Black Betty" (Roud 11668) is a 20th century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. Some sources claim it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material;[1] in this case an 18th century marching cadence about a flintlock musket. There are numerous recorded versions,
including a cappela, folk, and rock arrangements. The best known modern recordings are rock versions by Ram Jam and Spiderbait, both of which were hits.
i dont know if lead belly was the first with black betty. but i dont think its a song made up inside a jail. most likely people knew the song before they got in jail. OR they were in jail for so long that the song had plenty of time to be made up inside jail :)
@mokaey this indeed was the first recording and credited to convict James Baker and a group at Central State Farm, Sugar Land, Texas (a State prison farm).Baker was also known as ironhead.
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@1ladiesman102 What are you the official 'youtube KKK division' grammar monitor? people talk a million different ways, get over yourself Cletis. The south lost
If you're going to critisize others you really should be sure that you are standing on solid ground. It's 'WHO were put in jail'. Also, 'it's 'were'...' should have been the start of a new sentence (I've taken the liberty of inserting the apostrophe that you omitted). As for 'learn to talk and write', I feel that that too should be contained as a discrete sentence.Your punctuation and grammar really are appalling. Every day's a school day, you shit-bag racist
@1ladiesman102 If you're going to critisize others you really should be sure that you are standing on solid ground. It's 'WHO were put in jail'. Also, 'it's 'were'...' should have been the start of a new sentence (I've taken the liberty of inserting the apostrophe that you omitted). As for 'learn to talk and write', I feel that that too should be contained as a discrete sentence.Your punctuation and grammar really are appalling. Every day's a school day, you shit-bag racist
This is awesome, and possibly correct as the first recording. However not the orgin of the song (from chain gangs) and not created from black culture (slave songs) as some have suggested in these posts. Its even older and though it was sung by slaves its original version is as old as the Revolutionary War and was used as a cadence march. And that cadence march is credited to being done by Benjamin Franklin. It has been adapted MANY times since.
I like the sounds of the voices singing , but it gives me the willies ..... cos
It's a curiosity of human nature & a testament to ' chinese whispers ' - not to mention also a pretty f*ckin sad & weird thing that what eventually became a massively successfull commercial rock/pop song several decades later , started out it's life as a story about a woman who was enslaved on account of the colour of her skin & then consequentially probably got raped by " the captain " - listen
@DeportAnchorBabies anyone can add scratch sounds effects just like adobe adds scratches and hairs to a video or film shot. Plus you can hear it is looped.
The song was first recorded in the field by U.S. musicologists John and Alan Lomax in 1933, performed a cappella by the convict James Baker (also known as Iron Head) and a group at Central State Farm, Sugar Land, Texas.
The song was first recorded in the field by U.S. musicologists John and Alan Lomax in 1933, performed a cappella by the convict James Baker (also known as Iron Head) and a group at Central State Farm, Sugar Land, Texas.
Hay muchos grupos que han hecho canciones a partir de otras antiguas cantadas por los esclavos negros, por ejemplo, y eso no tiene nada de malo. Todo lo contrario. Es bueno conocer su origen, pero eso no les desacredita en absoluto.
@mokaey hey why not?!?!?! El puede ESCRIBIR español tanto como quiera, como yo, instead, if you want him to speak english to understand him, just write it...
@mokaey hey man greate vid i noticed u dont have any info posted on this song soo soo i thout i might help you out first thing is the song is writen and perfomred by lead belly recorded in 1842 its from the diggin my potatoes album witch im getting u this info off of i bught the cd 2-3 years ago :P and it was recorded while he was in jail by dnm i cant read it the tingy is scratched but yea hope tht helps u
figures, a one-hit wonder, all their other songs suck, only the good songs come from the old school, oops i did it again was a classic too that re-emerged as a brittney spears song
@Dmitrishak shut up. kkk are devoid of reason. give me a true reason why the kkk rule. i will strike you down with a reason as to why you are all idiots.
@mikerebel not at all. but that is why the "gangsta thing" started. the young black rappers who first achieved success were proud and they wanted to show how rich they were while coming out of the ghetto. then the "game" developed.
It is... its legacy is blues, jazz, rock, and arguably all modern music. Rap wouldn't exist without everything that came before it, including this. And besides, the "gangsta culture" that MTV is imposing isn't a legacy of african-american culture, its a legacy of white youth culture.
This was recorded in 1933. James "Ironhead" Baker sang lead. It was recorded at the Central State Farm in Sugar Land, Texas. The first studio recording was done by Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter in 1939.
@FieldMarchall so what are you saying No blacks are gangsters the colinizers are the most gangsta to kill off a people and take a whole continent is gangtsa we are living in a nation of wolves what you think we are going to keep being sheep. Hell whites bring the drugs in the country but blame us
I can not believe whites every were I go yall are commenting on videos dealing with Black culture what the hell is with yall obsession with African americans and Africans in general Yall are weird
an to the devil who read this and want to comment shut the fuck up why are you on this video commenting in the first place are we your God or something I answerd you evil ass before you posted on a comment that was not aimed at your Pale ass in the first place dam yall are sick I was on face book I saw an all white group call "black betty" With a white Black Betty psychotic caucasoids need to take meds
@BamaBoy205SR I wasn't talking about that, I don't dislike black people, i hate niggers.. that ain't the same, just the way they act, black people act normal, niggers show off.
@FieldMarchall Well I do not hate all Caucasus people as well I just hate those Pale Nigger devils who steal culture and history of Africans and think nothing is wrong with colonization and genocide and thing the wrongs that have been done should not be reversed
Like I think all the slavetrading Presidents should be taken off of American currency and replaced with Native American cheifs most racist disagree with that thoe
@mokaey, why? it wasn't a depression for us. We were already dirt poor. I've never heard anyone in my family say that the depression affected our people greatly. Its just like today; I'm too poor to be affected by this "recession. I've never been so thankful to be a musician.
wtf its no where near black betty by ram jam. this is a folk song and it aint even the original talked about black betty being a hooker and the kid robbing a bank locked in prison!
@blackrowstones this is the original. it was an african american blues spirital written in the early 1930's. first recording was in 1933. this is that original recording. ram jam's cover was in the 70s...
i was talking about this is not the original this is a remake of the spiritual the original was talking about black bettys child going to jail.lead belly's version was about having sex with her and having a child that turned out to not his.ram jam version was about having the hots for betty and she had children that were not hers.thus commemorating the Leadbelly version.everyone keeps sayen they ripped it off!they all go together.
"Black Betty" was the name that prisoners gave the wagon or truck they were transported in from the prison to the job site and back. She is an empty promise of cool rest and comfort actually serving to prolong suffering and misery. Typically a windowless black box that would soak up the brutal heat of the Southern sun all day long, so that by the end of the day the only shade waiting for them was hotter than an oven.
asians were into wood percussion and metal symbols and possibly string instruments as well. Europeans and Middle easterners created brass instruments, Drums with animal skins were invented by different tribes such as native americans, afrians and even western european tribes. Then you take African slave music who incorporated irish celtic and french style music and you form jazz and rock. "Rock and Roll" was a black term similar to "Rolling in the hay" or "Making whoopie"
Mokaey, I got ya missing lyric for you. He says"Well I come from Corsicana/ and Im goin to Texarkana" In other words... he's bout to make a run for it
A musician myself I LOVE the orginal versions of various songs (all styles) (going through and early 1910/20s bluegrass phase at the moment) this is brilliant!!!! Thank you for posting this!!!! Question...Where did you find this historical piece of music??
Awesome
fostej15piano 1 day ago
Awesome
F2L4Life 1 week ago
sick post dude gj
nonphixionlm 2 weeks ago
ok so this might be the first recording (even though it could exist before from someone else that didn't record it) but who sings this then?
pqstr 1 month ago
This has so much oomph and funk it dorsnt need any musical accompaniment
Aqene1000 1 month ago
no
CO244 2 months ago
i like ram jams version better :(
IrishAmerican1234 2 months ago
Thanks for posting this! Bit of history is cool for me, I think it's a great song and love to know it's real "roots"! Cool...☺
AnnaLee33 3 months ago
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mahatmacoatmahandbag 4 months ago
just needs some drums and a guitar!!!!
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Really good song i had no idea this was the original thanks for posting
crazycody6789 4 months ago
:-.
W1LDWESLEY 4 months ago
Well you see he isnt writing or talking at all you ignorant fuck he is typing.P.S. I thought your name was dicksuck69
waffleiron1000 4 months ago
Isnt this a song about a flintlock pistol and a lady?
crazycody6789 5 months ago
Black Betty" (Roud 11668) is a 20th century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. Some sources claim it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material;[1] in this case an 18th century marching cadence about a flintlock musket. There are numerous recorded versions,
SBA050980 5 months ago
including a cappela, folk, and rock arrangements. The best known modern recordings are rock versions by Ram Jam and Spiderbait, both of which were hits.
SBA050980 5 months ago
Oh and I just looked up the organs of this song and the song had been recorded be for Leadbelly recorded it. above is the article :)
SBA050980 5 months ago
This is a part of history! Thanks for posting this :)
SBA050980 5 months ago
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS
MegaBigTruckDriver 6 months ago
1ladiesman102 (stupid name): Why don't you learn punctuation before you criticise others as to their grammar? F***ing moron.
Titanium59 6 months ago
it's James Baker
beeteep60 7 months ago
i dont know if lead belly was the first with black betty. but i dont think its a song made up inside a jail. most likely people knew the song before they got in jail. OR they were in jail for so long that the song had plenty of time to be made up inside jail :)
PurpleRebelBlazer 7 months ago
look up alan lomax library of congress, that'll tell u the story.... there's many good very early negro recordiongs and spiritualt. from me to you
PurpleRebelBlazer 7 months ago
who would mute it at 00:00
ashjoma 7 months ago
wod you get this
mia99ify 8 months ago
@mia99ify found an old LP from my dad.
he got it from his grandfather
mokaey 8 months ago 12
@mokaey this indeed was the first recording and credited to convict James Baker and a group at Central State Farm, Sugar Land, Texas (a State prison farm).Baker was also known as ironhead.
mahatmacoatmahandbag 4 months ago
We were study Parchman prisons in my music appreciation class and I had no idea one of my fave songs was originally a work song!
mluv80smusic 8 months ago
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Whoever made this video said something about "we cannot forget the innocent people that was put in jail" its "were" nigger learn how to write and talk
1ladiesman102 9 months ago
@1ladiesman102 lol you could not be more wrong about me...
im white...
im from norway...
lol you fail at trollin...
but thanks for telling me about my spelling error haha
mokaey 9 months ago
@1ladiesman102 lol you could not be more wrong about me...
im white...
im from norway...
lol you fail at trollin...
but thanks for telling me about my spelling error haha
mokaey 9 months ago 16
@1ladiesman102 What are you the official 'youtube KKK division' grammar monitor? people talk a million different ways, get over yourself Cletis. The south lost
system922 7 months ago
@1ladiesman102
If you're going to critisize others you really should be sure that you are standing on solid ground. It's 'WHO were put in jail'. Also, 'it's 'were'...' should have been the start of a new sentence (I've taken the liberty of inserting the apostrophe that you omitted). As for 'learn to talk and write', I feel that that too should be contained as a discrete sentence.Your punctuation and grammar really are appalling. Every day's a school day, you shit-bag racist
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@1ladiesman102 If you're going to critisize others you really should be sure that you are standing on solid ground. It's 'WHO were put in jail'. Also, 'it's 'were'...' should have been the start of a new sentence (I've taken the liberty of inserting the apostrophe that you omitted). As for 'learn to talk and write', I feel that that too should be contained as a discrete sentence.Your punctuation and grammar really are appalling. Every day's a school day, you shit-bag racist
Riordan59 5 months ago
@1ladiesman102 You are mentaly retarded.
MickeySerbia1991 5 months ago
@1ladiesman102 Why don't you, you ignorant, racist, peckerwood.?
MsAppassionata 5 months ago
@1ladiesman102 P.S.- The only "ladies" that you probably would appeal to are the ones you have to pay.
MsAppassionata 5 months ago
@1ladiesman102 *it's
1phully 3 months ago
@1ladiesman102 nazi
Hoppermine 2 months ago
I love that part at the end where he whispers "musta been the captain's". buuuurrrrn!
brainburrito 9 months ago
This is awesome, and possibly correct as the first recording. However not the orgin of the song (from chain gangs) and not created from black culture (slave songs) as some have suggested in these posts. Its even older and though it was sung by slaves its original version is as old as the Revolutionary War and was used as a cadence march. And that cadence march is credited to being done by Benjamin Franklin. It has been adapted MANY times since.
pendragonshall 9 months ago
So sad :'( why is there so many racist people in the world
dontlookatme011197 10 months ago
everyone is to busy being a label instead of an american person these days.
TheDuckseason 1 year ago
@TheDuckseason im not following...
mokaey 11 months ago
Lead Belly is the original. i dont think this one is the original.
lilfires 1 year ago
Lead Belly may have been the first recorded version, but the song had been around for decades already.
tetrisclock 10 months ago
I like the sounds of the voices singing , but it gives me the willies ..... cos
It's a curiosity of human nature & a testament to ' chinese whispers ' - not to mention also a pretty f*ckin sad & weird thing that what eventually became a massively successfull commercial rock/pop song several decades later , started out it's life as a story about a woman who was enslaved on account of the colour of her skin & then consequentially probably got raped by " the captain " - listen
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luckyhorsecinema 1 year ago
real music of real man. respect from Russia. Much better then Ram Jam.
89109357799 1 year ago
WOW! Great great stuff!!! love Mr. Lead Belly's, & Ram Jam version but this is Awsome! This is History!
ants5431 1 year ago
@coptersoisoi wow your are impressive...(ur dumb)
mokaey 1 year ago 2
@mokaey you're a gosh darn raciserist. maybe Meat Loaf wrote it for Ram Jam. I think that's what happon an stouf.
coptersoisoi 1 year ago
@mokaey *You're*
coptersoisoi 1 year ago
@mokaey *You're x2
RainingWhores 8 months ago
This is fake. Ram Jam wrote it.
coptersoisoi 1 year ago
@coptersoisoi fuck off idiot
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@DeportAnchorBabies anyone can add scratch sounds effects just like adobe adds scratches and hairs to a video or film shot. Plus you can hear it is looped.
coptersoisoi 1 year ago
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@coptersoisoi and you are a moron...
speakingincolor 1 year ago
irgendwie is das schlecht :X ...hört sich an wien paar besoffene !
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The song was first recorded in the field by U.S. musicologists John and Alan Lomax in 1933, performed a cappella by the convict James Baker (also known as Iron Head) and a group at Central State Farm, Sugar Land, Texas.
PositivFritid 1 year ago
The song was first recorded in the field by U.S. musicologists John and Alan Lomax in 1933, performed a cappella by the convict James Baker (also known as Iron Head) and a group at Central State Farm, Sugar Land, Texas.
PositivFritid 1 year ago 5
@PositivFritid so ive been told....
hehe hei norsking. skjer?
mokaey 1 year ago
@mokaey I have a "video" with the same song uploaded :))) I am from Denmark !
PositivFritid 1 year ago
@PositivFritid ohhhhh vel hei....
mokaey 1 year ago
Meiner Meinung nach besser als von Ram Jam oder Spiderbait
Cubeplayer91 1 year ago
Class....
carrlyds 1 year ago
nice
djplantan 1 year ago
Hay muchos grupos que han hecho canciones a partir de otras antiguas cantadas por los esclavos negros, por ejemplo, y eso no tiene nada de malo. Todo lo contrario. Es bueno conocer su origen, pero eso no les desacredita en absoluto.
evaristo84 1 year ago 9
@evaristo84 dont speak spanish please.
mokaey 1 year ago 3
@mokaey abrase gay (fkc u men), se habla español
danielalexander1992 1 year ago
@mokaey hey why not?!?!?! El puede ESCRIBIR español tanto como quiera, como yo, instead, if you want him to speak english to understand him, just write it...
Genio1337 1 year ago
@mokaey dont speak english please.
micochemolamas 1 year ago
@evaristo84 the waka waka of shakira for example
Gringo532 1 year ago
thx for educating me with this1! now i know myself...thx ;)
voodoowop45s 1 year ago
@steam143 lol i could just send you the flac
mokaey 1 year ago
this is terrible
TheNightwishsoul 1 year ago
@TheNightwishsoul you are terrible
mokaey 1 year ago 13
@mokaey
how do you know im terrible you dont even know me
TheNightwishsoul 1 year ago
how come no one covers this song anymore...?
eevlwich 1 year ago
@eevlwich perhaps people have learned they should show respect....
mokaey 1 year ago
@eevlwich i will get sum1 2 4 u lol
rob1993zombie 1 year ago
hay mucha historia detrás de cada canción...sobre todo aquellas que no se han contado todavía
rosendocani 1 year ago
I think the lyrics are:
Well, I come from Corsicana
Well, I'm going to Texarkana.
phully 1 year ago
Hattie Leadbelly Leadbetter
detroitdemon 1 year ago
no it is not.........wish i could find it.
odbpaul 1 year ago
White man farted black man got jailed :D
daredevil19910724 1 year ago
I agree with u man all the way and i think that modern day black culture is destroying what their ancestor had worked for decades
alexat410 1 year ago
@alexat410 WHAT????
mokaey 1 year ago
@mokaey hey man greate vid i noticed u dont have any info posted on this song soo soo i thout i might help you out first thing is the song is writen and perfomred by lead belly recorded in 1842 its from the diggin my potatoes album witch im getting u this info off of i bught the cd 2-3 years ago :P and it was recorded while he was in jail by dnm i cant read it the tingy is scratched but yea hope tht helps u
btw Lead Belly is the bomb
GangsterChick69 1 year ago
Priceless!!!!
reditch 1 year ago
does someone have these lyrics?
lechevaliernoirboss 1 year ago
@lechevaliernoirboss
im pretty sure there in the info section of this page.
mokaey 1 year ago
the lyrics are hilarious
maleable11 1 year ago
figures, a one-hit wonder, all their other songs suck, only the good songs come from the old school, oops i did it again was a classic too that re-emerged as a brittney spears song
SomeFunkyDude79 1 year ago
just becuase Ram Jam made a song about it that became popular in the 70s, doesn't mean they were disrespecting these folks. Jeez, get a grip, man.
MPCHustle 1 year ago 3
love this and leadbelly
it's a shame that people feel the need to get all weird about it
the kkk is a moronic idea and has no basis in Godly teaching
mwinstanley7 1 year ago
without comparison
thanks for posting
daclarob 1 year ago
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White Power!!!!!!!
Dmitrishak 1 year ago
@ mikerebel so true so true this is history and great music too
dr23foxbody 1 year ago
THE ORGINAL BLACK BETTY!
outdoorn 1 year ago
this is great thank you so much for the lyrics i can stop humming them all day .
iteaire 1 year ago
dmitrishak... im white, and im just saying ur fucked up in the head. if ur so hateful against the, tell me why? what did they do to you?
Jason47D 1 year ago
@Jason47D
RESPECT!!!
Together against racism...
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Fucking nigger! KKK RULEZZZZZ!
Dmitrishak 1 year ago
@Dmitrishak shut up. kkk are devoid of reason. give me a true reason why the kkk rule. i will strike you down with a reason as to why you are all idiots.
TheHunty2010 1 year ago
@Dmitrishak fuck you your mutha fucker kkk sucks monkey dick
BebbeIsOnline 1 year ago
You know, I can gather my friends, record them as they sing, stick the vocal files to a black-and-white picture and voila!
Brilliant.
Thamer4life 1 year ago
@Thamer4life why don't you do some research on it before making bogus claims.
ASacredSpirit 1 year ago
from left to right right the 4th 1 alond was my great grandad or great great grandad not too sure parents dont talk about the past alot
riko123chillin2k7 1 year ago
black betty was a gun
thewarriors209 1 year ago
this should be the Real legacy of the african-american culture, not the gangsta "culture" MTV has been trying to impose
mikerebel 1 year ago 64
agreed
mokaey 1 year ago
@mikerebel "the gansta "culture" MTV has been trying to impose" ---> ??? ---> LOL? Give me a break.
The "gangta culture" arose due to social inequality and not because of a fancy idea of music television.
Nimaatre 1 year ago
so the social inequality makes you buy "bling-bling and cars" and show off that you have more money than other dudes?
mikerebel 1 year ago
@mikerebel not at all. but that is why the "gangsta thing" started. the young black rappers who first achieved success were proud and they wanted to show how rich they were while coming out of the ghetto. then the "game" developed.
Nimaatre 1 year ago
@mikerebel def.
farmerandthedreamer 1 year ago
@farmerandthedreamer ??
mikerebel 1 year ago
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@mikerebel
"this should be the Real legacy of the african-american culture, not the gangsta "culture" MTV has been trying to impose"
I ment "definitley (def.)" you are right =)
farmerandthedreamer 1 year ago
@mikerebel
It is... its legacy is blues, jazz, rock, and arguably all modern music. Rap wouldn't exist without everything that came before it, including this. And besides, the "gangsta culture" that MTV is imposing isn't a legacy of african-american culture, its a legacy of white youth culture.
noudthe3rd 1 year ago
@noudthe3rd that's what i was trying to say, thx for making it more clear
mikerebel 1 year ago
I still wonder who Black Betty really is?
daplayer 1 year ago
This was recorded in 1933. James "Ironhead" Baker sang lead. It was recorded at the Central State Farm in Sugar Land, Texas. The first studio recording was done by Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter in 1939.
MultiMusicnut 1 year ago
lol "We should not forget the innocent people that was put in jail."
Great song. Poor english, m'friend.
MoldyFruitBand 1 year ago 4
respect for those who have made this great song, african americans.. respect for who they used to be..
Times changed and they've all turned "gangsta" the same for all the white dudes
FieldMarchall 1 year ago 35
@FieldMarchall so what are you saying No blacks are gangsters the colinizers are the most gangsta to kill off a people and take a whole continent is gangtsa we are living in a nation of wolves what you think we are going to keep being sheep. Hell whites bring the drugs in the country but blame us
I can not believe whites every were I go yall are commenting on videos dealing with Black culture what the hell is with yall obsession with African americans and Africans in general Yall are weird
BamaBoy205SR 1 year ago
an to the devil who read this and want to comment shut the fuck up why are you on this video commenting in the first place are we your God or something I answerd you evil ass before you posted on a comment that was not aimed at your Pale ass in the first place dam yall are sick I was on face book I saw an all white group call "black betty" With a white Black Betty psychotic caucasoids need to take meds
BamaBoy205SR 1 year ago
@BamaBoy205SR I wasn't talking about that, I don't dislike black people, i hate niggers.. that ain't the same, just the way they act, black people act normal, niggers show off.
FieldMarchall 1 year ago
@FieldMarchall Well I do not hate all Caucasus people as well I just hate those Pale Nigger devils who steal culture and history of Africans and think nothing is wrong with colonization and genocide and thing the wrongs that have been done should not be reversed
Like I think all the slavetrading Presidents should be taken off of American currency and replaced with Native American cheifs most racist disagree with that thoe
BamaBoy205SR 1 year ago
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thank you! no one does this song anymore because those ram jam butchered!
eevlwich 1 year ago
come gran parte dele più famose canzoni....
saudaji1974 1 year ago
well this is all true but they recorded it after as a song
handgun559 1 year ago
it's just retarded to be saying ram jam ripped off somebody else, they were paying tribute to it. black spiritual music was at the very root of rock.
marku2009 1 year ago 4
They were probably sent to jail for walking in the wrong neighbourhood. I feel sorry for all of the African Americans during that time.
fotisuperman 1 year ago 11
(i feel sorry for all the african americans during the great depresion.)
mokaey 1 year ago
why? life probably didn't change much for them during that time if i had to guess
marku2009 1 year ago
@mokaey
'Black Americans' you mean. You don't see people calling their 'blackberries' AFRICAN AMERICANBERRIES now do you?
IauthenticI 1 year ago
@mokaey I shure as fuck dont
coulditbekronau 1 year ago
@mokaey, why? it wasn't a depression for us. We were already dirt poor. I've never heard anyone in my family say that the depression affected our people greatly. Its just like today; I'm too poor to be affected by this "recession. I've never been so thankful to be a musician.
ThatsABiggon 1 year ago
Whta they ther for in prison , stealing chickens....
judge6754 1 year ago 2
that's music!
Musikk257 1 year ago
What was the percentage of false imprisonment of blacks in Texas during this time?
TheGreatCorneliuski 1 year ago 2
@TheGreatCorneliuski
where do you mean?
mokaey 1 year ago
Right there 1:01 on your video photo
All those lined up for work on the rail road
Year 1933
and vs.2000
TheGreatCorneliuski 1 year ago
@TheGreatCorneliuski
i dont know i dont think they researched it at that time.
maybe because it was very many people that got a false sentence.
ive been reading though big ass book about that subject in the past week.
but i didnt find anything.
it was the prison records and police chargings from the state of texas.
it was very many anon people you got locked up.
it was mostly just small sentences like over night stuff.
dont ask where i got the recordes!
ps. they where very hard to find and read
mokaey 1 year ago
Our car is called Black Betty! And she's a beaut! :)
axiserve 1 year ago
james baker and gang, good old times when all are simple
mellisos2m 1 year ago 2
very wrong
mokaey 1 year ago
wtf its no where near black betty by ram jam. this is a folk song and it aint even the original talked about black betty being a hooker and the kid robbing a bank locked in prison!
blackrowstones 1 year ago
i agree there is only very scetchy info on this subject.
mokaey 1 year ago
@blackrowstones Its not even folk...but okay haha
oldschoolhero66 1 year ago
@blackrowstones this is the original. it was an african american blues spirital written in the early 1930's. first recording was in 1933. this is that original recording. ram jam's cover was in the 70s...
bucketfaced 1 year ago
i was talking about this is not the original this is a remake of the spiritual the original was talking about black bettys child going to jail.lead belly's version was about having sex with her and having a child that turned out to not his.ram jam version was about having the hots for betty and she had children that were not hers.thus commemorating the Leadbelly version.everyone keeps sayen they ripped it off!they all go together.
blackrowstones 1 year ago
The FIRST Black Betty was by blues legend Leadbelly.
TheLonghornFan1 1 year ago
Ram Jam really made this song so much better ! Doesn't everybody agree ?
HellWolfsSwankyGrave 1 year ago
nope
mokaey 1 year ago
I disagree
ozikool 1 year ago
they sing amber lambs
genexstyle 1 year ago
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beasontech 1 year ago
@beasontech lmao my p got stiff and became a b if you know what i say's sir.
genexstyle 1 year ago
I guess some people don't iknow thier history
surveyor5050 1 year ago 2
the cover is so anoying
MrSunshine124 1 year ago
which cover?
mokaey 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
this is bullshit no nigger came up with this song!!!
JTKkicker 1 year ago
"Black Betty" was the name that prisoners gave the wagon or truck they were transported in from the prison to the job site and back. She is an empty promise of cool rest and comfort actually serving to prolong suffering and misery. Typically a windowless black box that would soak up the brutal heat of the Southern sun all day long, so that by the end of the day the only shade waiting for them was hotter than an oven.
BeerHeart 1 year ago
Very astute.
Kyithios 1 year ago
thank you for the info but (PLEASE) STOP SENDING ME BULLSHIT INFO LIKE THIS!!!!!!!
IVE HEARD THAT SAME STORY LIKE 600 TIMES JUST IN A DIFFERENT FORM!!!!!!
mokaey 1 year ago
fuck yeh awesome!!!!!
harrowblue 1 year ago
Damn it you are right...! that's the real one!!
WwWatchman 1 year ago
it is looks like the Brazilian Macumba!!!
AlmightyBrazil 1 year ago
it's amazing to think that these chain gang songs are the roots of the blues. it's incredible how music can evolve and change.
scampbell04 1 year ago 2
asians were into wood percussion and metal symbols and possibly string instruments as well. Europeans and Middle easterners created brass instruments, Drums with animal skins were invented by different tribes such as native americans, afrians and even western european tribes. Then you take African slave music who incorporated irish celtic and french style music and you form jazz and rock. "Rock and Roll" was a black term similar to "Rolling in the hay" or "Making whoopie"
bluevidcam 1 year ago 3
What are these guys doing standing around? We're not feeding you to stand around, get to work!
Eddiefry 1 year ago
@Eddiefry go work youreself !
29495771 1 year ago
lol
noxkidxxx 1 year ago
Mokaey, I got ya missing lyric for you. He says"Well I come from Corsicana/ and Im goin to Texarkana" In other words... he's bout to make a run for it
SuperSlimm 1 year ago
hmmmm il check it out.
thank you
mokaey 1 year ago
this is simply... thats just it i cant find the words to describe this piece of art...
omfgitsciso 1 year ago
A musician myself I LOVE the orginal versions of various songs (all styles) (going through and early 1910/20s bluegrass phase at the moment) this is brilliant!!!! Thank you for posting this!!!! Question...Where did you find this historical piece of music??
King1Seal 1 year ago
Theres something eerie about this recording.
Dylan1191698 1 year ago