Ram Jam was a legendary blues-rock and hard rock band from the 70's, whose members included a former Lemon Pipers member, Bill Bartlett.
On the American East Coast, Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz, the masters of bubblegum 60's and heads of Buddah Records, produced in Epic the debut album of hard and blues-rock eponymous Ram Jam (1977), which had little to do with their raids on the previous decade with Ohio Express or the Lemon Pipers themselves. On the album was the danceable and well-known single Black Betty, a song based on a Leadbelly theme that brought a queue, which came as a pearl to the Ram Jams, since several organizations wanted to remove the single from the album claiming that its text was an insult to black women.
The point is that Black Betty would become a worldwide hit of biblical proportions.
Some time later, Tom Jones, one of the great versioners of the story together with Joe Cocker, included the song in his “Reloaded”, taking it to the list of half the world. A year later the Ram Jams released Portrait of the artist as a young ram (1978), another collection of catchy guitar-exploding hard rock tracks, including “Please Please (Please me)”, “Gone Wild”, “Saturday night ”Or the ballad“ Turnpike ”. After the album and without finding a successful single like Black Betty in it, the group ended up separating.
On the American East Coast, Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz, the masters of bubblegum 60's and heads of Buddah Records, produced in Epic the debut album of hard and blues-rock eponymous Ram Jam (1977), which had little to do with their raids on the previous decade with Ohio Express or the Lemon Pipers themselves. On the album was the danceable and well-known single Black Betty, a song based on a Leadbelly theme that brought a queue, which came as a pearl to the Ram Jams, since several organizations wanted to remove the single from the album claiming that its text was an insult to black women.
The point is that Black Betty would become a worldwide hit of biblical proportions.
Some time later, Tom Jones, one of the great versioners of the story together with Joe Cocker, included the song in his “Reloaded”, taking it to the list of half the world. A year later the Ram Jams released Portrait of the artist as a young ram (1978), another collection of catchy guitar-exploding hard rock tracks, including “Please Please (Please me)”, “Gone Wild”, “Saturday night ”Or the ballad“ Turnpike ”. After the album and without finding a successful single like Black Betty in it, the group ended up separating.
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