Yessss, she had created a couple bands due to her voice range, she was going to sign a contract to play Vegas, but she had been having headaches so she went to the Dr the next day before signing the contract. Seerms she had cancer in her brain and lungs, so she returned back home to Toledo Ohio to finish her life, she died at 45.
In 1971 a co-worker went to see a Black Sabbath concert in Wichita, Ks. The opening act was Black Oak Arkansas. After the concert he came back and visited me at work and all he could talk about was...Black Oak Arkansas!
I've had their music on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, cd and of course digital. Really great band that almost no one has heard of(except of us old timers). Jim Dandy was the best front man of all time. Thanks for reviewing and sharing to a new generation.
I was 21 when I first heard about this group, in 1971. Took them around the world with me. This tune we played most every day. We weren't sure we be alive the next minute, or day.
They had 4 guitarist actually. Listen to "UP" for their best jam. Drummer was Wayne Evans, but he left the band after the first album to be replaced by the superior Tommy Aldridge.
There was a BOA prior to the "spandex" era. Jim dressed in a buckskin outfit and conveyed a backwoods guru type of vibe. During his show he'd pull an imaginary rope from the ceiling. Even in the early days they were an incredible live band.
This band was my favorite band of the era! Check out the albums they had during the 70's! Hot Rod off the Raunch N Roll Album is great! Also Gigolo, Hot and Nasty! Happy Hooker is a fun song! Uncle Elijah off the 1st Album is also very good! Wild Men from the Mountain is another! So many great tunes. The song Up, which is the last song on the Raunch N Roll Album, has the best Drum Solo by Tommy Aldridge you will ever hear! The best live band ever from the 70's! He was one of the first to ever usee a double bass! This an important band, a pioneer in Southern Rock! Please play the entire Raunch N Roll Album for yourself, also their First Album and the Keep the Faith Album!
I'm an Oakie and I have a hard back book Rolling Stone Mag put out in 1978 that gives a description of every band. They called BOA ''gut bucket'' music without a real guitar player. ''The ''pits of rock and roll'' it states. I kept buying BOA records but never bought another Rolling Stone Mag.
If you enjoyed this tune then listen to another of their songs from this album titled "Uncle Elijah". BTW, they are from a tiny farming community in North East Arkansas by the name of Black Oak. This is from 1971 or 1972.
They were a heavy touring act in the 70's and a really good Raunch and Roll band. Their live album named that is great and Jim Dandy influenced many rock front men with his shirtless, white spandex pants raunchy persona.
From Wikipedia 8-P Black Oak is a town in Craighead County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 262 at the 2010 census. Notable people Black Oak is the hometown of the founding members of the 1970s Southern rock band Black Oak Arkansas. John Grisham attended first grade at Black Oak Elementary School for one semester, and his novel A Painted House is set in Black Oak and the surrounding area.
Wow I have thought about this band in forever... I was raised in Memphis and my older sister use to hang out with this band. My sister was a wildchild. One of the many times I ran away from home I ending up at her place, I think I was 15 at the time and my older sister had moved out on her own when she was about 15, so I guess she was 17 at the time. But I remember us talking about me getting out in the world and she gave me a couple of shirts, I didn't have much and one shirt was a denim shirt with embroidery on the lapels of the shirt... yes the shirt has a story too, but that's another day. She also gave be a couple of bucks and then promptly too me out of Memphis on I-40 and dumped on the highway for my hitch-hiking adventure. I can't remember what happened after Jackson, TN., which I think is about 60 miles east of Memphis. But anyway you made me remember something that I have not thought about in a very, very long time. The band was on the scene in the 70's.
@@jamessharp2626 She "dumped" me in the spirit of adventure... crazy times. The first time I ran away from home was when I was in 3rd grade, with Linda, my older sister. We had a plan. There was a horse stable near our house and we planned to rent horses for an hour and then just keep riding them to the Mississippi River, which was about 20 miles away. (we were going to camp on the banks of the Mississippi that night. Of which I read later in life of early pioneers committing suicide from the mosquitos along the Mississippi.) About 2 hours into our plan, a pickup truck full of dudes from the stables comes roaring up and I'll never forget hearing someone in the truck saying, "where the fuck are they going with our horses?. They pull over and retrieve their horses and leave a 3rd grader and 5th grader on the side of a 2 lane country road. We ended up walking about 15 or so miles that day. We got about 5 or 6 six miles from the Mississippi when we were finally captured. I will never forget the extremely racial stories the cop tried to scare us with as he drove us to our home where we were in for a beatin'. Ah life in the 'ol south.
I live in Memphis, too. I ran into Jim Dandy in Seesel's (on Union, it's a Kroger now) around 2001. Super nice guy, he was happy to chat for a second and give me an autograph.
Lived in Arkansas from ages of 1-7 and many of my cousins and relatives live there. I remember his big Black Oak Arkansas was then. STING ME was a huge local hit for them. My uncles were crazy about them.
BOA started as The Knowbody Else (formed in 1963) while the guys were still in high school. This is from their first album released in March 1971. Their latest album, Underdog Heroes, came out in May 2019 and it was great to hear from them again. Check out Post Toastee on the Wild Bunch album (Jim Dandy's Black Oak, Arkansas - 1999) and don't forget our amazing little sister, Ruby Starr! Check out her first album, Stone Junkie (when she was still Ruby Jones)...
I live in Arkansas and I'm best friends with one of the original five members, Ron Smith, otherwise known as Hawk. All five are given credit and residuals for writing all original songs. The drummer, Tommy Aldridge, was not one of the original five.
One of the best showbands of the 70's. Remember seeing them in North Carolina back in my wild days. Very entertaining and very under rated. They literally dodged bullets in some the areas in Arkansas where they came from by being who they were. Wild long hairs in deep red America.
Where are they from? They’re from Black Oak, Arkansas. Which is about 20-30 miles due west of Blytheville, AR in Northeastern Arkansas. Black Oak is also the birthplace of the author John Grisham. This isn’t some obscure rock band either. Back in the 70’s these guys consistently sold out stadiums. They were right up there with Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers Band in terms of popularity and influence in the Country Rock genre. Their lead singer Jim Mangrum (AKA Jim Dandy) was considered one of Rocks best frontman in Rock too. When I saw them in the late 70’s when performing this song Jim Dandy had a bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand and a huge joint in the other. The crowd went nuts. 😂
The band was a high school band under various names, then decided to name themselves from their hometown, Black Oak Arkansas, they formed in 63 I believe, and I saw them in New Orleans in 1973 or 4, they were the cover band for Alice Cooper. (they were better than Alice) Ruby Starr wooed the band by wearing no panties in her short skirt, lol She passed away at 45 from cancer. She had a very talented voice.
During the early 70’s they were one of the best live performance bands. They put on quite a show, touring constantly. I loved them and still do but it’s clearly “Raunch and Roll”….no subtle nuances with Jim Dandy Mangrum and the boys.
April 23, 1974 Green Bay, WI Montose with Sammy Hagar, REO Speedwagon, and the incredible headliners Black Oak Arkansas for $4.50 LOL Three great guitars. Lead singer Jim Dandy Mangrum is famous for his song introductions, notably "Hotrod" (which ain't about no car) Popular from about 1972-77. They were unpopular in the Arkansas Bible Belt and out of spite named the band and first album after the town near where they grew up and so there was no confusion the album cover is a map of Arkansas with Black Oak circled. Check out their live album, Raunch and Roll.
Saw these guys a couple of times. Saw them with Pat Travers and Blackfoot and then again with the Outlaws and Molly Hatchett. If you ever see any live clips you'll notice that David Lee Roth stole Jim Dandys whole persona. Blatant thievery not seen except Lady Gaga stealing Dale Bozzio's whole thing. These guys could rock it with the best of them! Cool choice from their sizable catalog.
Always down for some Southern Rock! Loved the sermon and organ at the front. For some reason I recognize the band name but can’t think of another song I may know by them. May have to do some research.😂
i love the variety on this channel but would love more aussie content like john farnham and his re-working of the beatles hit help with the melbourne symphony orchestra, or katie noonan and her amazing version of sia's hit chandelier at the bridge
I've been contemplating suggesting Aussie band King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, which I know is a totally different genre from what you're suggesting, but it's all good.
Belly laughs or what. I so prefer comedy music like this to the likes of Weird Al. Sure I have an album of theirs somewhere...pause...High on the hog. Don't actually remember listening to it but if it's as funny as this, I'll give it a play sometime soon. Starts off gospel with some dumb dude trying to be all profound but just talking crap then goes into a sort of poor rock n roll/southern rock mix. All the time though, there's a hint that they're being serious which makes it fun. After hearing it, I have images of people with 8 fingers, no toes and a tail where their father is also their brother.
Haven't heard these guys in a long while. Had a couple of their albums back in the day, but there was better southern rock to listen to imo. As stated, lead singer Jim Dandy wore spandex and did a lot of leaping, splits and the like. If you've ever seen early Van Halen live videos, David Lee Roth stole some of those moves, admittedly so. Funny as well that Sifa mentioned Sabbath or actually Ozzy, Bark At the Moon. As the one from this band that had the most success was/is the drummer. Indeed, he was the drummer on the first Ozzy solo albums, then went to the band Whitesnake, of whom he still plays w/ to this day. Great hard rock drummer w/ chops galore. I would get a lot more mileage from a couple of other bands you mentioned; ie: Little Feat and Kansas...two tremendous bands w/ many a great album, especially in the 70's.
Jim Dandy to the rescue! Anyone remember Ruby Starr?
Yessss, she had created a couple bands due to her voice range, she was going to sign a contract to play Vegas, but she had been having headaches so she went to the Dr the next day before signing the contract. Seerms she had cancer in her brain and lungs, so she returned back home to Toledo Ohio to finish her life, she died at 45.
In 1971 a co-worker went to see a Black Sabbath concert in Wichita, Ks. The opening act was Black Oak Arkansas. After the concert he came back and visited me at work and all he could talk about was...Black Oak Arkansas!
I've had their music on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, cd and of course digital. Really great band that almost no one has heard of(except of us old timers). Jim Dandy was the best front man of all time. Thanks for reviewing and sharing to a new generation.
Wow!!! BOA!!!
Saw them in concert when I was a kid. AWESOME!!!
I was 21 when I first heard about this group, in 1971. Took them around the world with me. This tune we played most every day. We weren't sure we be alive the next minute, or day.
They had 4 guitarist actually. Listen to "UP" for their best jam.
Drummer was Wayne Evans, but he left the band after the first album to be replaced by the superior Tommy Aldridge.
There was a BOA prior to the "spandex" era. Jim dressed in a buckskin outfit and conveyed a backwoods guru type of vibe. During his show he'd pull an imaginary rope from the ceiling. Even in the early days they were an incredible live band.
😆wow
This band was my favorite band of the era! Check out the albums they had during the 70's! Hot Rod off the Raunch N Roll Album is great! Also Gigolo, Hot and Nasty! Happy Hooker is a fun song! Uncle Elijah off the 1st Album is also very good! Wild Men from the Mountain is another! So many great tunes. The song Up, which is the last song on the Raunch N Roll Album, has the best Drum Solo by Tommy Aldridge you will ever hear! The best live band ever from the 70's! He was one of the first to ever usee a double bass! This an important band, a pioneer in Southern Rock! Please play the entire Raunch N Roll Album for yourself, also their First Album and the Keep the Faith Album!
I'm an Oakie and I have a hard back book Rolling Stone Mag put out in 1978 that gives a description of every band. They called BOA ''gut bucket'' music without a real guitar player. ''The ''pits of rock and roll'' it states. I kept buying BOA records but never bought another Rolling Stone Mag.
You are right. They had 2 lead guitars, a rhythm guitar, a bass, drums, and Jim Dandy singing.
Thanks!
Nice shift in muse! Saw these guys live, opened for another great Southern Rock band of the time called Blackfoot. Great pick ya'll!
Glad you enjoyed Michael!
BOA was an opener for Blackfoot?? When was this? BOA was a headliner through most of the 70's.
I use to see BOA quite a bit I the early 70s. Always a high energy show
If you enjoyed this tune then listen to another of their songs from this album titled "Uncle Elijah".
BTW, they are from a tiny farming community in North East Arkansas by the name of Black Oak.
This is from 1971 or 1972.
Thanks for the info!
Jim "Dandy" Mangrum - lead vocals, washboard
Rickie "Ricochet" Reynolds - 12-string rhythm guitar, vocals
Pat "Dirty" Daugherty - bass guitar, vocals
Harvey "Burley" Jett - lead guitar, banjo, piano, vocals
Stanley "Goober" Knight - lead and steel guitar, organ, vocals
Wayne "Squeezebox" Evans - drums
Thanks!
Saw them in early 70's when I was teenager in little Rock they put on a good show
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Thanks so much for your service and your support Alan!
They're from Black Oak, Arkansas!
I live in Memphis and Black Oak is about an hour west of us.
This song is in Dazed and Confused.
Have mercy on my eardrums.
They were a heavy touring act in the 70's and a really good Raunch and Roll band. Their live album named that is great and Jim Dandy influenced many rock front men with his shirtless, white spandex pants raunchy persona.
Thanks for the info!
Awesome that you picked up 3 guitars..
From Wikipedia 8-P
Black Oak is a town in Craighead County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 262 at the 2010 census.
Notable people
Black Oak is the hometown of the founding members of the 1970s Southern rock band Black Oak Arkansas.
John Grisham attended first grade at Black Oak Elementary School for one semester, and his novel A Painted House is set in Black Oak and the surrounding area.
Saw them a couple times back in early 70 at The Warehouse in New Orleans! Raunch and roll crazy rocking band! 🥰✌
So did I, The Warehouse!
Wow I have thought about this band in forever... I was raised in Memphis and my older sister use to hang out with this band. My sister was a wildchild. One of the many times I ran away from home I ending up at her place, I think I was 15 at the time and my older sister had moved out on her own when she was about 15, so I guess she was 17 at the time. But I remember us talking about me getting out in the world and she gave me a couple of shirts, I didn't have much and one shirt was a denim shirt with embroidery on the lapels of the shirt... yes the shirt has a story too, but that's another day. She also gave be a couple of bucks and then promptly too me out of Memphis on I-40 and dumped on the highway for my hitch-hiking adventure. I can't remember what happened after Jackson, TN., which I think is about 60 miles east of Memphis. But anyway you made me remember something that I have not thought about in a very, very long time. The band was on the scene in the 70's.
I'm from Arkansas and my sister hung out with them (and the original "southern" Creed) too. She never dumped me on I-40, or Hwy 70, though.
@@jamessharp2626 She "dumped" me in the spirit of adventure... crazy times. The first time I ran away from home was when I was in 3rd grade, with Linda, my older sister. We had a plan. There was a horse stable near our house and we planned to rent horses for an hour and then just keep riding them to the Mississippi River, which was about 20 miles away. (we were going to camp on the banks of the Mississippi that night. Of which I read later in life of early pioneers committing suicide from the mosquitos along the Mississippi.) About 2 hours into our plan, a pickup truck full of dudes from the stables comes roaring up and I'll never forget hearing someone in the truck saying, "where the fuck are they going with our horses?. They pull over and retrieve their horses and leave a 3rd grader and 5th grader on the side of a 2 lane country road. We ended up walking about 15 or so miles that day. We got about 5 or 6 six miles from the Mississippi when we were finally captured. I will never forget the extremely racial stories the cop tried to scare us with as he drove us to our home where we were in for a beatin'. Ah life in the 'ol south.
Thanks for sharing Wayne!
I live in Memphis, too. I ran into Jim Dandy in Seesel's (on Union, it's a Kroger now) around 2001.
Super nice guy, he was happy to chat for a second and give me an autograph.
@@raymondvunk7123 very cool.
the original first southern rock band
Lived in Arkansas from ages of 1-7 and many of my cousins and relatives live there. I remember his big Black Oak Arkansas was then. STING ME was a huge local hit for them. My uncles were crazy about them.
BOA started as The Knowbody Else (formed in 1963) while the guys were still in high school. This is from their first album released in March 1971. Their latest album, Underdog Heroes, came out in May 2019 and it was great to hear from them again. Check out Post Toastee on the Wild Bunch album (Jim Dandy's Black Oak, Arkansas - 1999) and don't forget our amazing little sister, Ruby Starr! Check out her first album, Stone Junkie (when she was still Ruby Jones)...
Thanks for the info Charlie!
I live in Arkansas and I'm best friends with one of the original five members, Ron Smith, otherwise known as Hawk. All five are given credit and residuals for writing all original songs. The drummer, Tommy Aldridge, was not one of the original five.
The band stole their high school amps, cords, and mikes. Got caught by the police. How the band started. Yes 3 guitar players
Jim Dandy
To the damn rescue.
She hit it right on the nail same drummer
They were a little before my time. I was 8 or 9 when they were in their prime. I should dive in
One of the best showbands of the 70's. Remember seeing them in North Carolina back in my wild days. Very entertaining and very under rated. They literally dodged bullets in some the areas in Arkansas where they came from by being who they were. Wild long hairs in deep red America.
Bought this album when I was 16 in 1971 and it’s still here with me! Other good songs on this album…Jim Dandy, etc.
Just have a look at them live at de Don Kirschner show. Awesome perfromance.
The louder that I played it, the more Mom and Dad hated them.
Where are they from? They’re from Black Oak, Arkansas. Which is about 20-30 miles due west of Blytheville, AR in Northeastern Arkansas. Black Oak is also the birthplace of the author John Grisham.
This isn’t some obscure rock band either. Back in the 70’s these guys consistently sold out stadiums. They were right up there with Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers Band in terms of popularity and influence in the Country Rock genre.
Their lead singer Jim Mangrum (AKA Jim Dandy) was considered one of Rocks best frontman in Rock too.
When I saw them in the late 70’s when performing this song Jim Dandy had a bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand and a huge joint in the other. The crowd went nuts. 😂
The band was a high school band under various names, then decided to name themselves from their hometown, Black Oak Arkansas, they formed in 63 I believe, and I saw them in New Orleans in 1973 or 4, they were the cover band for Alice Cooper. (they were better than Alice) Ruby Starr wooed the band by wearing no panties in her short skirt, lol She passed away at 45 from cancer. She had a very talented voice.
During the early 70’s they were one of the best live performance bands. They put on quite a show, touring constantly. I loved them and still do but it’s clearly “Raunch and Roll”….no subtle nuances with Jim Dandy Mangrum and the boys.
April 23, 1974 Green Bay, WI Montose with Sammy Hagar, REO Speedwagon, and the incredible headliners Black Oak Arkansas for $4.50 LOL Three great guitars. Lead singer Jim Dandy Mangrum is famous for his song introductions, notably "Hotrod" (which ain't about no car) Popular from about 1972-77. They were unpopular in the Arkansas Bible Belt and out of spite named the band and first album after the town near where they grew up and so there was no confusion the album cover is a map of Arkansas with Black Oak circled. Check out their live album, Raunch and Roll.
I was at that concert in Green Bay also.
Saw these guys a couple of times. Saw them with Pat Travers and Blackfoot and then again with the Outlaws and Molly Hatchett. If you ever see any live clips you'll notice that David Lee Roth stole Jim Dandys whole persona. Blatant thievery not seen except Lady Gaga stealing Dale Bozzio's whole thing. These guys could rock it with the best of them! Cool choice from their sizable catalog.
Thanks for watching!
Apparently there was a band called Brooklyn. Didn't last long.
Hilarious
I always hear this paired with the following track 'When Electricity Came To Arkansas'. Oh well.
Always down for some Southern Rock! Loved the sermon and organ at the front. For some reason I recognize the band name but can’t think of another song I may know by them. May have to do some research.😂
Every song on this album was great
Always loved BOA! Jim Dandy to the )&%#$! *%^!_# rescue! :) Sure looked like they had a good time doin' it!
i love the variety on this channel but would love more aussie content like john farnham and his re-working of the beatles hit help with the melbourne symphony orchestra, or katie noonan and her amazing version of sia's hit chandelier at the bridge
I'll be requesting some Tim Minchin soon if that's any good? Love the guy.
I've been contemplating suggesting Aussie band King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, which I know is a totally different genre from what you're suggesting, but it's all good.
Watch California Jam
Belly laughs or what. I so prefer comedy music like this to the likes of Weird Al. Sure I have an album of theirs somewhere...pause...High on the hog. Don't actually remember listening to it but if it's as funny as this, I'll give it a play sometime soon. Starts off gospel with some dumb dude trying to be all profound but just talking crap then goes into a sort of poor rock n roll/southern rock mix. All the time though, there's a hint that they're being serious which makes it fun. After hearing it, I have images of people with 8 fingers, no toes and a tail where their father is also their brother.
Ah, no, that would be Kid Rock fans.
@@zappafan012 No, I know exactly what I mean.
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@@zappafan012 🙈🙉🙊
☺️very funny
Only rock band I know the features a wash board.
Haven't heard these guys in a long while. Had a couple of their albums back in the day, but there was better southern rock to listen to imo. As stated, lead singer Jim Dandy wore spandex and did a lot of leaping, splits and the like. If you've ever seen early Van Halen live videos, David Lee Roth stole some of those moves, admittedly so. Funny as well that Sifa mentioned Sabbath or actually Ozzy, Bark At the Moon. As the one from this band that had the most success was/is the drummer. Indeed, he was the drummer on the first Ozzy solo albums, then went to the band Whitesnake, of whom he still plays w/ to this day. Great hard rock drummer w/ chops galore. I would get a lot more mileage from a couple of other bands you mentioned; ie: Little Feat and Kansas...two tremendous bands w/ many a great album, especially in the 70's.
Great info, thanks K!
@@SightAfterDark Drummer is Tommy Aldridge btw
My $0.02 is that they hit their high water mark with the Raunch n Roll Live album. Everything before and after was not as good.
James Owen huh? I've been called worse. 🙂
🥰sorry, thanks James
Sounds like a CCR wannabe.