My son and I are trying to find the official title and group who sings the song with the lyrics..."Oh black sally...Oh black sally." It is a rock group and a great song. Would love to get it if we could find out the real name and the artist. Thanks!!
2006-06-19 08:16:18 · 9 answers · asked by Andrea B 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
"Black Betty," originally written and recorded in 1935 by Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter was covered in a rockin' electrified version by RAM JAM.
I got Ram Jam's "Golden Classics" release on CD and I love it. The entire album is awesome. A very underrated band.
Currently, Amazon.com has the 20 track CD "The Very Best of Ram Jam" starting at $7.19, second hand. Well worth it.
Compliment your son on his taste for me.
2006-06-19 08:36:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is Black Betty
and Ram Jam sings it
2006-06-19 08:21:12 · answer #2 · answered by Stl5152733 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may be asking about a song that came out in the 70s called "Black Betty". Here are the lyrics:
Black Betty
By: Ram Jam
(Huddie Ledbetter)
1977
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
ANDY RATING:
Bubblegum's last gasp was this heavy-medal blues cover of an old Leadbelly song. It was big when it came out and, strangely, it never attained the lasting anthem appeal of a Rock And Roll Part 2 by Gary Glitter or We Are The Champions by Queen.
NOTES:
. . . lead guitarist Bill Bartlett performed the same duties for The Lemon Pipers . . . produced by Jeff Katz and Jerry Kasenetz . . . other than these two gum connections, why is this song considered Bubblegum? The Indian drum beat and the gong, silly . . . the NAACP and other groups called for a boycott of the song . . . according to Bartlett in Wayne Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, "[They say that] 'Black Betty' is considered an insult to black womanhood, but that's a load of hogwash. Leadbelly [Huddie Ledbetter] was black, and he wrote all the lyrics. No blacks that I've talked to find the song offensive" . . .
2006-06-19 08:22:45 · answer #3 · answered by michael s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure you mean "Black Betty" by Ram Jam.
2006-06-19 08:21:44 · answer #4 · answered by deathbywedgie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
does it start off like this and if it dosent sorry i searched really hard to find it
My name it is Joe Bowers;
I have a brother Ike.
I came from old Missoura,
All the way from Pike.
I used to know a girl there;
Her name was Sally Black.
I asked her if she'd marry me;
She said it was a whack.
She said to me, "Joe Bowers.
Before we hitch for life,
You'd
2006-06-19 08:24:47 · answer #5 · answered by Madeline Cruz' 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gone Daddy Gone from the Violent Femmes? Just a guess here
2016-05-20 02:46:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean "Black Water" by the Doobie Brothers?
Well, I built me a raft and shes ready for floatin
Ol mississippi, shes callin my name
Catfish are jumpin
That paddle wheel thumpin
Black water keeps rollin on past just the same
Old black water, keep on rollin
Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me
Old black water, keep on rollin
Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me
Old black water, keep on rollin
Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me
Yeah, keep on shinin your light
Gonna make everything, pretty mama
Gonna make everything all right
And I aint got no worries
cause I aint in no hurry at all
Well, if it rains, I dont care
Dont make no difference to me
Just take that street car thats goin up town
Yeah, Id like to hear some funky dixieland
And dance a honky tonk
And Ill be buyin evrybody drinks all roun
Old black water, keep on rollin
Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me
Old black water, keep on rollin
Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me
Old black water, keep on rollin
Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me
Yeah, keep on shinin your light
Gonna make everything, pretty mama
Gonna make everything all right
And I aint got no worries
cause I aint in no hurry at all
Id like to hear some funky dixieland
Pretty mama come and take me by the hand
By the hand, take me by the hand pretty mama
Come and dance with your daddy all night long
I want to honky tonk, honky tonk, honky tonk
With you all night long
2006-06-19 08:22:35 · answer #7 · answered by answer gal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure it's not Black Betty?
2006-06-19 08:20:23 · answer #8 · answered by melissa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could this be it?
Black Betty
By: Ram Jam
(Huddie Ledbetter)
1977
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
2006-06-19 08:29:31 · answer #9 · answered by capnbeatty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋