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- From: martin@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Martin Gorman)
- Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
- Subject: Re: An older "Black Betty"
- Message-ID: <7913@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 12:54:35 GMT
- References: <93015.152139DLD116@psuvm.psu.edu> <1993Jan19.213916.28029@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <WILLIE.93Jan20133944@amalthea.osf.org>
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- willie@osf.org (William Williams) writes:
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- >>its by a 70's group called ram jam. i don't know the name of the album.
- >>that's the one that goes:
- >> oh black betty whamalam
- >> oh black betty whamalam.......right?????
-
- >I don't know Ram Jam, but the lyrics posted here confirm my suspicion
- >that this is the song I first heard (in about '63) on the great
- >"Blues, Rags, and Hollers" record by Koerner, Ray, and Glover.
- >Dave Snaker Ray and Tony "Little Son" Glover teamed up on a terrific
- >album, "Ashes in My Whiskey" a couple of years ago -- their first
- >since the 60's.
-
- >I would say that "Black Betty" is a holler. (Does Ram Jam do it with
- >only clapping and slapping?)
- >
- Ram Jam do it with electricity. Fine stompin' version. The original is
- aeons old by Harry Leadbetter aka Leadbelly, and old rag-time blues
- artist who also wrote "Out on the Western Plain" what Rory Gallagher
- does so well these days.
-