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Ram Jam - "Black Betty" | My Seventies Music

Ram Jam – “Black Betty”

by Paul

I associate the hard hitting “Black Betty” from Ram Jam with the year 1977*, when I was in my second year at university, and my first year flatting after being on campus in 1976.

This is actually the first time I have seen a video of it, I had no idea what Ram Jam looked like.

In this fun video out on the lawn in front of the house they definitely look VERY 1970s:

It turns out the song (and the expression)  “Black Betty” has quite a history, which you can read about here.

Whatever, the Ram Jam song “Black Betty” is clean cut Seventies rock music with a sound that stays with you for years!

Nuff said…

Paul

* No wonder – just found out here that the version of “Black Betty” we know, though recorded and released earlier by Bill Bartlett’s previous band Starstruck, was released by Ram Jam in 1977.

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