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Love that analogy! I'm just wondering if they are talking about the soda pop or the original "Mountain Dew", moonshine?

The original mountain dew bottles had a hillbilly with a jug on it.

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Hi you need to check out incredible bongo band Apachi.

Yup we did that lots at camping on the battenkill in arlington VT. I had a perminit sight 19 we Rocked them keg party's good thing the owners son was in on it!!! They didn't care!!! Lots of beer and pot! 😁 The 70s Rocked drinking age was 18! 👍👍😁🥳🥳🥳🥳

and you know this, the 70s were the best & I still do that pretty much every weekend since, some things never end - PEACE LOVE n HIPPYNESS!

The 70s were awesome! Those were my teen years, high school years. Down south, where I'm from, we jammed out in someone's back field, with a bonfire, and big ol' boom boxes with plenty of extra batteries to keep the party jammin'!! 😄 Man, I miss those days!

Same in Smithtown.

HEY, that's Also where the "Long Island Medium", Teresa Caputo Lives!!!!

your so right

Nothing more satisfying in the world, than making your dogs think that you are crazy, or bringing them a cheeseburger and make them drool! Rock on, Wanda.

Your dog may be right!! ;)

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I just say ARBY's, and my dogs start to drool, lol... OMG! You are SO cool! I love you sweetheart.

Love that! 😂

What's funny when you said slaps so hard it reminded me of my buddy's girl bent over a bar stool as he slapped her ass every time the said bam a lam. Shoot it was probably 20 years, or so ago. And I still laugh when I hear the song.

@@jacqueline4514 LMAO

Lmao

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the child is the round discharged by the rifle. It was not accurate, hence the damn thing went wild

@@geminirat60 also hence the damn thing gone blind lol

Thank you for your explanations, makes sense.

Spot on guys.

@@geminirat60 I thought the "the damn thing went wild" came from the rifle's successor (OP's Brown Bess) who wouldn't shoot straight, therefore wild and blind.

It was a prison whip

It's about a woman I can tell you about Black Betty you guys are great and I want to thank you and keep it going JB

All i have to say is LOL Us 70s BRATS were very spoiled

Me too so glad we found them.

It Sure Does!

I was 13 when this hit the charts. This was a "trigger" for a party. Got you going hard out.

That is one more hit than I have. And if you are going to have one hit....

If you have not checked out Ram Jam's other songs! Y'all are truly missing out!

The old rock has always been the best music.

It's the entrance theme I play in my head whenever I enter a room full of other people.

Huddy (Leadbelly) Ledbetter actually went to prison . . . . . TWICE. Once for murder and once for attempted murder. Probably learned this song while on the chain gang.

@Gerald H you have most of the background of the song. Black Betty was the original rifle that they loved, the child was the second generation of the rifle that was wild. Didn't shoot straight was like being blind and was manufactured in Birmingham Al.

@@daivdash I thought the blind bit was because the rifle blew up and blinded the shooter..

That's exactly how we rolled back in the 70s.

Tell me he didn’t sing that as well? I would be shocked!😮

Myke Scavone sang the lead vocals. Graduated HS in 1966, and shortly after became a member of the Doughboys, a NJ based group. Currently Myke lives in Long Branch. No he was never in the Lemon Pipers. As a friend, I can say that Myke still plays a wicked harmonica Check Wiki no member of the Lemon Pipers where in Ram Jam

Wow, didn't know he was from the Lemon Pipers. Loved Green Tambourine.

Do you have any sources I can read about this musket? I've done a bit of research, by no means exhaustive, and have come up with no such rifle or musket. I would appreciate any information you can provide.

I'm repeating what I heard from an other review...not an expert.

But then they don’t get to see the artists and all their groovyness

1/2 the fun of this video is realizing that it was shot for about $20 (1977 dollars) worth of weed and beer.

I believe the studio version and also it has an extended guitar solo but I believe the drum solo is longer as well have to go back and listen to it again but if I remember correctly I could be wrong but I thought the there was an extended drum solo as well as the guitar solo!

Yes. Listen to the full studio version.

@@Xcris_crosX true, but that face melting guitar solo is worth it! I hated how old songs and music execs chopped down songs (always the istrumental breaks) cause they thought that people would not be able to focus for anything other than the status quo.

From what I heard the label gave them some money to make the video 500 bucks or something like that so they shot the video in their back yard and spent the money on beer

“Hotter than a two dollar pistol” The Possum.

There is an extended version.

And I understand the song refers to a famous Rifle named "Black Betty" (because it had a distinctive black stock) and nothing to do with race at all. The line "Bam-a-Lam" refers to the rifle firing.

>>> For youtube to take it down, presumably because they think it's racist, is bogus>>> Naah...racist is so "last year" Now...it's considered "cultural appropriation"!🙄

The 70s had the best rock......... ROCK ON 1977 Released Black Betty

If they took it down, um, it's back up. Where did you hear that?

Rob is talking about YT taking down his previous reaction not the original song. YT probably took it down due to a copyright strike.

Trust in The Lord Jesus Christ only for SALVATION You won't go wrong His Promise I HAVE toons of peace knowing I'm His and He is mine fore EVER God bless Best NEWS ever

TONS OF PEICE NOW FOR EVER

Thank you for your reply! Have an awesome day!

Thank you for your reply!

The song was actually recorded by the guitarists' previous band Starstruck. It was released by them shortly before they broke up and was a minor regional hit. After he formed Ram Jam the song was edited a little bit (no new recording, just remixed it a little) and re-released under the new band name. Bill Bartlett (the guitarist) was the sole lead vocalist of Starstruck and the only common member between Starstruck and Ram Jam. Bartlett was also the guitarist for a one hit wonder group from the '60s called The Lemon Pipers (Green Tambourine). Starstruck had a few members from The Lemon Pipers in it as well.

Good info. I've watched this video many times and couldn't figure out why the guy in the white pants was in the video. He didn't do anything except jump and clap. Thanks for solving the mystery!

There's some GREAT Australian music from the 80s - Goanna, Midnight Oil, Men at Work, Split Enz/Crowded House, INXS, Divinyls, Hoodoo Gurus, Mental as Anything, Redgum, Icehouse. I'm sure there's lots more. That's just what I remember off the top of my head.

Yeah, the Aussie band Spiderbait did an awesome cover of this with a longer solo. I’d definitely recommend you guys check it out.

@@kmj217 you forgot AC/DC and my favourite Aussie band ever, Cold Chisel.

@@geoffmartins99 I always forget that AC/DC is Aussie. Now I'm going to have to do a deep dive into Cold Chisel

Yes sir, song by Hudie William Ledbetter

what

We gotta be good at something

Geaux big or geaux home 💝💝💝😂💝

I don't remember the name, but the oldest version I have heard sounded like a 90 something year old black dude singing solo at about 1/10 that speed, and mumbled so much I could hardly understand it. I think it was recorded in the teens or 20's.

Actually the most recent version was by a band called Spiderbait from 2004.

It was probably British in origin not African American

A version of the song has been around since...wait for it: the revolutionary war.

​@@skeletorlikespotatoes7846 oh really! You're wrong but of course you want to whitewash something else in this world, everything was created by white people in your world!

YES! The long, live version kicks a$$.

Yes! Amazing!

Oh yeah! Absolutely! I love that song! The one from 1969 is my fav! 🥰❤️😍

I grew up in East Texas, so know what you mean, class of 85, Hull-Daisetta

​@@MrFrankenass Hell yeah! Orange, TX here

@@nealgates2446 I was just in Anahuac last week

THEM 70s were the NUKE BOMB

Add Pink Floyd onto that list.

Wait a minute lol Hold the line By Toto 1978 Remember that banger But no back yard party ? Just a nother late 70s jam

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My first horse was named Beauty she was black and a beauty thanks for reminding me of her.😊

Black Beauty was a horse, Bam Alam! Of course, of course, Bam Alam! 🎧 💓 🎶

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Yeeeessss!

Brown Bess

Not true. Ther was no such rifle.

@@gravitypronepart2201 "Brown Bess" is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives. “Black Betty” is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material; in this case an 18th-century marching cadence about a flintlock musket.

The BS historian's factual approach to the origins of Black Betty.. bshistorian.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/whoa-oh-who-was-black-betty/

@@SquawFox I would have to differ. The term Brown Bess is not of obscure origin no matter what Wikipedia says. Here's a much better source which give credence to it's origins and when it fell out of use as obsolete. It should be noted that nowhere does he mention a "Black Betty" firearm either prior to the Brown Bess or after it. "For many years the earliest written use of the name was thought to be this entry in Francis Grose’s famous dictionary of slang, first published in 1785: ‘Brown Bess. A soldier’s firelock. To hug Brown Bess; to carry a firelock, or serve as a private soldier‘. This has led some to claim that ‘Brown Bess’ is historically incorrect in the early 18th century. An earlier reference was found in the American ‘Connecticut Courant’ newspaper issue of April 2, 1771, which was actually reprinted from British papers of earlier that year. This reported remarks made by Hannah Snell, famous for having successfully posed as a man and served as a soldier in the British army. Snell said: ‘…but if you are afraid of the sea, take Brown Bess on your shoulders and march through Germany as I have done.’ In the course of my research, I was able to push things back even further and unearthed several previously unpublished examples. I will give the two earliest here. In 2010, archivist Avril Pedley found in the British Library a letter written by John Grose, a young British clerk in the service of the East India Company. In this letter, dated October 17, 1763, Grose reported being issued with a ‘Coat, Pair of Breeches and musket (alias Brown Bess)’ upon joining the local militia. There is a possible even earlier instance appears in an anonymous biography entitled ‘The Adventures of a Kidnapped Orphan’. It describes events that would have taken place during the 1750s but was not actually published until 1767. Of the titular ‘orphan’, the author wrote that ‘he began to handle Brown Bess with tolerable dexterity’. The other interesting conclusion that I came to in this research is that those of us who study, collect, or re-enact with muskets have been far too restrictive in our use of ‘Brown Bess’. People who know their antique firearms tend to reserve the name for the ‘Long’ and ‘Short’ Land Pattern muskets that entered service from 1730, and some include the Board of Ordnance India Pattern introduced in 1793. In actual historical usage, however, the name applied just as much to the New Land flintlock musket of 1802 and also to percussion muskets, notably the Pattern 1842, which many today would never think to call ‘Brown Bess’. As the percussion rifle-musket became common in the mid-19th century, the name became derogatory; ‘Brown Bess’ was the obsolete old war horse being replaced by the latest cutting edge mass-produced rifle technology. So there you are. Far from being an obscure name, ‘Brown Bess’ was simply an extension of an existing slang term for a common woman or sex worker. It reflected the soldier’s relationship with his personal weapon. We also now know that we can call any flintlock or percussion smoothbore musket in British service ‘Brown Bess’, just as our ancestors did. Royal Armories Johnathon Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries. The song itself is an old 'chain-gang' work song if you can believe Leadbelly who first recorded it. The words in the Ram Jam version weren't original to the song but were written by Ram Jam guitarist Bill Bartlett in the early to mid 1970's.

Says who?

Sorry but Leadbelly wrote this song many years ago.

@@teridemola2386 Sorry but ... Leadbelly wrote a song named "Black Betty" in 1939 with the verse "Oh, Black Betty, Bam-A-Lam", but that's about as far as the similarities go. Bill Bartlett wrote all the music and most of the lyrics "in this rock version" in 1977... And, although the meaning of the Leadbelly version is a well-discussed matter of opinion, Bartlett's song is about Betty Page.

@@Pothos969 The Ram Jam record credits Lead Belly (H Ledbetter) as the sole songwriter.

@@gotham61 Sounds like you can believe the Record Company or you can believe Bill Bartlett's own words. Why don't you go listen to Lead Belly's version and compare its lyrics to Bill Bartlett's version. BTW, Lead Belly died in 1949.

@@Pothos969 The Lead Belly version has many of the same lyrics, the same tune, and the same rhythm. No artist, record company, or music publisher would give up the rights to a song if they believed they had a legitimate claim to it. Bartlett can claim that he "wrote" it, but the truth is he has never made a penny from the publishing rights, because it's not his song.

professor of rock did a good video on the songs history kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbybaJapsM_JeWg.html

Amen to that, I’ve been leaving comments on other of their videos about checking out the mighty DP!

I preferred the Pecan brothers myself. 😉

@@k_salter Lol

Allman Brother's

John Cougar....aka John Cougar Mellencamp....aka John Mellencamp. He went through a couple of name changes, lol.

Oh please, the Allman bros,not almond

One of the biggest songs from the FANTASTIC 70s AMBER ,,Your decade