oh Black Betty blam de blam!
maggies...@my-deja.com
heard "Black Betty" on the radio... i don't really know or care who
sings it, maybe golden earring or something.
anyhoo, the song sort goes like this: "oh black betty blam de lam oh
black betty blam de blam" and on and on like that for what seems like
an eternity.
Now I remember in Bob's Tarantula, he has a chapter entitled..
maybe 'Black Betty' in which he proceeds to write "black betty ram de
blam... something about a pigfoot ram de blam" or words to that effect.
I was wondering if the above band credited or cited Bob on their
song... and if someone could provide the links to both Black Betty the
song and Black Betty from Tarantula i would be much obliged.. i would
like to look at the similarities a little further.
cheers
Geoff
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tom
Jeff in LA
If your looking for credits,
then all of them should
be acknowledging
one Mr. Leadbelly.
tom
maggies...@my-deja.com wrote:
ok, first, i think you're talking about a piece of crap song called black
betty by ram jam. how can you listen to that fucking shite? what's wrong
with you? anyway, that's besides the fucking point. for your information,
there happens to be another song called black betty and it can be found in
the alan lomax collection of texas folk songs.
so i doubt ram jam, whoever the fuck they are, credited bob's little book
probably wasn't ram freaking jam's damn source in the first place. what do
you think? see how fast i figured all that out? and by myself too. why
are you so lazy? we're not going to be here for you every step of the way,
young man. next time show a little initiative why don't ya buddy.
as far as tarantula --
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/4909/tarantula.html
"Having a Weird Drink with the Long Tall Stranger
back betty, black bready blam de lam! bloody had a bab blam de lam! hire
the handicapped blam de lam! put him on the wheel blam de lam! burn him in
the coffee
blam de lam! cut him with a fish knife blam de lam! send him off to college
& pet him with a drumstick blam de lam! boil him in the cookbook blam de
lam! fix him up an elephant blam de lam! sell him to the doctors blam de
lam ... back betty, big bready blam de lam! betty had a milkman, blam de
lam! sent him to the chain gang blam de lam! fixed him up a navel, blam de
lam (hold that tit while i git it. Hold it right there while i hit it
blam!) fed him lotza girdles, raised him in pneumonia black bloody, itty
bitty, blam de lam! said he had a lampchop, blam de lam! had him in a
stocking, stuck artichokes in his ears, planted him in green beans & stuck
him on a compass blam de lam! last time i seed him, blam de lam! he was
standing in a window, blam de lam! hundred floors up, blam de lam! with his
prayers & his pigfoot, blam de lam! black betty, black betty blam de lam!
betty had a loser blam de lam, i spied him on the ocean with a long string
of muslims-blam de lam! all going quack quack ... blam de lam! all going
quack quack. blam!"
there you go...
ya lazy ho
what kind of name is geof anyway?
tom
Jeff in LA wrote:
well, since jeff here spilled the god damn beans, here are the lyrics to
black betty. (jeff, thanks for your input, but i wanted to make geoff -
what kind of weird name is that anyway? - do a little work on his own,
the lazy bitch.)
ram jam's black betty lyrics -
BLACK BETTY
===========
Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
Black Betty had a child (Bam-ba-Lam)
The damn thing gone wild (Bam-ba-Lam)
She said, "I'm worryin' outta mind" (Bam-ba-Lam)
The damn thing gone blind (Bam-ba-Lam)
I said Oh, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
Oh, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
She really gets me high (Bam-ba-Lam)
You know that's no lie (Bam-ba-Lam)
She's so rock steady (Bam-ba-Lam)
And she's always ready (Bam-ba-Lam)
Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
She's from Birmingham (Bam-ba-Lam)
Way down in Alabam' (Bam-ba-Lam)
Well, she's shakin' that thing (Bam-ba-Lam)
Boy, she makes me sing (Bam-ba-Lam)
Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)
Whoa, Black Betty
BAM-BA-LAM
------------------------------------------------------------------------
SONG WRITTEN BY HUDDIE LEDBETTER
their version sucks. listen to this shit -- god man the seventies
really blew hard man.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/greg/bb.html
even the ram jam fans admits the music sucks...geoff, please stop
listening to this shit.
tom
tom wrote:
> their version sucks. listen to this shit -- god man the seventies
> really blew hard man.
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/greg/bb.html
>
> even the ram jam fans admits the music sucks...geoff, please stop
> listening to this shit.
more dirt on these racist bastards -
RAM JAM BIOGRAPHY
FORMED: New York, NY
The members of Ram Jam were Bill Barlett (former lead guitarist of the Lemon
Pipers), Pete Charles (drummer), Myke Scavone (lead singer), and Howie
Arthur Blauvett, who sang with Billy Joel in two earlier groups (the Hassles
and El Primo). Ram Jam's only hit, "Black Betty," created quite a stir when
Epic Records released it. The recording session was the brainstorm of
Barlett and bubblegum producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz. Two civil
right groups, the NAACP and CORE, called for a boycott of the song, claiming
it insulted black women, notwithstanding the fact that it was written by
Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter -- a black man. Despite the controversy, it
still reached the number 18 spot on Billboard's pop chart in September 1977.
The Cincinnati band Starstruck had released a more driving, riveting version
of "Black Betty" on the Truckstar label before Ram Jam's version.
Starstruck's version received little airplay or recognition; ironically,
future Ram Jam member Barlett had been a member of Starstruck when they
recorded "Black Betty."
In the early '90s the producers remixed "Betty" and got an international hit
for their efforts. The band released two LPs: Ram Jam (1977) and Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Ram (1978). Epic issued only three singles by the
rockers. Blauvelt joined Spitball, a funky blues type band, in the '90s and
performed with them until he died of a heart attack. Billy Joel often
dedicates "We Didn't Start the Fire" to Blauvelt when he performs live.
Barlett still plays in the southwestern Ohio/eastern Indiana area. The
whereabouts of other Ram Jam alumni are unknown. ~ Andrew Hamilton, All
Music Guide
--
we can only hope they are rotting in hell where they belong
Zuke
This goes back to Leadbelly I think and probably further back than
that. Don't let it get into your mind! It will became a strand in your
brain and pop up at the most inopportune time, like job interviews
or when you are pulled over by the police.
Tarantula is online somewhere, I've stumbled across it several times.
An experiment might be to go to a search engine and type in 'blam de blam"
and see what kind of hits you get.
Later,
Zuke
>
>Geoff
>
>
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>http://www.deja.com/
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maggies...@my-deja.com
first off thanks for the info, Secondly, yer somewhat of wanker...
this is a discussion group, one comes here to give, learn and discuss
information... and if the name 'geoff' spelled the way it is, is a
little too much for your ignorant self... well... i really don't know
what to say... you probably haven't travelled too far from home have
you?
-geoff
tom
maggies...@my-deja.com wrote:
first off, mate, you're welcome. secondly, i think you mean "a
wanker"...not just wanker. duh. that sounded so like you were trying to be
all english and shit. trust me, it's "a wanker" not just wanker, i've seen
eastenders a bunch of times and though i can't figure out what they're
saying most of the time i'm pretty sure it's "a wanker" and not just
wanker. fourth, i don't know what my extensive travels have to do with my
very simple question about your name, i really don't, but i've been around
this whole country and world but i never yet found a geoff so yo like what
the hell how do you pronounce that? rhymes with golf kinda? oh, and of
all the versions i've listened to this evening, ram jam's isn't that bad
really. it's kind of rocking. (the website with the lyrics and the song
on it sounded different than the mp3 of it did, not as bad.) the version i
heard of leadbelly was ok but kind of boring. the version off of alan
lomax's collection is better. i haven't heard the house dance remix yet.
i'll let you know. you still shouldn't be so damn lazy, next time you have
a question man do a little research on it if you're really not sure.