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.
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.
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?
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 👍🏼
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.
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.
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!👏🏼
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✌❤🎶
@@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 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.
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.
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+++++++
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.
@@toddstevens13 sorry not Canadian, maybe someday. A cool thing about these guys is that they run their own UA-cam channel and will answer comments almost immediately. After all this time I think that is fantastic.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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...
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
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.
"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.
In answer to your question at 7:55 or so... here's the live version of them performing it in a backyard jam/party : ua-cam.com/video/I_2D8Eo15wE/v-deo.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" ?
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!!
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".
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!
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!
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?
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!
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.
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 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.
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 UA-cam 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.
@@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.
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!
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.
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. 😎🥰 🙌
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.
"I wonder if they could do this live.. . . . and make it natural!" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 . . . just wait . . . LOL Live is even soooooo much better. Um . . . They were jammin', bros!
Finally I agree with you guys. I'm in Australia and this song makes me feel like I know Betty and I'm from Alabama. I'm 52 and I love this song, an Australian band covered it and had a big hit.
This song is legendary and yes the bangyist of bangers. Truly. It gets played all over the place, whichi s why you may have heard bits of it before, but it is particularly popular at sporting events - almost as popular as Queen's We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions. And of course great reaction!
A work song used by railroad workers 100 years ago. Made famous by the bluesman Leadbelly in 1939. These guys put out a shorter version video done in the backyard. The only member still alive is the drummer.
I cannot begin to explain how endlessly entertaining these videos are. You guys look like you're on a rollercoaster of music which is just perfect. Either that or like you guys are high off your minds on some reality warping drugs, which is also very much on theme. 😂
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!!! 🙌🏻🔥
Love you guys but this song sucks. Please don't do it! Lol.
ua-cam.com/video/I_2D8Eo15wE/v-deo.html. Must see video of band playing Black Betty in someone’s back yard
@@gayleshatzkes8184 yeah, THIS video is essential to what a 70s backyard party jam was.
VicMikesvideodiary no .....couldn’t agree more ✌️ it’s Jam-A-Lame-A
So glad you took our suggestions 😊
My mom, god rest her soul, had this as her ringtone. She forgot to turn off her phone and received a call during church. From Alabama
This seriously made me laugh out loud! 🤣
Haha alabama here too
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.
😂😂
Epic lol
I love it how you guys play the tune out, instead of pausing a song every fucking other second to talk. Glad you guys save any commentary at the end.
This song comes on in the car...you have a excellent chance of driving a whole lot faster than you should be!
Getting an early Christmas gift from Mr Officer of the Law. I’m sure it’s happened many time to this tune.
This song and " Radar Love:" both will get you into trouble while your driving. Its that hard pounding, persistent beat.
This has always been the song that makes me speed lol
This song, and "I Can't Drive 55", which I never can do out on the open road , even at 69 years old!
Yes, true it makes speeding feel legit, so does most AC/DC songs
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.
Perfect song, perfect band.
It IS insanely difficult to play. Especially the drums.
Watching Ram Jam jamming this song in the back yard of their parents house adds context to how cool these guys actually were!
They spent all the money for the video on beer lol
@@deanovanno And weed
Ram Jam great !
I hope they play the music video shot in a backyard
Nah dude, that one, cool as it is, is too short.
The video cracks me up! It totally looks like the band my uncle had in the 70's, the lead singer looks like my cousin Bill too ;) LoL!
Need the longer version!!
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!
The video version has no guitar solo...so the album version is far better !
Now it's time to do - The James Gang - "Funk #49", "Walk Away", "The Bomber"
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.
Seems to me you don't wanna talk about it.
I've been suggesting these same songs for months!
i got to see the james gang long ago..glad i did
The Guess Who - "No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature"
Not very banger, but I listen to it every couple of weeks.
great suggestion
"American Woman"
Preferably, the full-length version of this song
@@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?
I like "Your Eyes" and "No Time"... they'll get to them soon I bet.
I've seen a dozen reactions to the backyard video version, but this was the first time I've heard this longer version- Awesome! 🙂
THANK GOD!!! You guys just won, for best reaction video, the only video that plays the extended version of this song, HELL YES!!!
This song was played at least once, and usually more than once, at every high school keg party in the ‘70’s.
Can we have a moment of silence for the high school keg parties of the '70's. RIP. Those were the days.
AS it should
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 don't know ANYONE that doesn't LOVE this song! For sure the video MUST be watched!!!
Your facial expressions throughout the song... priceless. Love seeing younger people experience songs I've loved for years. Thanks guys.
Babes in the woods no longer 😊
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 👍🏼
You ever hear Hocus Pocus by Focus , gave them 4 minutes to play a 6 minute song they did it really well
Me too.
Same here. That was new to me too.
I've never heard this version either. I appreciate that it's longer but it's not better. Quality over quantity.
I'd never heard this version either. HOnestly? I prefer the shorter one.
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.
You never get tired of hearing this.heard it 15 times, first time with the long version. Now watch it live.Brilliant
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!
Jamel reacted to it a couple days ago
@@skydog6376 Saw that! Hoping the boys jump on that train.
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.
Great song!
There is a live version
This is a remake of an old blues tune. I believe it was by Leadbelly.
ua-cam.com/video/SJUSGuNxt-4/v-deo.html
I'm pretty sure it was old when Leadbelly got to it.
@@mookie7688 I just read on Wikipedia that it was first recorded in 1934 and Leadbelly recorded it in 1939.
@@mookie7688 It was - it was a variation on a marching song used by the British army before the American Revolution
It's an old Tom Jones track ua-cam.com/video/XXl98QQcVxM/v-deo.html :P
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!👏🏼
I can't believe you've not heard any of these legendary rock songs before?! You are SO lucky to be able to hear them for the first time. Enjoy!!
You should watch the music video of them playing this song out in their front yard. 🤣 🔥🤘
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✌❤🎶
Not bad for a 50 year old performance of a 100 year old song, eh?
😍😍😍😍
Certainly puts forward the impact of the packaging!
It's an old Leadbelly song.
@@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.
Diomedene: A 40 year old song kid.😂
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.
So fun to be gen X watching younger generations hearing this stuff 🙌
It's even better being a boomer
Best compliment I’ve ever heard: Alex-“it’s like going to Chipotle and getting extra guac and they don’t charge you for it”. Awesome!!
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.
What?
@@Meandmymirror Where? Who? Why?
LOL
Huh 🤔 ?
@@dianegoldeneye7363 What?🤮
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+++++++
We're the Real Ones!
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@Catherine
LOL!! Now That’s THAT’S what I’m talkin’ about people!!! 🙌🏻😂🔥
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.
Alex: “they definitely just drank, like 18 Bud Lights and went ‘Bam-a-lam’ “ I’m now on the floor... trying to stop laughing...
Dude, this entire review by them still has me laughing hysterically 🤣😂🤣😂🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
She's from Birmingham, Way Down in Alabam. Best one hit wonder ever!!
If you saw the movie "Blow" . They use this song.
My favorite one hit wonder is from the Kings...This Beat Goes On/Switching To Glide
@@patrickq7489 Ahh another Canadian heard from perhaps? They are still showing up here and there from their Haunt in Southern Ontario.
I think this was in the Dukes of Hazzard movie as well
@@toddstevens13 sorry not Canadian, maybe someday. A cool thing about these guys is that they run their own UA-cam channel and will answer comments almost immediately. After all this time I think that is fantastic.
@@patrickq7489 My mistake, and apologies. Stay Safe Patrick.
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.
Total exuberant JOY. Why these guys aren't superstars is beyond me. So glad to see their most well known track getting the recognition it deserves.
JUST CAME HERE to see if Alex and Andy gave this song to the 80s lol They do by the hand fulls
When this came on at an outdoor keg party in the day everyone was singing, dancing, spilling beer! You guys would've loved it!!
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.
This is such a great song. So many grooves.
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
Ten Years After!! "Sssssh"
IMO, If You Want To Get To Heaven by OMD's is better.
Love ten years after. I'm sure they'd like them. Hope they check them out
Totally agree with "Hypnotized " Fleetwood Mac, and don't forget "Oh Well part 1" also pre Buckingham Nicks
YES on all counts👍🏼 Haven't thought of a couple of these in a while .. thnx for that reminder. Now I gotta go take a listen 😊🤘🏼
When this tune came out, I was dating a black girl named Betty. Riding in my Lincoln, we used to crank it when it came on the radio. Good times!
Alvin Lee and Ten Years After, LIVE at Woodstock, Goin' Home Perhaps the hardest driving live performance ever captured on film!
I do declare!!!!!!😂😂😂👍👍
I second that!
And Soul Sacrifice by Santana but on youtube they always cut the full drum solo.
I really like 10 years after. My baby left me is one of my favorite songs by them
Oh, you got the FULL version. Thank you.
This is the first reaction where they didn't just play the short version. That's awesome. I loved the 70's and 80's
THIS IS A 70s Party Dont mention the 80s to this song , PLEEEEEEASE , LOL All in fun
Still waiting for Molly Hatchet's "Flirtin' with Disaster"...
I was thinking the same thing! I love their cover of Dreams also!
One of my favourite bangers of all time. The boys have to listen to this one for sure.
Oh yeah, me too!! That song ROCKS. MH's FWD & RJ's BB lift me out of whatever funk I might be in when listening to them. 😎👍
Yes!
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.
Im glad you guys are not reacting to the radio edit, the solo makes it legendary
TOTALLY!
I heard Alice Cooper once mention the solo is one of his all time favorites.
Unfortunately A and A played the radio edit for Foghat's Slow Ride. Not the same song without the jam!
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.
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.
Not only can "they do it live" - they can do it live in some random dude's backyard.
It was the lead singer's gf's house
@@melanisticmandalorian yet another "internet fact" that has no basis in reality
@@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
@@jmleaf8102 Good luck - people like that never do.
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.
"We're not gonna get into the lyrics?" That's the funniest thing I'm going to hear all day!
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic. Talk about mature music, this is it!
They just have to do that one. The sax solo is great.
Second that one.
I third it! Classic traffic. Long but any good journey is.
Oh God! Paleeeeez
I'm SO happy they hit Traffic! Steve Winwood is the most unassuming rock GOD in the business. Really hoping for them to do Blind Faith.
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...
Black Oak Arkansas hot rod
Your giggle of glee when he started singing was all the reaction needed! Gave me a much needed boost today.
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
If you didn't watch the official video, you must. It is part of the experience 😂
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.
This is about a musket from the Civil War, from the 30's.
! In his grandparents backyard!
We had so much fun back then. Still jammin'!
You don't get the solo which is the best part
Singer/lead player was from The Lemon Pipers of “Green Tambourine” infamy.
"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.
Robert Rensch omg! didn’t know that
Really? Didnt know that.
I never knew that, and I love both songs!
Stephen Ulmer, listen to a Lemon Pipers track called “Through With You” if you haven’t heard their Green Tambourine album.
In answer to your question at 7:55 or so... here's the live version of them performing it in a backyard jam/party : ua-cam.com/video/I_2D8Eo15wE/v-deo.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" ?
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!!
Yeah, as I recall, that was not live... just a low-budget music video.
Weeee!. That was crazy. So much fun to enjoy with you.
Killer Riff, dude's voice is Sick!🤣
It definitely has that Backyard, Trashcan Punch vibe! A real Summer hit!
ROCK MAN!!!
Y'ALL BE COOL AMIGOS!
Watch the original video that comes with this song, and notice how scary correct you are hehehe :D
@@j0hnn13K Filmed in beautiful Hicksville, NY
I was reading there taped it for $13 to buy some 'M" for the day :))
Congratulations for hitting over
70,000 now, you deserve it ! ❤
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".
They deserve millions.
@@randyhodges8782 Not joking, during quarantine, sometimes their videos are the only way I know what day it is!
Always loved this song just due to the rawness of the tone and the riffs, so good
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!
this was so cool - I've only seen the video version and didn't realize how long and slappin that solo was! great!
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!
Great reaction guys!🎸🎶
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?
David Terry I agree. Awesome song.🤟
One of my favorites.
I have to admit that I did not notice the reaction to the song at all. I just rock out to this song like I do every single time I hear it.
Don't Call Us We'll Call You!!
I definitely agree! ❤that song!
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!
Damn! I missed it! Glad you did this song. Really glad you liked it! ✌️♥️
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.
Great suggestion ! Two more one-hits from the same timeframe - "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears and "Switchin' To Glide" by The Kings
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.
Indeed. But the tracks gotta be from STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT🤘💯🙏
Yea, agreed. Rock Bottom from Strangers in the Night is a must.
@@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.
Keith Armstrong agreed. Great tunes! But the live album may be more sonically explosive than any other live record of all-time. It’s crazy! 👊🤘👍💯🙏
He's right Ya know!!
Tha damn thing gone wild!!! god i cant wait to get home from work tomorrow and see you guys rock to this one! BANGER FO SHO!!!
"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.
Video of this song is a must see
Backyard....
This was the entrance music for the hockey team when I was in college- so good!!
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.
Excellent! Well done - good history lesson and makes the song more interesting
James "Iron Head" Baker had his acapella version recorded 6 years before Leadbelly's. It's the first known recording.
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 UA-cam 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.
This song is steeped in history going back to the civil war and earlier. To much to type about here. Look it up!
Eight year old me had this on 45! I remember jamming to this in my basement on my little record player. This, and the Theme From SWAT.
Easily the best version of this song, that breakdown and solo is perfect
This is how us 70s brats Rocked Is every other decade JAIL US LOL
This is such a fun song. Love to see some more Zappa......Montana or Zomby Woof (both have killer guitar solos).
Zappa one of a kind. So much to choose from. I believe a couple of singers from the Turtles sang with Zappa, not sure when.
I imagine the title track of "Apostrophe" may well leave them an orange slice deficit.
@@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.
Man I was eighteen when this came out, riding around the Indiana countryside.
Jeffrey Rigby what ship? I was on the Texas out of Norfolk during that time
Southwestern Indiana here.................. Mt.Vernon freshman in HS when i first heard this
NW Indiana here and I was 9 when this came out and I loved it. The whole album was pretty good stuff.
New Castle Indiana here 😎
I still remember where I was the first time I heard this song in ‘77. It was only decades later that I learned it was a cover of a Leadbelly song
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!
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.
Finally someone reacting to the extended version, and when I say extended I mean semi extended because there’s a longer version than this too
Day drinking with ram jam ✌️
But you totally need to check out the music video, much shorter but the same energy
This was great. Love it. One thing I need to say is that Andy certainly wins when it comes to range of facial expressions. ❤️
@Mary Klacik
Yeah I’ve got literally no filter at all 😂😂🙌🏻🔥
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. 😎🥰 🙌
@@maryklacik5358 Absolutely!
Do "Time of The Season" Next. Hell yeah! Zombies!
Your first reaction has been the reaction of people since the 70's when they first hear this, whoaaaaaa hahahahahahaha
If you can play this song while driving and NOT speed, you are among the undead.
Today is the day "Orange Slice" became the new "This is a banger" comment on your posts.
The fact that Alex already had a safe word is a little disturbing .
@Patrick Quill
Yeah he was definitely a little too ready for that, he’s pretty quick but I don’t know man.. 😂🙌🏻🔥
Quick, come up with something like I heard orange slice in a movie!
@@patrickq7489 And yet, somehow not surprising
@@loosilu no, no not surprising at all.
The banger of bangers would be Children of the Sun by Billy Thorpe
Cheers from Australia...
Yes, and a MUST for headphones.
I agree but definitely you gotta have headphones to truly appreciate it.
Most people I know goes alright too
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.
"I wonder if they could do this live.. . . . and make it natural!" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 . . . just wait . . . LOL
Live is even soooooo much better. Um . . . They were jammin', bros!
You have GOT to watch the video that goes with this song!!!!
Finally I agree with you guys. I'm in Australia and this song makes me feel like I know Betty and I'm from Alabama. I'm 52 and I love this song, an Australian band covered it and had a big hit.
This song "is" timeless. It's been recorded since maybe the 1930's and lord knows when it was written.
I heard it was a Leadbelly song.
Yep, Leadbelly. Black Betty may have been code for a whip, or a train, or hooch.
Bachman Turner Overdrive - "Roll on Down the Highway"
Please! No bto! Haha
"You aint seen nothing yet"
Awesome you reacted to long version it rocks 🤘🤘🤘🤘
I've loved this one since high school! Definite road trip banger. That version was done in 77 but it's really old like 1930's old.
This song is legendary and yes the bangyist of bangers. Truly. It gets played all over the place, whichi s why you may have heard bits of it before, but it is particularly popular at sporting events - almost as popular as Queen's We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions. And of course great reaction!
A work song used by railroad workers 100 years ago. Made famous by the bluesman Leadbelly in 1939. These guys put out a shorter version video done in the backyard. The only member still alive is the drummer.
When I was young my mom would get so mad at me for listening to this song as loud as I could. I loved it and so good to hear it again.
You need to watch the live version in a backyard it's definitely as good or better live I'm from the 70's no better 🎸 rock ever!
I cannot begin to explain how endlessly entertaining these videos are. You guys look like you're on a rollercoaster of music which is just perfect. Either that or like you guys are high off your minds on some reality warping drugs, which is also very much on theme. 😂
Bangers: "Night Of The Gypsy Queen," by APRIL WINE . "Fire Woman" by the Cult.
Truth.