What Did He Say? | 3 Generation Reaction | Ram Jam | Black Betty

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What Did He Say? | 3 Generation Reaction | Ram Jam | Black Betty
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@jasonremy1627 6 месяцев назад

The story behind this video is that the record company gave them $500 to make a music video, so the band spent $450 on weed and beer, and threw this party with it, and just filmed it.

@rudymorganti7155 6 месяцев назад

💯 true

@rogerreed905 6 месяцев назад

Hearing an interview . . The band on the video is not the same as the one that recorded the single . . That came from a Bill Bartlett interview .. hes the lead on the video . .

@briangriffin5524 6 месяцев назад

If this is 1977, they may have shot this on Super 8 film. What we used to call home movie film.

@danadnauseam 6 месяцев назад

@@rogerreed905 Bartlett said that they were told one morning to get their gear and go out ti shoot the video for a promoter in England. He didn't even see the final cut until 40 years later when his dentist showed it to him. The song itself is an old folk song. The best known previous recording was by the great bluesman Leadbelly (Huddie Leadbetter, whom the band thought had written it), but he probably learned it in prison, as the first recording was a Lomax field recording. The Ram Jam record is a 1977 remix of a 1973 recording by Bartlett's previous band, Starstruck. After Starstruck broke up, Bartlett was contacted by the producers he his earlier band, the Lemon Pipers, had worked with in the late 60s. Ram Jam was organized aground the song. Ram Jam lasted for two albums, mostly decent blues-rock, but this was their only hit.

@bobdavis4848 6 месяцев назад

@@danadnauseam Great info, but don''t forget there was also the B side to the single edit version of "Black Betty," which was not on either Ram Jam album, "I Should Have Known." Also, the professional name "Lead Belly" was two words.

@629GSMITH 6 месяцев назад

I'm 72 yrs old I blasted this song in 1973 when I. College.

@SG-js2qn 6 месяцев назад

This is basically a rock cover of an old blues song. It's a great interpretation, with a lot of energy and musical invention.

@powertothebauer296 6 месяцев назад

This is probably the most covered song in History

@edmundwynne8021 6 месяцев назад

i miss the solo section mid song on the album version...wish they included it in the video! great rendition...rock n roll at its best

@cmlemmus494 5 месяцев назад

@@powertothebauer296 You'd think so, but it really isn't. There are different ways to count covers/ sampled songs, but I've seen several different lists and Black Betty isn't on any of them. It's important to remember the existence of songs like White Christmas, My Way, Hallelujah!, and the libraries of the Beatles, Elvis, Johnny Cash, and Hoyt Axton.

@powertothebauer296 5 месяцев назад

@@cmlemmus494 This song is original from somewhere 1880 (the accurate year I don't recall) and I m to lazy to look it up again and over the years this song is from so many Artists interpreted that everybody lost count of it. so yes it is probably the most covered song in history.

@hornyteenager_count7mates 5 месяцев назад

No summertime blues by eddie cochran is the most covered song @@powertothebauer296

@glassontherocks 6 месяцев назад

Black Betty was a Civil War black powder musket. It had a child the damn thing went wild. An unexpected discharge the bullet went in an unknown direction. It was an old cadence song for chain gangs in the south.

@mcgee227 5 месяцев назад

Hes talking about heroin.

@nancy-su9zk 5 месяцев назад

Additionally, the Alabama gun manufacturer marketed a 2nd gun (the 'child') it did not fire straight either, this surely "...the damn thing went blind."

@laynecox3992 5 месяцев назад

@@mcgee227no it's about a musket, the last line is about the iron works In Birmingham Alabama

@the_bottle_imp 5 месяцев назад

The name Black Betty predates the American Civil War by about 150 years. The term Black Betty was later superseded by Brown Bess.

@glassontherocks 5 месяцев назад

@@the_bottle_imp We all get to learn some history.

@OZAHS1959 6 месяцев назад

This is the 70's I remember. Man we had fun.

@ronhall5395 6 месяцев назад

Very good song. Written over 100 yrs ago ( maybe 200). Black Betty was a musket used by the military. Strong reliable and very accurate. The next generation was called a Brown Bess. So black Betty had a child, brown bess. Brown Bess was junk, not accurate ( gone blind) and not reliable ( gone wild). The third verse was added by Ram Jam to make the song longer. They should have added a few more verses.

@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 6 месяцев назад

English settlers from Northumberland and Cumberland who settled the Appalachians called their Whiskey 'Black Betty' it refers to the still they used to make their whiskey with, having a child is the whiskey being born and it can send you blind, it gets you high and when she shakes that thing it really makes you sing.

@stevedavis5704 5 месяцев назад

I was told the blind part came because of the smoke that was made from firing the musket and if you didn’t load the weapon properly it would blow up in your face or as the song said “Go wild” and blind you.

@danmayberry1185 6 месяцев назад

Yes, Lulu, "she's always ready" to play baseball. Betty was sporty, and that's all you need to know.

@wadstur8429 6 месяцев назад

She is so adorable!! I love her! (ready for what?)😁

@hebber1961 6 месяцев назад

Always dressed and ready to go out. lol

@cmlemmus494 5 месяцев назад

Given that there are about half a dozen semi-apocryphal interpretations of the lyrics, being ready to play ball is just as good as any other. The *nudge nudge wink wink* interpretation is actually not one of the major ones.

@Ranman1 5 месяцев назад

Baseball game, bles her heart!

@penponds 5 месяцев назад

LOL…!

@arnodobler1096 6 месяцев назад

The 70s and 80s were decades ahead of us.

@JayKhwaja Месяц назад

HELL YH 💫😎👏👌🎵⭐️✨️

@briangriffin5524 6 месяцев назад

Huddie Ledbetter was also known as Leadbelly. He was a legendary blues singer and songwriter from way back. He preceded the era of rock and roll. 😅 Leadbelly recorded his version of Black Betty in New York in 1939.

@user-tx6hl9fx4x 5 месяцев назад

I was born in 1959 and I'm into Blues, Soul and Rock and I have looked up a lot of songs to see if there was an original artist. Little Eva, Mama Thornton, Robert Johnson just to name a few that their songs were covered and became big hits.

@firedoc5 6 месяцев назад

Even though Ram Jam had some regional success, this is their one-hit-wonder. This was used in quite a few soundtracks for action movies, so it may sound familiar to some people without knowing about it. The video does look like my kind of backyard BBQ. LOL Growing up I was lucky to have a few great garage band musicians that wound up playing as studio musicians in Nashville and played around the world with the USO, so we did a few jam sessions like it.

@johngriffiths118 3 месяца назад

Number 1 in the UK for weeks

@paulr.3220 6 месяцев назад

That was some of the best reactions to this song that I've seen. Donna is a hoot.

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thank you. I agree Donna is hoot. Lol

@patrickkelly5009 3 месяца назад

You can see the "glory days" starting to fade back in for Donna. 😅😅😅 It's so cool to see today's kids not only listening to but actually enjoying the music we "boomers" grew up listening to. The 60s, 70s, and 80s were an awesome time to be alive, man.

@hoserhouse5308 3 месяца назад

Black Betty refers to a Blunderbuss manufactured in Alabama during the civil war. The child was a smaller version that had so many problem that the soldier's were afraid it would blow up in there hand's. They would say Damn thing gone wild.

@mikefetterman6782 6 месяцев назад

Ram Jam formed in 1977, and they had split before the end of the year.

@JimboUSAF007 3 месяца назад

"Black Betty" is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. Some sources say it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material.

@clasmaster1471 6 месяцев назад

This look like my backyard when I grew up. This literally looks like my photo albums when I was a kid, this song been around forever

@bretcantwell4921 3 месяца назад

Donna's eyes widenig when the guitar kicked in was priceless. I'd think even a big country fan would recognize the fuzzy chords of Southern Fried Rock.

@Drahculia 2 месяца назад

With fried eggs on the album cover!

@3404sammy Месяц назад

Ohh yeah!! Donna was ready to join that backyard party right then and there. She wanted to get up out of that chair and Jam out with Ram Jam!! Great stuff that was fun.

@Greg-om2hb 6 месяцев назад

Led Belly recorded this song in 1939. You can find it on RU-vid. Take a look. The origins of the song go back much further. Ram Jam released this recording in 1977. It hit me like a ton of bricks. They were a one-hit wonder.

@bruceblackburn9423 5 месяцев назад

Leadbelly

@Greg-om2hb 5 месяцев назад

@@bruceblackburn9423 Oops. I knew that. Huddie Ledbetter, to be precise.I guess have permanent "Led Zeppelin" on the brain.

@bretcantwell4921 3 месяца назад

This version has been the entry music I played in my head when I walked into a room full of strangers for about two decades when I first heard Leadbelly's. The cadence is the same, but otherwise it blues and Southern Fried Rock. I should have known it came from a blues artist being a fan of George Thurogood.

@barnacles62 4 месяца назад

Black Betty was a metaphor used for a lot of different things. Whiskey to slaves. It was a song done by the blues singer Lead Belly and said to have been a slave song. However, Ram Jams version is said by its creator to be about Betty Paige, a 1950s pinup model. The last two verses are specifically about her....

@factsdntcareaboutu 3 месяца назад

Took miss Donna back in time . Loved her reaction

@darrellwaller6205 6 месяцев назад

LUlu: "maybe a baseball game" Donna: "I doubt it" ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I literally laughed out loud to that! Oh god, so good.

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much.

@anthonysardone723 3 месяца назад

😂😂😂

@Arkryal Месяц назад

So this is an old folk song, authorship unknown, but it was popularized by two Blues artists in the 1920s and 1930s, "Ironhead" and "Lead Belly" respectively. "Black Betty" isn't a person, it's the whip that was used to beat black prisoners on the chain gang. "Bam la Bam' is the sound of the whip... "She's so rocksteady, always ready"... pretty ominous, and when she "makes me sing" the implication is screaming in pain. There have been hundreds of versions of this song, and in typical Blues fashion, every artist has taken their own interpretation. In some versions, Black Betty is a gun, in other's it's a drug. But it is never a person, that is clear, it's an allegory for something that keeps people down. RamJam's version is the most popular recording to date, and it's the version most other bands cover now, but it's quite far from the original already.

@rudymorganti7155 6 месяцев назад

Im 60 and still here it in the MC world. Best reaction ever ladys 🤣❤️🇮🇹🇧🇪

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thanks

@roberthewitt9054 6 месяцев назад

Black Betty is a Blunderbuss

@SdMbL1 6 месяцев назад

The studio version has a longer middle jam section! Ultimate party song!

@kennydavis2276 5 месяцев назад

Yea. I've watched this video before and it did have the guitar solo. Now it seems to have had the audio replaced with the cut down radio version. I swear, I despise I heart radio. They cut everything down except Free Bird.

@labajadaman 5 месяцев назад

This is the studio version. Just edited down for radio.

@frederickv.9300 4 месяца назад

Lead guitarist Bill Bartlett also was in the band Lemon Pipers who did 'Green Tambourine'.

@stischer47 5 месяцев назад

I love Donna's reaction. She gets it right off!

@seanbarker4610 6 месяцев назад

Apparently the 'Black Betty" was a musket and the first line refers to a blind shot, which happens when damp gunpowder is used to pack a musket!

@neilgayleard3842 6 месяцев назад

No. That's a brown bess. A British gun.

@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 6 месяцев назад

@gabreel8112 6 месяцев назад

Black Betty is a bullwhip used on people that were on the chain gang

@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 6 месяцев назад

@@gabreel8112 There's no evidence to support that but more impotently how would that relate to the words of the song.

@dr.burtgummerfan439 6 месяцев назад

Lead Belly was a pioneer of folk/blues, and sometimes bluesmen would just string together a bunch of thoughts and words just because they sounded good and flowed well. "Black Betty" could in fact be a patchwork of the different interpretations. I know Birmingham Alabama was once a major iron/steel producing city. If Black Betty was a musket, the iron could've been from Birmingham, way down in Alabam.😁

@PrenatalApocalypseNow 3 месяца назад

LuLu was feelin' it! Rock~n~Roll will never die!

@stanpiers247 Месяц назад

The lead guitar player and singer was in the Band The Lemon Pipers and had a hit called Green Tambourine.

@garyfletcher844 12 дней назад

I thought he lookd familier. The video is much older than it appears.

@kevincaulder20 6 месяцев назад

Next up for you guys should be the cautionary tale as told by THE GEORGIA SATELLITES. You will absolutely LOVE it !!!

@jefferybarnett6056 3 месяца назад

I love how no one ever knows going in what this song is actually about. We hear and interpret the first thing that pops into our heads...when you tell people it is an old song about a civil war era musket, they are stunned and need an explanation. But like all art, you enjoy it or not based on how it makes it's impression on you. There is no doubt it is upbeat and lively and gets your heart pumping.

@wesalker3479 6 месяцев назад

This was a drinking song in pre-revolutionary English pubs and black Betty is what the English called (Scotch) Whiskey. Benjamin Frankllin refered to it in some of his letters back to the Colonies. English soldiers brought the song with them to fight the insurgence. The song subsequently underwent several/many changes over the years. It became famous in 1933 when James "Ironhead" Hayward was the first to record it but, before that, it was sung by convicts, like Huddy "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, in chain gangs, in the south. Huddy also recorded a version of it in 1939, after his release from prison . . . . . for murder.

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for info

@steevenfrost 6 месяцев назад

I have a version by Manfred Mann on their Mighty Garvey album called Big Betty.

@michaelscott8443 4 месяца назад

Nope it was a gun ,in England

@wesalker3479 4 месяца назад

@@michaelscott8443 yeah, a lot of people say that and a lot of people are wrong . . . it's documented history.

@kevinmarshall854 6 месяцев назад

The 70's were great!!! Just look at how they dressed and how they were acting during this video🤣🤣🤣

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Yes, it was great.

@tapashe9239 2 месяца назад

The way grandma perked up on the first beat made my day!

@sonofthesea3298 6 месяцев назад

Possibly the best thumbnail of the week right here,when all 3 has an expression of laughter at the same time,you know the reaction will be really GOOD! And i was right,this might be the best reaction i have seen to this song! I have seen people with a stankface and diggin` this song alot,but this was on another level of fun reactions!

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@Fatherofheroesandheroines 5 месяцев назад

This is my ringtone lol. It's always funny to see new people react to this absolutely insane song lol.

@cooloutdoor7008 3 месяца назад

I use to take my grand daughter to pre school when she was 4 years old and I would play this song to get pumped up for work after a few days of rocking out and singing it I happened to look in the rear view mirror and my grand daughter was singing every word. I almost had to pull over because I was laughing so hard.

@betsyduane3461 6 месяцев назад

This is a version of an old southern blues song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, but it is way older.

@jasonremy1627 6 месяцев назад

This song slaps so hard, you need a safe word.

@copperhopperwarren4788 6 месяцев назад

👍😹😹😹

@Mary-xo7ue 4 месяца назад

😂😂oh dang, excellent description 😂❤

@rafehr1378 6 месяцев назад

Bill Bartlett is one of the guitarists, he was in the "Lemon Pipers" band in the late 1960s, " Mr. Tamborine Man". Never stopped playing this tune.

@johnmadden2421 6 месяцев назад

That is worth looking up for the sheer contrast of styles. Lemon Pipers were sort part of the bubble gum scene compared to this Southern rock.

@BlackiePawless 6 месяцев назад

It was "Green Tamborine". Mr Tamborine Man was the Byrds.

@warrenbridges1891 6 месяцев назад

@@BlackiePawless Yeah. "Green Tambourine" was more psychedelic.

@RobertERensch 5 месяцев назад

Green Tambourine would be the title. The Byrds did the Dylan tune you name. ✌️

@dvsreed 6 месяцев назад

I watched a documentary about this song. It's a really old song, possibly revolutionary war era old. There are old recorded versions from the 1930's. Ram Jam played it faster and added a few lines. Several theories about what it means but most agree that it was about a musket rifle. Guns at that time were wildly inaccurate. The bam a lam is the sound of the gun, child gone blind is the musket ball going off target, it was not mine is saying not my fault, somebody else's shot. Ram Jam probably meant the lyrics to mean something else.

@wiseguysoutdoors2954 6 месяцев назад

One of the greatest one hit wonders ever!! Kathy, you hit the nail right on the head!!

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Yes, it was!

@Zealdave2223 6 месяцев назад

Spiderbait did a great cover too and it was in the movie Miss Congeniality 2, with Sandra Bullock.

@steveg9088 4 месяца назад

So cute the 550 mark all three start bobbing their heads in sync lol.

@glenngunnis6642 5 месяцев назад

A blast from the past!🤘🎸

@danhollatz5944 5 месяцев назад

Most underrated band in USA!

@kirby1ist 3 месяца назад

During Covid my friends, they have a band , they did many, many backyard concerts irl and over RU-vid as well. I have always loved this song, thanks ladies.

@uncle2toofs866 3 месяца назад

granny's reaction is priceless.

@dvdmakinson 6 месяцев назад

those were the days.

@frankzahn295 6 месяцев назад

I loved your laughter, so real. This is how I learn this song. 1 verse is about a black powder gun that goes 0ff "wild" gun slang. 2 verse is about liquor 3 verse is about a woman.

@janetveazey7212 3 месяца назад

Donna's reaction is priceless 😊

@Drahculia 2 месяца назад

Rock music nightclubs I'd go to in the early and mid and late 1980s ALWAYS played this song. The dancefloor would ALWAYS be filled. Hearing this song start always caused a lot of excitement in rock nightclubs in the 1980s (in "Ehhd-Inn-Bra"/Edinburgh, Scotland/"Sco-Lun"). 1980s: Wild times, wild people. Having "a boogie" to this rough-edged old 1977 song.

@AardvarkXyzzy440 Месяц назад

Got to number 7 in the British charts in 1977!

@williammcdonald3922 6 месяцев назад

"What was she ready for? I don't know. A baseball game? I doubt it." Classic guys.

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Lol

@shanestandorf7213 7 дней назад

Start your day every morning with this song, you'll never have a bad day!!!!!

@pattibrown2939 5 месяцев назад

Loved dancing to this song in the 70s .

@baronofgreymatter14 6 месяцев назад

We had so much fun back then...btw there is a longer version with a good guitar solo in it

@davaughan100 6 месяцев назад

You would think this is some guys from the South, but the band was based on Long Island New York. The video was filmed at their house in Nassau County.

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Wow

@gbulmer 4 месяца назад

Donna looked so very happy! 😂 It's a joy seeing your joy. They were essentially one-hit-wonders. But what a hit!! 👍👍

@JonKorpi-fk7yo 15 дней назад

I'm 53 and my first radio memory is blackbetty

@jacobscreek1000 6 месяцев назад

Ladies, the reaction of the 3 of you to that has made me chuckle. Keep picking bangers

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Will do

@dagmar.6954 6 месяцев назад

"Black Betty" was Ram Jam's only big hit in 1977. But it is one of the most fun & energetic songs. Just some dudes hanging out in someone's back yard & jamming out. Love it! "Black Betty" is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. While some may think “Black Betty” refers to a woman, others claim it’s a nickname for any number of objects, including a bottle of whiskey, a whip, or even a penitentiary transfer wagon.

@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 6 месяцев назад

@teritops 4 месяца назад

Someone on another channel explained this: This is an old revolutionary war marching song the soldiers used to call muskets black Betty's they were made from the black walnut tree in Birmingham Alabama, this was before the famous Tennessee musket was created. They also carried a musket pistol they called it black Betty's child they would always malfunction and blow up in the soldiers faces that is the part of the song, the damn things gone blind in the early 1920s Leadbelly changed it around and actually made a song of it later in the 70s Ram Jam put their part into it by adding a verse and changing it around to a black women that he loved

@billross344 4 месяца назад

One of my all time favorite songs. Their reactions are so great! AND...now I know what the song is actually about!!

@Cargeorge996 6 месяцев назад

The lead singer/Guitarist is bill Bartlett. He built his first electric guitar at 13 before teaching himself how to play. Plus he's a Ohio native like me 😁

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the info

@Cargeorge996 6 месяцев назад

@@KathyLuluandDonna no problem ! 💯

@fellforit 6 месяцев назад

Donna's face lit up when the singing started, this song speaks to my old memories too. This video is a whole vibe.

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Yes, it is.

@user-sz9ik3tv5d 2 месяца назад

LOL YOU ALL ARE SO FUNNY. "BLACK BETTY IS A REAL CLASSIC SONG . GLAD YOU ALL FINALLY GOT TO HEAR IT.

@Drahculia 2 месяца назад

Typing in UPPER CASE = 'Shouting'. Could you maybe type in a LARGER typeface? We didn't quite hear you.

@user-sz9ik3tv5d 2 месяца назад

@@Drahculia IT SHOWS YOUR SMALL MIND SET. EXPAND YOUR MIND, AND STOP BEING A SHEEP. BAAAAAAAA AAAAAAA

@abevillanueva1974 3 месяца назад

LOVED Donna's reaction!! It just brought back so many memories of that song back in the day I'd bet!!

@kevinmarshall854 6 месяцев назад

Black Betty was why they called the flint type pistols in the 1700's and pirates times.

@jeffjohnson9911 6 месяцев назад

Bill Bartlett, the one singing, was the former Lead guitarist for The lemon Pipers. Howie Blauvelt, on the bass, was formerly in The Hassels with Billy Joel.

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Wow

@jeffjohnson9911 6 месяцев назад

....also, this is the short version.

@kfh1 6 месяцев назад

Well, that was a Great Reaction Ladies, really made me smile!!! Some of the greatest were recorded back in the 70's!!!

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@AP-RSI 2 месяца назад

Classic... music from my childhood!

@joejohnston3591 6 месяцев назад

It's a 1970's remake of an old 1920's chain gang song.

@Chris-jv1zo 6 месяцев назад

Another great classic, this song just wants you to stomp your feet and move along, another great for Lulu to experience. Kathy and Donna you are amazing.

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thanks

@stevetanner3019 6 месяцев назад

One of the best rock one hit wonders of the 70’s

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Agree

@jamiebarlow6285 5 месяцев назад

Brilliant to see how happy music can make people.

@jasonremy1627 6 месяцев назад

Huddy Ledbetter is the real name of the old blues singer otherwise known as Leadbelly. This is all old song indeed. Leadbelly probably wrote it based on much older songs as well.

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for info

@bert0522 6 месяцев назад

Thats the only version I own. Jim

@timjones8377 6 месяцев назад

This is the radio cut..the album version has a wild jamming interlude .. loved y'all's reaction 😁

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thanks

@UltraFlea 3 дня назад

the lass on the right is my spirit animal lol

@danielkarlsson258 5 месяцев назад

I love the excitement from the lady to the right! 😄

@metalmark1214 6 месяцев назад

Since you enjoyed this, in the same vein, I'd recommend Lynryd Skynyrd - Gimmie Three Steps, Black Foot - Train Train, Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' Disaster, UFO - Doctor Doctor I'm sure you'll like these.

@msh3218 6 месяцев назад

Also, That Smell and Simple Man by Lynryd Skynyrd and anything by Boston!

@JazzDrummer1946 5 месяцев назад

You're better than Spotify.

@stevenewcomer8837 6 месяцев назад

If you liked that one you’ll love their song “Keep Your Hands On the Wheel”. 😂

@cindysimpson1046 5 месяцев назад

Glad you all loved it! Best video ever of the 70's. Such a banger!

@sosguy1893 4 месяца назад

Black Betty was a civil war rifle and this is a blues song about it.

@kevinmarshall854 6 месяцев назад

Yes RAM JAM never made it big but this song was as their one big hit.

@robbiemillar704 6 месяцев назад

They only had two albums and they both rocked but this was their only hit. Gone Wild off their second one would be interesting to see you listen to. By the way, this is a shortened version for radio and video. Listen to the full version off their first album. The solo section will knock your socks off 👍🍻🇨🇦

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thanks

@PriscillaV1964 5 месяцев назад

This song is old, centuries old. "Black Betty" was a term for Whiskey. Black Betty's "child" is Moonshine.

@alejandromoralesgonz 3 месяца назад

Grandma, you are awesome!

@bluesfingers1 6 месяцев назад

Awesome reaction from you all and in particular Donna almost couldn't keep in her seat😅 Great tune from a bygone Era. I am 61 and remember and still listen to this timeless Jam. On another note I was sharing with my younger sister a little about Lulu's goats as we grew up on a hobby farm and that include 5 goats. Mrs. Cooper(you didn't dare turn your back on her lol not after the first time. Set of horns) then there was baby and her 3 kids Poppy, Petunia and Pansie. Of course all the othe usual suspects of horses, cows chickens and geese were present. My younger ❤ sisters were the keeper of the goats. Good memories so keep up the great reactions as this one was over the top entertaining. Bluesfingers1

@KathyLuluandDonna 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much. Donna did love this video. Those were some cute names for goats.

@LaptopLarry330 6 месяцев назад

The song is a prison work song. Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter, who was an early-20th Century Blues/Folk music singer who had served time in prison for two separate murders that he did not commit (he was released both times on appeal) learned the song there, and recorded the song in 1939, and got the copyright credit for the song. In 1977, Ram Jam added two new verses to the song, but gave the full songwriting and copyright to Ledbetter’s estate.