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  • @tammyjackson3113
    @tammyjackson3113 Рік тому +165

    Rumor has it they were paid in beer and weed. We had a blast in the 70's.

    • @karowak1
      @karowak1 Рік тому +1

      Jell yeah

    • @Booderman
      @Booderman Рік тому +7

      Paid $200 for beer & weed !

    • @danadnauseam
      @danadnauseam Рік тому +7

      Bill Bartlett has said they were working on their first album when their manager told them to get their gear to record the viedo for someone in England who had requested it. They drove to the bass player's parents' or girlfriend's house (if I recall correctly) on nIsland, shot the video, and went home. Bartlett never saw the final edit until nearly 40 years later when his dentist showed it to him.

    • @Pahdopony
      @Pahdopony Рік тому +1

      @@danadnauseam I know Bill Bartlett's brother Jim. 😀

    • @angelabordack
      @angelabordack Рік тому +1

      We were still jamming this in the 80’s too 🤟

  • @Karin7165
    @Karin7165 11 місяців тому +30

    I love watching younger people hear this song for the first time...i grew up listening to music like this and i love that people are finding it and appreciating it all these decades later...southern rock from the 70's and 80's is just the best!

  • @davidw7
    @davidw7 Рік тому +38

    A One Hit Wonder.... but what a HIT.... and video that will remain timeless as a group of kids in a backyard.

  • @bonnievonbraun6276
    @bonnievonbraun6276 Рік тому +98

    Actually, cadence is a good description. This song was based on a very old work song/marching song. I believe the first recording was done at a prison in 1933, where a road gang sang it for song collectors. The convicts referred to the gang boss's whip as "Black Betty", but there are many other interpretations. Whiskey jug? Musket? Camp follower? Similar songs were used by Gandy Dancers (railroad rail maintenance gangs). Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly) recorded it for general release in 1939.

    • @danadnauseam
      @danadnauseam Рік тому +3

      Bill Bartlett (the singer in this version) added the second and third verses. He has said that he was thinking of a picture of 40's pinup model Betty Page wearing black.
      Ram Jam only lasted for two albums and never had another hit. In fact, this record was made before the group was formed, and when Bartlett was signed, the producers remixed a version he had released with his previous band to get the hit.
      There is a live performance by Bartlett from a few years ago available on UA-cam.

    • @bonnievonbraun6276
      @bonnievonbraun6276 Рік тому +1

      @@danadnauseam Didn't Bartlett run into some issues with the Ledbetter family over this song? I seem to recall seeing Bill (in front of the same house!) talking to some reporter . . .

    • @danadnauseam
      @danadnauseam Рік тому

      @@bonnievonbraun6276 The Ledbetter estate refused credit for the additional verses. but it's noted on the Starstruck release.

    • @kierstenridgway4634
      @kierstenridgway4634 Рік тому +1

      Nice info.

    • @obijon7441
      @obijon7441 Рік тому +5

      As I understand it, Black Betty originally referred to a flintlock musket made by Birmingham Small Arms company in Alabama. Black Betty's child that went wild and blind refers to the musket balls it fired that were notoriously inaccurate.

  • @racing2cat
    @racing2cat Рік тому +34

    I have only one complaint about this song - why is it so damned short?! Great reaction and you earned a new sub.🙂❤

    • @jimsalhoff233
      @jimsalhoff233 Рік тому +3

      there is a longer version off the album

  • @meme-ls7ft
    @meme-ls7ft Рік тому +38

    You can't help but want to dance every time you hear this song...I don't think there's ever been another song quite like this one🔥🔥🔥😎👍

  • @justkaron
    @justkaron Рік тому +5

    Song known as the banginist banger that ever banged.

  • @TheDivayenta
    @TheDivayenta Рік тому +13

    Huddle “ Leadbelly” Ledbetter popularized this back in the 30’s too. It’s a marching cadence or “ Jody”.

  • @BoxerRick
    @BoxerRick 4 місяці тому +3

    These guys was probably so lit they didnt remember making the video. 😂😂✌️❤️ from Ky

  • @newgrl
    @newgrl Рік тому +6

    Plenty of certified Southern Rock bands out there to listen to. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, 38 Special, The Allman Brothers, CCR (Credence Clearwater Revival), ZZ Top, 38 Special. All of them have something good to listen to.

  • @BlazeLeber
    @BlazeLeber 7 місяців тому +3

    Black Betty is the love of his life.

  • @Xcris_crosX
    @Xcris_crosX Рік тому +6

    MANY ideas of its origin including a 1700s military marching cadence of their black painted stock flintlock musket. There’s an old b&w 1930s video of a black chain gang prisoner, James “Iron Head” Baker, singing his version of it

  • @danielandersson7485
    @danielandersson7485 Рік тому +8

    There's southern delta in this , absolutely.Some rock n rock, pinch of funk... might even find some bluegrass in there, a remarkable song

  • @pattitheisen2787
    @pattitheisen2787 10 місяців тому +2

    Originally recorded by Ledd Belly in 1937. Album called Negro Sinful Songs. Said to be a song sung in the cotton fields while picking.

  • @ronaldmariano1888
    @ronaldmariano1888 Рік тому +10

    There is a longer version of this on the record album itself!!

  • @Angelabout1
    @Angelabout1 6 місяців тому +2

    I like " Hey Boogie woman"!

  • @timlackey5996
    @timlackey5996 Рік тому +2

    There is actually several meanings to BLACK BETTY your favorite RIFLE, the girl you know you can KICK IT WITH such as he is singing about.

  • @dianaklien1560
    @dianaklien1560 Рік тому +2

    I love that: “rock music and like, southern drawl into it”. Great description! PS everybody wishes it was longer.

  • @YagyuAdventures
    @YagyuAdventures 6 місяців тому +2

    She DOES make him sing !!
    🎶🎵💖💖💖🔥

  • @judithnorwood267
    @judithnorwood267 Рік тому +4

    Black Betty was a musket gun. Historical song

  • @jameslee9906
    @jameslee9906 Рік тому +17

    This song was written by Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter). Leadbelly was in prison for murder when he sang a song for the governor of Louisiana who then released him. Leadbelly wrote Goodnight Irene and many other great songs. He got the inspiration for Black Betty from a road gang work song. You can find it on google.

    • @robertoser297
      @robertoser297 9 місяців тому +3

      No, Leadbelly covered it but it was a work song long before he recorded it.

  • @markdecker6190
    @markdecker6190 10 місяців тому +2

    According to Bill Bartlett himself, he was thinking of pinup girl Bettie Page from the 1940s when he wrote those lyrics. Black refers to the b&w photos of her.

  • @musictrickassb6574
    @musictrickassb6574 2 дні тому

    Love the shirt. I was born in 84.. got a Nintendo controller tattooed on my left wrist about a year ago. Lol.. and Mario jumping bricks at a huge red plant with teeth… 😂

  • @xxprettylittlethings
    @xxprettylittlethings Рік тому +3

    It's called Southern Rock. It's an off shoot of country.

  • @user-gy7me9gw8v
    @user-gy7me9gw8v 8 місяців тому +16

    black betty was actually refering to the musket they used in the civil war and the baby was an upgrade to the musket,,, when they say the damn thing went wild was refering to all the trouble with the ammo and the fireing mechanics of the gun,,,alabama was where the guns and ammo was made

    • @ryanstratford9247
      @ryanstratford9247 3 місяці тому +2

      What about when he says, she's shaking that thing?

    • @chloedevlin6544
      @chloedevlin6544 2 місяці тому +1

      Hahahahaha Absolutely not no

    • @ryanstratford9247
      @ryanstratford9247 Місяць тому

      @@chloedevlin6544 are you saying your talking about user what ever his name is?

    • @Cuffsmaster
      @Cuffsmaster Місяць тому +1

      There are many versions of this song even the one from the great "Leadbelly" but this one is about a black woman.

    • @chloedevlin6544
      @chloedevlin6544 Місяць тому

      @ryanstratford9247 This part of the comment section is in response to a comment so yes, I am responding to username whatever it is blah. Blah blah learn how to use comment sections, please.

  • @johneldridge8678
    @johneldridge8678 Рік тому +4

    Excellent reaction!!! Banger of a song.

  • @sidneycrossley7802
    @sidneycrossley7802 Рік тому +1

    Perfect. Them and you... Thanks

  • @workingman4918
    @workingman4918 2 місяці тому +1

    Most comments are they wish it was longer but that's what makes it perfect. Not all drawn out

  • @aussiegypsywarrior
    @aussiegypsywarrior Місяць тому +1

    It just leaves you wanting more.

  • @michaelflynn4397
    @michaelflynn4397 Рік тому +1

    the band was actually formed in long island, ny...this video was shot there

  • @marielaveau5321
    @marielaveau5321 Рік тому +8

    One of the classics I grew up hearing, I still love it. Glad you do too! I'd like to request you react to one of my favorite artists, he's country-ish but funky as hell. I've never seen anybody react to it, and I think you'd enjoy it a lot. Dude named Paul Cauthen, "Holy Ghost Fire". The official video, please. You'll want to look up the lyrics as well.
    Love your channel! 🥰✌️

  • @LindaMeloche-ih5lc
    @LindaMeloche-ih5lc Рік тому +1

    DAAAAMN that's hott!!!!

  • @HelynnHeels
    @HelynnHeels 10 місяців тому +2

    I would like to call attention to the bass on this song. Howie is carrying a full half of this tune. He is making some incredible sounds with that bass. Unfortunately, he passed away far too early. Incredible guy.

  • @vickielamere2950
    @vickielamere2950 Рік тому +1

    ITS BAD ASSSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @3Dsusan
    @3Dsusan 9 місяців тому +1

    there is a longer version of this video, the genre is Southern Rock , another example of that genre you might like is "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" by Georgia Satellites

  • @tnvalleyyoga7122
    @tnvalleyyoga7122 Місяць тому

    ROCK/BLUES. There are the blues and there's ladida. All modern music is rooted in the blues

  • @barbarataylor6265
    @barbarataylor6265 Рік тому +3

    Wow. I'm a new sub today. I'm 72 & a Canadian. I grew up in this era ..we had a different dance for almost every song. Serious Shit. I am loving your reaction. I feel the same everytime I hear that song. So I love that the song has the same efffect after all this time. I love all genres & I my happy song is Easy E Louisville Slugger. Love Eminem...but you mentioned Roy Orbison...you could hopefully get a chance to listen to him. He's a legend. & Leonard Cohen...The Cure...there's no end.

  • @hoserhouse5308
    @hoserhouse5308 2 місяці тому +1

    It's called SOUTHERN FRIED ROCK !

  • @juliaflanagan4148
    @juliaflanagan4148 7 днів тому

    When Bill Bartlett wrote these lyrics to Black Betty, he said, "My version is about Bettie Page. She’s not a black girl, she’s a pin-up queen from the fifties. She was the tops. She was my inspiration for writing the last two verses. I don’t know what Lead Belly was writing about. That’s up to anybody to guess. But music can be whatever you want it to be about. As long as you’re having a good experience listening to the music, I don’t care what you think it’s about.” Check out Bettie Page and you'll quickly figure out why Bill wrote what he did.

  • @linmonash1244
    @linmonash1244 Рік тому +3

    Try NOT to dance with this one on the turntable! Yes TURNTABLE! 🤣 And try not to make the needle arm jump out of it's groove and scratch the whole damn thing up beyond repair when everyone's pounding the floor to this beat. Remember? 😂🙃
    And don't forget to invite the neighbours to the party - otherwise there'll be pounding on the adjoining wall at 2am and a lot of screaming... and 'Disturbing The Peace' visits from local Police... Remember? Yeah - we'll blame it on Black Betty - Bambalam! 😆

  • @charliecochran3035
    @charliecochran3035 Рік тому +2

    I think the first verse alone, but possibly the second too, was a marching song from the civil war era about an inaccurate rifle. The last verse was added later, by Leadbelly or perhaps by men working on a chain gang laying railroad, I believe, and refers to a prostitute.

  • @costa1434
    @costa1434 8 місяців тому

    amazing piece. Maybe kind of southern as well but ... excellent. makes me remeber when I was young. good job mugnify

  • @ernestbivens7088
    @ernestbivens7088 10 місяців тому

    Lead Belly, American singer Huddie William Ledbetter, better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk and blues singer

  • @stonemansteveiii3135
    @stonemansteveiii3135 Рік тому +1

    Ledbelly wrote it, and it means 2 things. 1, a black woman, and 2, a cannon. As they were called black Betties back in the day.

  • @davidarnold9105
    @davidarnold9105 10 місяців тому +1

    "Black Betty" has many meanings and references, but in part, the girl, who is believed to be being referred to in the song was Esther Lee Jones "Baby Esther", a Black American singer and child entertainer, and the real inspiration for "Betty Boop" the character of 20th Century origins.

  • @markmcelheney7513
    @markmcelheney7513 9 місяців тому +1

    100% Pure Southern Rock!

  • @robertcurry122
    @robertcurry122 3 місяці тому +1

    There is an extended version 7 minutes 10 seconds long It's quiet the experience God bless you and yours

  • @fuzzballzz36
    @fuzzballzz36 Рік тому +21

    Fun fact: Bill Bartlett, lead guitarist and vocalist, is actually British! He looks like the Deep South personified but is from England. He's still performing today.

    • @TheDivayenta
      @TheDivayenta Рік тому +4

      Mr My Green Tambourine!

    • @danadnauseam
      @danadnauseam Рік тому +1

      Bartlett has said that the Lemon Pipers, his earlier band, faked their biographies because they thought admitting they were from Ohio was boring.

    • @fuzzballzz36
      @fuzzballzz36 Рік тому +1

      @@TheDivayenta that's true!

    • @fuzzballzz36
      @fuzzballzz36 Рік тому +2

      @@danadnauseam that makes me wonder. Every bio I've ever seen of him says he was born in South Harrow, Middlesex, including Wikipedia although it also says the Lemon Pipers were formed in Ohio.

    • @danadnauseam
      @danadnauseam Рік тому +3

      @@fuzzballzz36 He gave an interview in 2022, which can be found on UA-cam, where he said he was born in Dayton.

  • @johnwelsh6065
    @johnwelsh6065 Рік тому +2

    Great song. Just needed someone like the late Jeff Beck to add a superb guitar solo finale.

  • @tracyeaves1084
    @tracyeaves1084 2 місяці тому +2

    Black Betty is a gun

  • @redsologlass8768
    @redsologlass8768 Рік тому +4

    1rst verse, black mussel loader gun was notoriously inaccurate.
    2nd verse, fast black muscle car.
    3rd verse, sexy black woman .🍻😎👍

  • @johnlockhart1272
    @johnlockhart1272 7 місяців тому

    Its a very old folk song from the 1800s There was a gun called the Brown Bess and a Gun named Black Betty

  • @paulmaldonado3362
    @paulmaldonado3362 11 місяців тому

    Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter wrote this song in '39

  • @suzie4417
    @suzie4417 4 місяці тому

    The band went to a producer who gave them ~$500 to record their video, well out they went & bought some weed & booze and went out into backyard to sing their hearts out!! Some say it’s about a masters whip, or most say it is about an old time musket named Betty. This was a banger & played at parties indoors or outdoors 🎉💥💃💎🎸🥁

  • @badmojo90
    @badmojo90 Рік тому +1

    In the 1960s, the Wagon/Van that carried men to prison was known as "Black Betty."

  • @anitaherbert1037
    @anitaherbert1037 Рік тому

    Well that all depends where you are from I heard someone called black Conn on a ferry in Ireland in the 70s. He had black hair eyes and beard. So It could go either way.

  • @kennylattin9034
    @kennylattin9034 11 місяців тому

    When I was in Senior High School the rumor going around the term "Black Betty" was a reference to an illegal drug, 'Black Beauty".

  • @johnathandavis3693
    @johnathandavis3693 Рік тому +7

    I was a teen when I first heard this way back when. Yeah, it's based on an old song, but it was ALWAYS clear to me, that these guys were celebrating the idea of a woman that would be alot of fun to meet...I remember thinking "Man, I wanna meet Black Betty"...

  • @K9-Crazy
    @K9-Crazy Рік тому

    Man you made me smile 😃 6:07

  • @robbieh.chafin6202
    @robbieh.chafin6202 Рік тому +2

    Black Betty is a gun used during the Civil War

  • @boomer1954ful
    @boomer1954ful 6 місяців тому

    That song may have originated as far back as marching soldiers from *Birmingham, England!*.
    Black Betty has been attributed to a ton of various things from muskets, to whiskey (a lot of them still have black labels, ya know) to a work wagon, to heroin, to a hot woman.
    I believe Ram Jam’s jammin hard Rock-a-Billy version is obviously referring to a woman.

  • @garyeason2984
    @garyeason2984 Рік тому +1

    They have a video,and also a long version of the song, that's darn good.

  • @Jimmy55don
    @Jimmy55don Рік тому

    Black Betty is an old southern blues song not sure if the lyrics are completely the same but I have heard one old performance and by old I mean in the 30's.

  • @robbieh.chafin6202
    @robbieh.chafin6202 Рік тому +1

    Have you reached to Stevie Ray Vaughan before if not you would enjoy. He's one of the greatest guitarists of all time. I love Mary had a little lamb live where he's wearing a black and white shirt. He shows out in every performance.

  • @andreamoffitt2257
    @andreamoffitt2257 3 місяці тому

    Black Betty was the name for a civil war era musket they tweaked a few things and released the Black Betty’s child. Brown Bess. It was a dud impossible to aim straight, the damn thing run wild. I remember when this came out they said that their production manager asked them what they needed to make the video. The guys told them 200 bucks would do it. Then they promptly spent it all on weed to get in the zone and recorded the footage in the singer’s backyard

  • @jasonwood3197
    @jasonwood3197 19 днів тому

    My girl is phillipeano and she got my black betty! 😂😂q

  • @patriciaadams-rl4iz
    @patriciaadams-rl4iz Рік тому

    This is song about a rifle (musket). The gentleman that wrote it was black. And several radio stations wouldn't plat it. I don't think t made it to no.1. It should have. Great song

  • @TheDivayenta
    @TheDivayenta Рік тому +1

    Yes- that’s Southern style picking alright!

  • @bulletproofpepper2
    @bulletproofpepper2 2 місяці тому

    Black Betty is whisky, usually in a dark bottle. My grandfather told me that people would put whiskey in a cough syrup bottle and would mix it in with cough syrup that had medicine and other drugs in it.

  • @tiedyedsouthernfried3137
    @tiedyedsouthernfried3137 Рік тому +1

    This is a cover of an old old song. Prison workers on road gangs sang it. I think there's a Smithsonian recording of it from the 1930's

  • @rschneider77
    @rschneider77 5 місяців тому

    The first first verse is about a rifle.
    Second verse is about strong booze.
    Third verse is about a southern Nubian queen.
    From what I was told, the lyrics are old as dirt and origin from a military cadence that was used in one of the first world wars.

  • @robertkennett4622
    @robertkennett4622 11 місяців тому

    You ask the definitive question, the question everybody asks. I have watched dozens and dozens of reaction videos to "Black Betty". Just yesterday, I saw the absolute, complete explanation. It covers the 200 year history of "Black Betty", that's right two centuries. There is a man, Adam Reader, that has been covering Rock and Roll in every way for years now, if you watch the video I am about to list for you, you will know EVERYTHING there is to know about "Black Betty". Here is what you need to put in the "Search" box at the top of UA-cam's screen: 'The EXTENSIVE 200 Year Journey of This 1977 Hard Rock Classic | Professor of Rock'. Watch that fourteen plus minutes and you will be able to tell anybody that brings up the subject exactly what's what.

  • @steflevieuxcriss
    @steflevieuxcriss 6 місяців тому

    the original soung is from a man during slavery Lead Belly. He has quite a story of his own :)

  • @ripsnort8194
    @ripsnort8194 Рік тому

    So dope

  • @karinwolf3645
    @karinwolf3645 Рік тому

    This song is included on the movie, "Basic". Great song!! 💋💖💐

  • @DjOdyssey1971
    @DjOdyssey1971 Рік тому

    There is also another version you can find on You Tube of a longer version of Ram Jam doing this song.

  • @mitzydupre7172
    @mitzydupre7172 Рік тому

    It's a song from John and Allen Lomax in 1933. Go check it out.

  • @Blue_Dutchman
    @Blue_Dutchman 6 місяців тому

    Black Betty was a song sang by slave workers, referring to the the whip Black Betty.

  • @david_6063
    @david_6063 5 місяців тому

    There's a longer version, from an album, around 6 or 7 minutes I'd guess.

  • @frauleinmona
    @frauleinmona Рік тому +3

    It is absolutely about one heck of an amazing, black woman!😁👌💖

  • @rodb9275
    @rodb9275 Рік тому +8

    Great reaction. I DO love this version, but I wish more reactors would do the album version. It's a bit longer and has some more awesome instrumentals. You should check it out on your own, even if you don't react to it.

    • @foxchasejrt1
      @foxchasejrt1 Рік тому +4

      The extended guitar solo in the album version is incendiary!!

    • @MugnifyRTS
      @MugnifyRTS  Рік тому +5

      Man, I might have to take a listen.

    • @rodb9275
      @rodb9275 Рік тому +1

      @@MugnifyRTS ua-cam.com/video/-T2tnf23lyc/v-deo.html is a 7 min extended version. I don't know if it was remixed to make it longer? Because it's actually longer than the album version that I've heard before. That one is 4 minutes, compared to the 2 and a half minute one you watched. If you don't want to see the 7 min version (which really IS awesome) the shorter album version is : ua-cam.com/video/-T2tnf23lyc/v-deo.html

  • @ryanstratford9247
    @ryanstratford9247 3 місяці тому

    Fyi alot of these people saying its about a gun, this guys song is about betty page from the 50s, the guy said so himself in an interview.

  • @newgrl
    @newgrl Рік тому +6

    The meaning of "Black Betty" often changes with the singer as this is a very very old song. Although the first person to record is was Huddie Ledbetter in the 1930's, it was sung as early as the 18th century. Besides a black woman, it can also refer to a prisoner wagon, a slave whip, a gun, or a bottle of whisky.

  • @kathleenmayhorne3183
    @kathleenmayhorne3183 Рік тому

    There is supposed to be a longer more solos version somewhere.

  • @steve8510
    @steve8510 Рік тому +1

    Those hillbillies can rock

  • @garyeason2984
    @garyeason2984 Рік тому

    A Musket!reference of a gun!

  • @caronspeas2888
    @caronspeas2888 Рік тому

    Southern Rock is a recognized genre of music. Alabama, Pure Prairie League, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, ZZ Top, Black Oak Arkansas, etc.

  • @CandC68
    @CandC68 Рік тому

    The term goes back a couple hundred years to Ben Franklin's time. Over the years has meant many different things. The song only goes back a little less that a hundred years. LOL

  • @madatu
    @madatu 10 місяців тому

    You would have to ask Lead Belly what the song meant.

  • @scottprice8994
    @scottprice8994 9 місяців тому

    The best $500 music video of all time. Ha ha

  • @callelundberg6790
    @callelundberg6790 Рік тому

    There is a extended 7+ min version from the album

  • @theagingbeginner
    @theagingbeginner 2 місяці тому +1

    Adapted from a LEAD BELLY song.

  • @mabelyourmama9029
    @mabelyourmama9029 11 місяців тому

    He means it just like he sings it lol.

  • @chrissiler6075
    @chrissiler6075 Рік тому

    Where I grew up, you want to start the party, you play this at 11. And to close you play this at 3am. My brothers band had a 20 minute version, memories

  • @georgepaust8416
    @georgepaust8416 8 місяців тому

    Back in the 70s black beauties were the slang term for"uppers" or amphetamines. Depressants were known as"downers". Black Betty... Black beauties..."really gets me high and that's no lie".

  • @mikeplott4817
    @mikeplott4817 Рік тому

    Great Reaction 👍🙏👣

  • @jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344

    My uncle lived in Burmingham.

  • @rosesilveira344
    @rosesilveira344 Рік тому

    Just Southern boys jamming in the back yard with beer & weed. Previous comment was right. A black betty is a musket rifle.

  • @shirleyrichard-qv9lw
    @shirleyrichard-qv9lw 10 місяців тому

    Was live - in backyard

  • @byroncrump4431
    @byroncrump4431 Рік тому

    This beat is original. Dr Dre. The greatest beats of all time. First ballot Hall of famer. It's why he's sold beatz for a billion dollars.