How about it. We lived through some of the best music in all of time. From ALL genera's of music. Look how many songs from our era are still on the radio going strong after fifty years and more.
Try almost 50 years old. But look at the black reaction. I reckon someone who was paying for thesae guys was racist because the band in general didn't go anywhere. What a shame.
"Black Betty" was a cadence sung by black confederate soldiers during the civil war. Black Betty was a rifle made in Birmingham, Alabama. The company that made the gun made an "improved model", hence "Black Betty had a child". They hated the new rifle because it didn't shoot straight. Hence, "damned thing gone wild". Ram Jam put music to the 160-year-old cadence.
Tho, there where only 2 regiments(in name, not number) of black confederates, both where forcibly dissolved by the confederate federal government. 1 was made of primarily half white/half black soilders, who where apart of the aristocracy to a degree.
Funniest part about that, their manager actually asked them how much money they needed to make the video. The band requested and was given $200, their manager assumed this was for production costs. It was not, it was for $200 worth of weed to get them "in the zone" the video was recorded in a friend's front yard for free.
To haters ive never seen anyone hate this song. Its short awesome break downs catchy lyrics if they watched the video they know that band was hammered.
I can't take credit for these, but the best comments I've ever seen in regards to this song 1) If Mt. Dew was a person that is what he would look like 2) They had $500 to shoot the video and spent $450 on weed.
I worked at a state prison on 3rd shift back in the '90s, our warden was a black lady named, you guessed it, Betty. One night I was on foot patrol and suddenly this song began to ring out over the entire network of radios, AWA state police and other nearby institutions. It was glorious. As you might expect Betty was not amused and everyone who was carrying a radio that night was under close scrutiny. I don't recall ever hearing who did it.
I’m almost 70, and this song came out just after I graduated high school! LOVE to see so many young people in shock that such a great jam has been around for almost 50 years! We’ll….sit down, it been around for over 90 years!!! It was first recorded in 1933 by James “Iron Head” Baker!
Now I understand why I heard the song was about a gun in civil war times. I'm not even sure if that's totally accurate, but it now makes more sense. But still, it's definitely also about a girl.
Gotta figure many of these folks are younger and probably grew up on other types of music Unfortunately even though music is so available now on streaming still have to know what you're looking for This would have been on classic rock 🎸 stations for me Love seeing new generations and people discovering awesome music
You must remember the genre they are accustomed to is very limited and few within the dedicated hoards will seek out alternative real music. So yes I can see it.
Fun fact, their manager actually asked them how much money they needed for the music video. They responded 200 dollars, their manager assumed this was for production costs. It was not, it was for weed to get them "in the zone"
BACK in the 70s at the rollerskateorama rink, this joint would come on and the whole place would get lit. There's no decade like the 70s, the whole vibe changed by 82'
BEST DECADE EVER! Gravesend Bklyn! Great Food! Yamaha Mini Bikes! Gorgeous Babes! & Rock & Roll! Fondest of memories! Sadly 😢 Missed..NEVER Forgotten 😊
Y'all have this 53 year old white gal running down memory lane, jamming out and couch dancing with Y'all! So good to see the younger generation enjoying Black Betty! One of my favorite song's! Be Blessed 🙌 You made my day! I haven't laughed and had so much joy in my soul since before the covid lock down .. I needed this my soul needed this! Big Love ❤️
Its so cool that people who are completely different ages can all enjoy the same things, I'm 16 and I love dancing to this song and trying to learn the drums to it
I am an old man now. But 50 years ago there was a restaurant called Mariposa. On the main drag of along Post city spent many a night on all night bender sitting there running the needle through the record. Watching all the other crazy ranged to walk by. I guess you had to be there and if you were there you heard this song all night long. It was on that jukebox from the 1976 tour clean through the 1991 tour.
I heard this song thirty years ago for the first time. It came on the radio while I was riding with my dad in his truck and he cranked the volume and sang it flawlessly like he wrote the dam thing! I’ll never forget hearing it for the first time, what an awesome song! Thanks it brought back memories!
I LOVE seeing the young ones discover the music we lived our lives to. This is my all time fave genre of rock, of music and to see new generations loving it, too, is AWESOME!
This is what respect for cultures looks like. Celebrating each other without pandering. The song is a classic and is about loving no matter of race... The reviewers on this video didn't judge the band for their looks, they praised them for their art. Simple, appreciate people for what they contribute, regardless of what they look like.
This is an old work song. It was first recorded at a prison work farm in the 30s I think, then made commercial by Lead Belly king of the 12 sting (Nirvana famously covers “in the pines” by him as well). It has a rich history people should look into. Ram Jam made it rock though!
A lot of great southern rock bands big hits were all just old blues songs sped up. It is a winning combination. The old blues legends inspired so many greats, and the greatest of all, Hendrix.
Leadbelly is wonderful, but this song is way older, it started with an English folk song about the Brown Bess, a notoriously inaccurate, and slow to load, but easy to use Musket, which was copied in America as the Black Betty. From the very beginning the song had multiple meanings ie: about the musket itself, about getting drunk/high, about sexual exploits etc. But you have to remember that even though people may have been born hundreds of years before you, it doesn't necessarily mean they were less clever than you.
@@ligottispandemoniumcarniva7014 I just listened to it and I don’t hear the connection. If you have a version we should hear please post it! And I recognize it’s older than leadbelly- his recording just made it popular. I just know that it was a song that came out of the fields in the days when slavery was still legal. I was also under the impression that black Betty was commonly referred to a bottle of whiskey, which I do believe was originally Scottish, and then in early American folk lore it became a reference to the whip. Let me know what you think.
@@ericmojave6061 : Black Betty was a rifle that was well loved. It's "child" the brown Bess was despised. Bam a lam is the firing of the gun. Some things have been changed in the song to make it sound more like it's about a person.
@@shinobi1kenobi75 Alabama wasn’t a state until the civil war? Maybe the civil war instead of revolutionary? Either way I thought lead belly wrote this. Still think he’s the first to record it. I have to read more about this.
The sad thing, the most viewed version of this song isn't the whole song. Which is what most people react to, which is sad, because the full version is like double the length. And it takes the crazy up to 11 with that extra run time.
black betty was what they called joints in many places in the south. that is what the song is about. weed. imo at least. but it is based off an old song slaves sang while working and they also called the tassels at the end of whips black betties
This version was so short because it had to fit on a 45 rpm record, which was how music was sold and played on the radio back around 1970. If you bought the album (LP) there was a longer version of this song on it that really jammed ! All too often bands had to put out shortened versions of their songs until FM stations came along and the radio format changed.
Hey Jude by the Beatles came out on a 45 (also called a 7 single) and it was 8 minutes long. I heard the the radio stations prefered the shorter songs so they could fit in more advertisements
I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with my dad as a kid and got a CD of some of the greatest rock songs ever. Once this one came on, I had it on loop for I don’t know how long lmao
"F*** the music video budget we're shooting at granny's today she made apple pie." That is the best way I have ever heard someone sum up this music video
Every reactor needs to listen to the studio version of this song. You lose about a full minute of pure instrumental madness when you watch the video version. Song length is 3:58
Love seeing these folks react to this song for the first time. I’m old. I remember hearing this not long after it came out. I was, oddly, not much into listening to music at the time (I very much am now). I say, “oddly”, because I came from a somewhat musical family and I played music, even in semi-professional situations, even as a kid. So, it is weird that it took me a while to get exposed to a lot of music. But I *did* hear this one shortly after it was released and I absolutely loved it. It grooves. This was one of my favorite songs for at least two years solid. Thankfully, I didn’t wear out the vinyl and, in fact, all these decades later, I’ve still got the record. Phenomenal song.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching y’all comments!! I’m just love seeing people enjoying music of my era! Thank you so much!! You’ve helped lighten my depression! ❤
The UA-cam algorythm strikes again :) Fun compilation clip. And I'm very glad as a 40-something year old that my mom introduced me to her music from the moment I was able to listen to a song. Stuff like this, old soul, motown, rock 'n' roll, blues. The 60's, 70's, even the early 80's has so much to offer.
That video was excellent. I've watched it three times since last night. I love seeing people experiencing pure joy. It's just the most beautiful thing ❤️😍🤗
The song is a total jam, but the reactions were priceless! I had to watch twice to really appreciate it all. I didn't like this song, when it came out, when I was a kid. I think it was one of those songs that was more complicated and DIFFERENT than my young brain could process....I had to grow into it. The rhythm is rather primal, or tribal....really makes a person move.
I don't know how much work each of these compilations takes you, but keep doing them forever. This is the best way to get a nice spectrum of reactions all at the same time. Feels like getting to hear it with a whole group of people appreciating it for the first time.
Nice to see folks breaking out of their little corner of the music world and getting a taste of something different. There is SO much out there waiting to be heard.
I love these new complittions. Im 60 i grew up with this love that you guys are getting into the greatest music of all times the music from the last 70 years ;- ) my pops would argue that. 😊
I used to play this for my Black brothers before games!! ALL OF US HAD TO DANCE!!!!! COULDNT STOP OURSELVES!!! Love your reactions!!!! TOO GOOD!!! Needs to be mixed longer!!!
I am so happy that ram jam is fine again . I ran discos in the late seventies from my high school and that black Betty was always my opened song I was known for that for years I'm 58 down and that brings back memories and it makes me laugh I'm so happy the world gets really acquainted with them there's lots of great bands from the seventies look up sweet and add some classic stuff too but ram jam wow black Betty bamboo is a classic
70s and older music is no more real than todays music. Maybe you should explore more modern music, you might like some of it. Or maybe go back farther and listen to some lead belly, Robert Johnson or something of the sort. Actually, lead belly is the original artist of black Betty. You cant gatekeep ‘real music’.
These young whippersnappers don't know music lol. I was listening to this in the 80's also. So much great music came out of an era I wasn't even thought of in!
@@Eskay1206 not born in that era either (80's baby), but the Stones are by far my favorite. Sympathy For The Devil was an amazing song! CCR, Ram Jam, Blue Oyster Cult, so much great music from the 60's and 70's!
Always loved this song. My mom was the R&B, pop, and gospel listener- my dad was all rock n roll. I remember dancing along while my dad played his drums while listening to the rock stations back in the 70's and this one would just send me. My dad was an awesome drummer back then. I miss those days.
Don't care who you are or where this damn song did bring or all kind together with a smile , like to jam . Old school brought us all together , how freakin cool is that .
What amazes me is these kids go so long without ever hearing these 70/80 .. man y’all missing out on the best music of all time … us old timers gotta share more
The record label gave them about $500 dollars to make a music video for the song. They spent most of it on beer and MJ and just filmed in the back yard of one of the members house. Hahah
I remember when this song was new. It was actually a bunch of studio musicians that got together to jam. They were never actually a real band. I would have never imagined this song would be such a hit today.
I love how they are like, "what 2 . 30 min song??!??" Yep he needed filler on the album and this is what they came up with. And it became a number one hit.
Fun Fact: Ram Jam was only given $500 to shoot the video, so they spent $450 of it on weed and beer.
Sounds true 😂
Yup. Hence the reason they're in the yard. Lol.
Is this actually true, is there a source for it?
@@derherr8498 it's true. Verified by the band.
Damn right!
“Boi, they had the cookout lit!” Is the greatest line to a reaction I’ve ever heard.
Them some jammin ass white bois
This song is 46 years old and it will rock forever.
there aint no "time" limit amoungst infinity ...
The song is from 1939, Ram Jam's version is 46 years old :)
They stole this song and remade it
@@wikkiedjones2466
Which is true of a lot of songs and almost all movies now. 🤷♂
I@@wikkiedjones2466it's called a cover, dullard
I am 71 yrs old. I listened to this in College. Glad y outlaw guys catching up to hot tunes that are over 40 years old.
How about it. We lived through some of the best music in all of time. From ALL genera's of music. Look how many songs from our era are still on the radio going strong after fifty years and more.
Try almost 50 years old. But look at the black reaction. I reckon someone who was paying for thesae guys was racist because the band in general didn't go anywhere. What a shame.
I am only 51 but music like this goes out my speakers in the summers
I am 71 also, but i was listening to it while working on a construction crew. So much great music from that era. It never dies.
"Black Betty" was a cadence sung by black confederate soldiers during the civil war. Black Betty was a rifle made in Birmingham, Alabama. The company that made the gun made an "improved model", hence "Black Betty had a child". They hated the new rifle because it didn't shoot straight. Hence, "damned thing gone wild". Ram Jam put music to the 160-year-old cadence.
I think leadbelly did at an earlier point
Thanks for the info
Bam Balam was the noise the rifle made being a flintlock with the pan going off first to get the main charge lit...
BAM- BALAM ...LOL
Wow! Thank you, you walking encyclopedia you!! Love facts!!! ❤❤
Tho, there where only 2 regiments(in name, not number) of black confederates, both where forcibly dissolved by the confederate federal government. 1 was made of primarily half white/half black soilders, who where apart of the aristocracy to a degree.
I will never get tired of watching peoples' faces go from confusion to absolute delight!!!
Yes!!! I keep watching it just to see their faces. Love it!!!
Yes! And this is the short version.
As good as them realising the Bee Gees are white 😂😅
It's the best reaction to ask to see, from "what is this..." to " whatever it is, I need more of it"
the song is quite simply, fun
"We are shooting it a granny's today, she made apple pie" 🍎 🤣
Funniest part about that, their manager actually asked them how much money they needed to make the video. The band requested and was given $200, their manager assumed this was for production costs. It was not, it was for $200 worth of weed to get them "in the zone" the video was recorded in a friend's front yard for free.
I about cried laughing so hard at this!!🤣😂🤣😂
@@barneymiller7894 the shocking thing is that you used to be able to get a fair amount of weed for 2 bills
@@jaewok5G Right ☹️
Ran so fast to these comment I past Usain Bolt twice
In you’re left 🏃♂️💨
@Steven Essex 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤭 dayum!!
🤣😂🤣
Hahaha
I remember. As I was passing you. Lol.
To all the haters...I've never met a black person that didn't love this song
To haters ive never seen anyone hate this song. Its short awesome break downs catchy lyrics if they watched the video they know that band was hammered.
Because it’s an old black work/field song
@@iamhereblossom1588no it wasn't, you looney tune
Everybody loves this song... all humans... even lawyers
I listen to that song whenever I need a jolt. I was a trucker, long distance. If you got sleepy at 3am... black Betty is my sweetheart. 😊
OTR ain't for the weak. Rock on brother!
I'm so happy to see people listening to the good stuff from the 70s. Lots of talent in those days.
No autotune and only 8 recording tracks to play with. No fixing it in post. Make a mistake and you have to start over from the beginning.
I like the Heart version
You mean the 1930s? That's the original. ;)
@@jaydisqus3353 It's derived from a British matching song from at least the 1800's.
@@nucleargrizzly1776 I just remember seeing the prison gang song.
I can't take credit for these, but the best comments I've ever seen in regards to this song
1) If Mt. Dew was a person that is what he would look like
2) They had $500 to shoot the video and spent $450 on weed.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤣🤣🤣💙🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️
I love when people say they look like math/comp sci teachers 😂
Mine was "and Aunt Judy is still salty over the damage to her flower beds."
No one spent $450 on weeds..$20 would cover the whole night - tickets, gas, weeds and feed you.
@@queserasera1540 I'm from that time, you my dear are correct.
I worked at a state prison on 3rd shift back in the '90s, our warden was a black lady named, you guessed it, Betty. One night I was on foot patrol and suddenly this song began to ring out over the entire network of radios, AWA state police and other nearby institutions. It was glorious. As you might expect Betty was not amused and everyone who was carrying a radio that night was under close scrutiny. I don't recall ever hearing who did it.
Someone pulled a Shawshank
That is absolutely amazing.
Story straight out of a Steven King Movie... Awesome👌👍👍👍
That's Gold! 😆
😂🤣🤣
I’m almost 70, and this song came out just after I graduated high school! LOVE to see so many young people in shock that such a great jam has been around for almost 50 years! We’ll….sit down, it been around for over 90 years!!! It was first recorded in 1933 by James “Iron Head” Baker!
Now I understand why I heard the song was about a gun in civil war times. I'm not even sure if that's totally accurate, but it now makes more sense. But still, it's definitely also about a girl.
This is what music is supposed to do. It brings us all together.
Too late now
@@Itsallthesameshht..Never too late!
Back in day we joked about it.
It is right now
"I might go file for child support and I ain't even got no kids" had me on the whole floor
My favorite comment. The whole thing was glorious
Couldn't stop laughing at that comment. xD
That one got me.
Same…F’ing hilarious!
🤣🤣🤣🤣YESSSSS🤣🤣🤣
I refuse to accept that these people got this far in life without hearing this song!
Gotta figure many of these folks are younger and probably grew up on other types of music
Unfortunately even though music is so available now on streaming still have to know what you're looking for
This would have been on classic rock 🎸 stations for me
Love seeing new generations and people discovering awesome music
It's ridiculous but sadly probably true.
Its a southern cultural staple lol this song is legendary
Ikr
You must remember the genre they are accustomed to is very limited and few within the dedicated hoards will seek out alternative real music. So yes I can see it.
0:53 - "no budget for the music video, we're shooting at granny's today" 🤣🤣🤣
When you watch the original video this is so spot on and hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣
The best comment on this music video, ever!
She made apple pie ❤
Fun fact, their manager actually asked them how much money they needed for the music video. They responded 200 dollars, their manager assumed this was for production costs. It was not, it was for weed to get them "in the zone"
The record company gave them a generous sum o make a video. They filmed it ay home and spent the rest on drugs.
True story.
Also, high as kites
BACK in the 70s at the rollerskateorama rink, this joint would come on and the whole place would get lit. There's no decade like the 70s, the whole vibe changed by 82'
True, I was a child in 70's, teen in 80's, so I absorbed both. I actually was not pumped when it started changing so much in the 80's.
BEST DECADE EVER! Gravesend Bklyn! Great Food! Yamaha Mini Bikes! Gorgeous Babes! & Rock & Roll! Fondest of memories! Sadly 😢 Missed..NEVER Forgotten 😊
Songs like this were the reason so many kids played air guitar in the 1970s. We had some great guitarists back in the day.
You got mad editing skills bro. Respect
Great job !!!
Fire. Watching from England
You do good work too man. Good to see you about the Internet
Yeah, seriously. Over 9000.
Agreed.
Y'all have this 53 year old white gal running down memory lane, jamming out and couch dancing with Y'all! So good to see the younger generation enjoying Black Betty! One of my favorite song's! Be Blessed 🙌 You made my day! I haven't laughed and had so much joy in my soul since before the covid lock down .. I needed this my soul needed this! Big Love ❤️
Its so cool that people who are completely different ages can all enjoy the same things, I'm 16 and I love dancing to this song and trying to learn the drums to it
@@mr.mcnuggies Awesome 🙌
My wife called from the other room "Im sending you a link, you gotta see this!"
This was the jam back in 77. It was fast paced, great riffs..47 years ago. I was a junior in High School 🤣👊🏽✌🏽
Same here, brother!
1979
I am an old man now. But 50 years ago there was a restaurant called Mariposa. On the main drag of along Post city spent many a night on all night bender sitting there running the needle through the record. Watching all the other crazy ranged to walk by. I guess you had to be there and if you were there you heard this song all night long. It was on that jukebox from the 1976 tour clean through the 1991 tour.
It's so funny to see all these people hearing this song for the very first time, while I remember listening to it 50 years or so in the past.
I heard this song thirty years ago for the first time. It came on the radio while I was riding with my dad in his truck and he cranked the volume and sang it flawlessly like he wrote the dam thing! I’ll never forget hearing it for the first time, what an awesome song! Thanks it brought back memories!
thats an awesome memory 👍
Back in the 70s, I was a kid and had this on 45. I used to play the Hell out of this song.
Thank your Dadn
amazing!
The reactor who said "ima go file for child support and i ain't even got no kids" dyyyyyinnnnnng!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE seeing the young ones discover the music we lived our lives to. This is my all time fave genre of rock, of music and to see new generations loving it, too, is AWESOME!
Hell yes
It's not long enough. There can be no other criticism of this absolute piece of art. Legendary.
That song is so crazy. It shouldn't be as good as it is. That middle part is so funky and it all stays together. Killer.
That is called composition.
There's a killer instrumental in the actual song that's left out of a lot of these videos
This is what respect for cultures looks like. Celebrating each other without pandering.
The song is a classic and is about loving no matter of race...
The reviewers on this video didn't judge the band for their looks, they praised them for their art.
Simple, appreciate people for what they contribute, regardless of what they look like.
Black Betty was a rifle.
What... What do you think the song is about, bud? o_O
@@kdrapertrucker Correction. It was a musket (no rifling).
Well it is a blues song from 1920s first recorded by LeadBelly aka Huddie Leadbetter. And it was likely a song from the 1800s.
Sorry to tell you this song is not about a black women its about shooting heroin they used to call heroin black betty
This is an old work song. It was first recorded at a prison work farm in the 30s I think, then made commercial by Lead Belly king of the 12 sting (Nirvana famously covers “in the pines” by him as well). It has a rich history people should look into. Ram Jam made it rock though!
ty for the wealth of knowledge
A lot of great southern rock bands big hits were all just old blues songs sped up. It is a winning combination. The old blues legends inspired so many greats, and the greatest of all, Hendrix.
Leadbelly is wonderful, but this song is way older, it started with an English folk song about the Brown Bess, a notoriously inaccurate, and slow to load, but easy to use Musket, which was copied in America as the Black Betty. From the very beginning the song had multiple meanings ie: about the musket itself, about getting drunk/high, about sexual exploits etc. But you have to remember that even though people may have been born hundreds of years before you, it doesn't necessarily mean they were less clever than you.
@@ligottispandemoniumcarniva7014 I just listened to it and I don’t hear the connection. If you have a version we should hear please post it! And I recognize it’s older than leadbelly- his recording just made it popular. I just know that it was a song that came out of the fields in the days when slavery was still legal. I was also under the impression that black Betty was commonly referred to a bottle of whiskey, which I do believe was originally Scottish, and then in early American folk lore it became a reference to the whip. Let me know what you think.
It's about a gun.
I loved this song 45 years ago, and still do.
Once again, music, proving that we have more in common than we have differences
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Sho' nuff!!! ❤
Every one of their reactions make me smile. But I love island girlz giggles.
This is an old Leadbelly tune. You’d be surprised how many songs came from that man’s creativity. Such a classic.
It's from the revolutionary war. I don't think leadbelly was around then
@@shinobi1kenobi75 oh interesting, I didn’t know that.
@@ericmojave6061 : Black Betty was a rifle that was well loved. It's "child" the brown Bess was despised. Bam a lam is the firing of the gun. Some things have been changed in the song to make it sound more like it's about a person.
@@shinobi1kenobi75 Alabama wasn’t a state until the civil war? Maybe the civil war instead of revolutionary? Either way I thought lead belly wrote this. Still think he’s the first to record it. I have to read more about this.
@@pelop100 Way down in Alabam was added later, but "She" was manufactured in Birmingham England for the colonials.
My eyes = reading comments
My ears = listening song
My hands = scroll down
My mouth = singing song
I am very busy person 😅😂
Exactly what I am doing right now.
Bambalam😂😂😂
I sent this to my momma, we've both loved this song since I was a baby. I love watching others get into that dirty southern 70s rock.
The editing on this video was awesome, great job.
I've only got ONE complaint about this song... Its far far too short. It needs to go on a loop so we can all get more of it
The sad thing, the most viewed version of this song isn't the whole song. Which is what most people react to, which is sad, because the full version is like double the length. And it takes the crazy up to 11 with that extra run time.
We need an 8 hour version of this ASAP !!!!
I really love how music transcends any of the racist bullshit. If it jams it doesn't matter what your melanin count is.
Facts brother
Yes sir!!!! 🙌🙌
black betty was what they called joints in many places in the south. that is what the song is about. weed. imo at least. but it is based off an old song slaves sang while working and they also called the tassels at the end of whips black betties
@@villaincorp7728 it’s actually about a guitar, google it 🙄
@@leighirvine black Betty was actually slang for a certain type of musket
This version was so short because it had to fit on a 45 rpm record, which was how music was sold and played on the radio back around 1970. If you bought the album (LP) there was a longer version of this song on it that really jammed ! All too often bands had to put out shortened versions of their songs until FM stations came along and the radio format changed.
Hey Jude by the Beatles came out on a 45 (also called a 7 single) and it was 8 minutes long.
I heard the the radio stations prefered the shorter songs so they could fit in more advertisements
Until Bohemian Rhapsody hit the airwaves.
Imagine their confusion working an record player, with the 45 click button and speeds, there were three.
@@fbksfrank4 no kidding ! not to mention the 45 adapter ring when you want to switch between albums and 45s !
@@TedBronson1918 barely remember those, I remember that the circle for it was pop up. What was that other speed for?
My son is 14 but when he was 3 this was his favorite song he would ask us to play it in the car daddy play bam a lam, play bam a lam...great song
I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with my dad as a kid and got a CD of some of the greatest rock songs ever. Once this one came on, I had it on loop for I don’t know how long lmao
These reactions are priceless!!!! Music can unite!!! God bless the viewers for keeping such a great open mind. Everyone here was wonderful!!
"F*** the music video budget we're shooting at granny's today she made apple pie." That is the best way I have ever heard someone sum up this music video
The best part is that they played the shorter version without the even crazier solo and still loved it
What a legendary pocket they created...quite a jam.
Every reactor needs to listen to the studio version of this song. You lose about a full minute of pure instrumental madness when you watch the video version. Song length is 3:58
Now THAT was a JAM!
@FelixMontoya58 the full length song definitely puts the Jam in Ram Jam!
The way the smiles just light up!!! Never fails! What a joy-- and the world needs more joy!
If you don’t have this reaction to this song you probably don’t have ears! 😂love it ❤️
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I'm just saying....
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Love seeing these folks react to this song for the first time. I’m old. I remember hearing this not long after it came out. I was, oddly, not much into listening to music at the time (I very much am now). I say, “oddly”, because I came from a somewhat musical family and I played music, even in semi-professional situations, even as a kid. So, it is weird that it took me a while to get exposed to a lot of music. But I *did* hear this one shortly after it was released and I absolutely loved it. It grooves. This was one of my favorite songs for at least two years solid. Thankfully, I didn’t wear out the vinyl and, in fact, all these decades later, I’ve still got the record. Phenomenal song.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching y’all comments!! I’m just love seeing people enjoying music of my era! Thank you so much!! You’ve helped lighten my depression! ❤
Omg! I had so much fun with this compilation. This has been a fave song of mine since Jr High.
I can't believe people haven't heard this - a classic! Great song!
The UA-cam algorythm strikes again :) Fun compilation clip. And I'm very glad as a 40-something year old that my mom introduced me to her music from the moment I was able to listen to a song. Stuff like this, old soul, motown, rock 'n' roll, blues. The 60's, 70's, even the early 80's has so much to offer.
Another Excellent Edit that made me love a song, that i have loved for almost 40 years, all over again!
Your editing skills are NEXT LEVEL.
The amount of time and effort you put into each video is truly impressive. Job well done, sir.
Love, love, LOVE this tune! Never met a person who didn't love this amazing song about a gun. ❤😂🎉
Right, Derek, your editing skills are supreme. Thank you.
That video was excellent. I've watched it three times since last night. I love seeing people experiencing pure joy. It's just the most beautiful thing ❤️😍🤗
The song is a total jam, but the reactions were priceless! I had to watch twice to really appreciate it all.
I didn't like this song, when it came out, when I was a kid. I think it was one of those songs that was more complicated and DIFFERENT than my young brain could process....I had to grow into it.
The rhythm is rather primal, or tribal....really makes a person move.
I don't know how much work each of these compilations takes you, but keep doing them forever. This is the best way to get a nice spectrum of reactions all at the same time. Feels like getting to hear it with a whole group of people appreciating it for the first time.
Yes! I love, love, love these compilations!
Nice to see folks breaking out of their little corner of the music world and getting a taste of something different. There is SO much out there waiting to be heard.
I love these new complittions. Im 60 i grew up with this love that you guys are getting into the greatest music of all times the music from the last 70 years ;- ) my pops would argue that. 😊
When a black lady rocked a white man in the 70's, she got a song like Black Betty and Brown Sugar written about her. Beautiful ladies ❣️
It's funny to see people react to songs, I've listened to my whole life.
I used to play this for my Black brothers before games!! ALL OF US HAD TO DANCE!!!!! COULDNT STOP OURSELVES!!! Love your reactions!!!! TOO GOOD!!! Needs to be mixed longer!!!
Great to see people of all sorts appreciate this great music. Sometimes people don't know what they're missing until they give it a chance.
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I’ll say! I was really jamming to it lol
Old school never gets old!
This is the music that fills my soul and makes my body happy! Chair dancing my heart out!
Glad too see younger generation enjoying music that my generation lessened to😊
I am so happy that ram jam is fine again . I ran discos in the late seventies from my high school and that black Betty was always my opened song I was known for that for years I'm 58 down and that brings back memories and it makes me laugh I'm so happy the world gets really acquainted with them there's lots of great bands from the seventies look up sweet and add some classic stuff too but ram jam wow black Betty bamboo is a classic
Gets the blood pumping! Us oldies love it when you youngsters get to hear real music!
Well said!
@@christineremmer5514 62 and still love it .
Damn straight lol
There is a newer version that kicks azz even more.
70s and older music is no more real than todays music. Maybe you should explore more modern music, you might like some of it. Or maybe go back farther and listen to some lead belly, Robert Johnson or something of the sort. Actually, lead belly is the original artist of black Betty.
You cant gatekeep ‘real music’.
Im 66 and love watching the reactions. It’s a lot longer on the album. They had to cut it for radio back then.
One of the best low budget back yard production ever made, they did it what they got at the time, it is the best ever...😂
How is it that so many people don’t know this song?! I grew up listing to this in the 80s.
These young whippersnappers don't know music lol. I was listening to this in the 80's also. So much great music came out of an era I wasn't even thought of in!
Damn the 70s had so many hits. I wasn't even alive then but there are more bangers out of that decade than any other in my music experience.
Yep I was 13 when this came out, went straight down to the record store and bought it, played it non stop. have you tried Alice Coopers "Schools Out"
@@Eskay1206 not born in that era either (80's baby), but the Stones are by far my favorite. Sympathy For The Devil was an amazing song! CCR, Ram Jam, Blue Oyster Cult, so much great music from the 60's and 70's!
Always loved this song. My mom was the R&B, pop, and gospel listener- my dad was all rock n roll. I remember dancing along while my dad played his drums while listening to the rock stations back in the 70's and this one would just send me. My dad was an awesome drummer back then. I miss those days.
Don't care who you are or where this damn song did bring or all kind together with a smile , like to jam . Old school brought us all together , how freakin cool is that .
I don't know what I love more, the song or watching you young folks jam to it!!!!!!
So very much enjoyed the reactions, still gets me moving every time I hear it. Glad you all enjoyed it!!
Dude these compilations are killerrrr
Love how everyone just started moving!
This is why I listen to old music because this is timeless
Glad to see all you having fun with the song 😁
What amazes me is these kids go so long without ever hearing these 70/80 .. man y’all missing out on the best music of all time … us old timers gotta share more
There is a good reason so many people like this song. It's just a really good song that will last forever.
0:07 she sounds so cool!! The best accent ever!! Love it!!
I've heard many reactions this music, but you guys top them all. What honesty. Subscribed mammy freakas
When these short songs came on, I’d just play them twice, just to hear them longer!
This is the shortened version. The long version has a longer instrumental part that is pretty damn good and worth a listen if you get the chance.
I did not know this. I will look this up. I remember when this came out.
So good to see these reactions! This song always gets me moving!
Brilliant compilation of reactions to a work of genius! Best 2 minutes 20 of fun music mayhem you can have..., bam a lam!
Love this. This was my dads ringtone for YEARS when he got his cell phone, memories!
This song is an absolute banger for every single second. If this doesn't make you rock out then I can't relate to you as a person.
The record label gave them about $500 dollars to make a music video for the song. They spent most of it on beer and MJ and just filmed in the back yard of one of the members house. Hahah
Your compilations are incredible!
I remember when this song was new. It was actually a bunch of studio musicians that got together to jam. They were never actually a real band. I would have never imagined this song would be such a hit today.
They had the cook out lit!!
This is a song that ALWAYS makes me play it not twice but THREE times, it’s THAT GOOD 👏🏻🥰‼️
I love how they are like, "what 2 . 30 min song??!??" Yep he needed filler on the album and this is what they came up with. And it became a number one hit.