jumping around and clapping - he had one job but man he did it with gusto

@@vcrkm5222 He was back up vocals to go with all the clapping, lol.

Hhh

With a little edit and a tik tok channel- You can...

@@vcrkm5222 he is the band's lead vocal tho

Family guy brought me here

Play it at my funeral

why

Gotta agree with you on that

They didn't even write it.

XD This video is so great. here goes something more for this quarantine open.spotify.com/artist/1U2LxnwjHrNI2fM5P4m19O?si=zYaE1PrBR2q83rDQtCjjfg their videos are fantastic

Omg best comment

How the fuck did i not notice that lol 🤣

It’s called the hand and it’s taken me years to master

The guy clapping is actually the lead singer for the band, their most famous hit wasn't even sung by the band's lead singer this song is sung by the guitarist Bill Bartlett.

J'ai connu grâce à need for speed 🤩🎮

And now the memes are going to flood this song. They already ruined Free Bird and Sweet Home Alabama

I'm 2 million of them

Weyyyyyyyyyyy

Yes Agreed. We not gonna lose music.

Lol

Lmfao fax

Oh the like count, 69, pure beauty

lmao🤣

well he is cheating;looks at the girls in the back

A normal human and not plastic is refreshing too.

No

Lmao fr though.

no one cares,that you,an imbecile,smokes weed FYI

hilarious!

Hilarious!

lol

Kira Vremyanoi 261 people care

One of music's first 'hype men'

Looks like they were all stoned except maybe the lead guitar / singer

he was the lead singer on most of the songs on 1st album but didn't sing Black Betty unfortunately. Myke Scavone sang lead on most of the 2nd album also.

Happy Mondays used to get their drug dealer "bez" to jump around and dance on stage, might be the same thing in this case...i hope so.

He's Myke Scavone, normally played harmonica and sang lead on about 1/2 their songs. Unfortunately not their most famous one. LOL.