Ram Jam "Black Betty" Best of Reactions Compilation
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- Compilation of Reactions to Black Betty by Ram Jam
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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!
"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
“Boi, they had the cookout lit!” Is the greatest line to a reaction I’ve ever heard.
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. 🤷♂
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
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 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!
This is what music is supposed to do. It brings us all together.
Too late now
@@CHRISANDREOU4199..Never too late!
Back in day we joked about it.
It is right now
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 😊
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
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.
"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’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 was the jam back in 77. It was fast paced, great riffs..47 years ago. I was a junior in High School 🤣👊🏽✌🏽
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.
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
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.
Songs like this were the reason so many kids played air guitar in the 1970s. We had some great guitarists back in the day.
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 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!!!!!!!!!
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😂😂😂
Old school never gets old!
I loved this song 45 years ago, and still do.
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 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
Once again, music, proving that we have more in common than we have differences
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Sho' nuff!!! ❤
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 best part is that they played the shorter version without the even crazier solo and still loved it
0:07 she sounds so cool!! The best accent ever!! Love it!!
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 ❣️
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
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.
If you don’t have this reaction to this song you probably don’t have ears! 😂love it ❤️
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I'm just saying....
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! ❤
Glad too see younger generation enjoying music that my generation lessened to😊
Love how everyone just started moving!
I can't believe people haven't heard this - a classic! Great song!
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!
The way the smiles just light up!!! Never fails! What a joy-- and the world needs more joy!
"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
These reactions are priceless!!!! Music can unite!!! God bless the viewers for keeping such a great open mind. Everyone here was wonderful!!
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.
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.
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.
👍 ✔️
I’ll say! I was really jamming to it lol
Brilliant compilation of reactions to a work of genius! Best 2 minutes 20 of fun music mayhem you can have..., bam a lam!
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!!!
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 ❤️😍🤗
Love Love Love this song 💓 When I bought my black Acura, I named her Black Betty!!! Great Reactions 😂
The RUclips 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.
This is what it means when music transcends across every culture and everybody is just getting their dance 🕺 💃 on!! I just love everyone's reactions and vibe in this video! Good times indeed 👍🏻🕺💃🕺💃
This is the music that fills my soul and makes my body happy! Chair dancing my heart out!
This really made me smile and tbh a bit teary 😢(in a good way) Nowadays everything seems to be about dividing us and putting us into categories. It's so cool to see so many different people...black, white and in between enjoying banging music. Makes me feel all warm inside. Brilliant stuff! 💙💙💙🏴🏴🏴🏴
Omg! I had so much fun with this compilation. This has been a fave song of mine since Jr High.
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. 😊
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.
Another Excellent Edit that made me love a song, that i have loved for almost 40 years, all over again!
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
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.
This is why I listen to old music because this is timeless
Love this. This was my dads ringtone for YEARS when he got his cell phone, memories!
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.
Thanks for the great editing! Been waiting for someone to do more like this - there was an editor called music reactathon who synched up all the reactors in real time as the song played but they only made a few. Just seen this and your Rush Tom Sawyer one (also brilliant). I've seen most of the original reactions individually, great to see them all put together like this. Have subbed to your channelm keep up the good work!
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.
I LOVE the song and the video! And now I love THEIR REACTIONS!! Go, BETTY!! 😂
More of theeeeese...
Love this compilation so much! People have often jokingly commented that this video was made for the sum price of Memaw's backyard, and $20 in weed. I mean, they're not wrong! Such a kick-ass song tho!
This is a song that ALWAYS makes me play it not twice but THREE times, it’s THAT GOOD 👏🏻🥰‼️
70 years old. This is my favorite song of all time. This video was outstanding. Thanks to all the folks who for their reactions... You made my day. But damm this song sh*ts and gits...
2:24 to seal their legendary status over 40 plus years later. Props need to go to Leadbelly, the originator of this song. He wrote it and played it 1st.
My neighbor found a stray dog on side of road. When he got in his car Black Betty was playing. The dog was kept and named Black Betty
So good to see these reactions! This song always gets me moving!
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.
Leave the audience wanting more. Ram Jam sure left everybody wanting more. Bravo.
Great video, so well assembled, really well done!
So cool to see people react so enthusiastically to something so long ago in time and from such a different time in itself!
My parents always insisted that the 60s and 70s were the only years that actually counted so they always had loads of music from then... This was lumped onto a compilation of 1 hit wonders cos there was no other way to sell it along with 99 red balloons and such!
I've known this song for nearly my whole life, 40 years and I've always loved it!
So glad people of another whole new generation get to enjoy it again and it's just as good as when I first heard it!
Awesome job!
Bro, please keep doing what you're doing. I'm going through a rough time in my life and music is one of my rocks that is keeping me grounded and these videos bring me so much joy. I've started to love reaction videos of people hearing for the first time music I grew up with and your compilations and editing are perfect for me. Keep it up man, you're doing great things.
Hang in there you aren't alone, I get it, been having a real rough time since 2019 personally, I pray things get better for the both of us
Sending you endless love and support. I hope things are getting better for you and all those struggling.
You all are remarkable.
Loved every reaction.🤗
Especially, "I'm gonna file for child support and I don't even have a kid".🤣
When these short songs came on, I’d just play them twice, just to hear them longer!
One of the best songs of all time, it's good it reaches different audiences - it's wild especially the first time you hear it
We need more of these stat.
Only thing wrong with this tune is its too damn short....!!!! We need a 10 hour version of this ASAP !!!!!
BBQ was ready
Fun fact. The producer at the time asked what figure the guys need to shoot the video. They asked for 200 bucks. The producer believed this was for production costs. Turns out the 200 bucks was for weed to get them "in the zone" and the video was shot in the drummers garden.
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’.
Dude these compilations are killerrrr
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 love hearing all of these positive comments.
It shows that We should all listen to Different kinds of music.
One more thing these guys did this in the backyard😅
Even back in the 1970’s when we used to dance to this track at the local disco as teenager’s even then we thought this tune was just too darned short . . . imagine if this could be made into a 12” single.
This is a really old song dating back at least a couple of hundred years. It was a marching song for British soldiers. “Black Betty” was their musket but soon replaced by the superior “Brown Bess” that was used to conquer a quarter of the world. “Bam a Lam” was obviously the noise when you fired it. It has zero to do with race.
That's a myth people keep repeating on all these videos. It was an African American work song. Black Betty has been used to refer to a bottle of booze, a whip, a prison wagon, all sorts of things, but there isn't any documented reference to a musket. What Black Betty originally refers to has been lost in time. A Brown Bess was a generic term for a muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock, not a specific musket by a certain manufacturer just like the term, shotgun is generic. So saying a Black Betty was replaced by a Brown Bess is like saying the Black Betty was replaced by flint lock musket. Flint locks have been in use since around 1660 and this song isn't that old. But you are right about it having nothing to do with race.
Roy...naw, he talkin' about gettin' down with black betty and oops he ain't payin' no child support. She a wild thang.
@@jdmorris7380 I'd like to clone you about a million times.
Lmao......he's singing about liquor not a musket.
Your compilations are incredible!
Im 66 and love watching the reactions. It’s a lot longer on the album. They had to cut it for radio back then.
My all time favorite song ever! These reactions were the absolute best!
Same!
Hit it out of the park again Derek Brooks. Keep em coming!
I love watching this generation find and appreciate good music
This was what I grew up listening to and that was back in the 70’s
There are actually 3 versions of this. This is the single edit. The album edit has a great Alman Bros type vibe solo in the middle. The original is a track by a band called Starstruck recorded in 1975. The guy singing and playing guitar is called Bill Bartlett and he is the only guy in the video who actually played on the recording.
Dude, these compilations are 🔥 I need more!
Brother keep up the music videos they are fire...much respect to the hard work and how creative you are putting these together!
Just really Tight southern fried ROCK n ROLL. Great reactions from all Y'all.
This was pure fun.