Ram Jam

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Ram Jam were an American 1970s rock band, best known for their 1977 Top 20 hit “Black Betty” (a cover of an old Leadbelly tune).

The band members were Bill Bartlett (guitar), Pete Charles (drums), Myke Scavone (lead singer), and Howie Arthur Blauvett (bass). Jimmy Santoro, who toured with the band in support of their debut album joined on guitar for the follow-up album. Bill Bartlett was formerly lead guitarist for bubblegum group The Lemon Pipers, while Blauvett played with Billy Joel in two bands, The Hassles and El Primo.

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Top Tracks

1	Black Betty full track	1,911
2	Right on the money full track	29
3	Let It All Out full track	25
4	Hey Boogie Woman full track	24
5	Keep your hands on the wheel full track	23
6	High Steppin' full track	17
6	404 full track	17
6	Overloaded full track	17
9	Too bad on your birthday full track	15
10	Gone wild full track	13
11	Hurricane ride full track	8
11	Ram Jam - Black Betty	8
11	Just like me full track	8
11	Saturday night full track	8
11	Pretty poison full track	8

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Kokosnusskopf wrote:
November 2008

ich sach nur bester song aus blow.

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Rockarolla1 wrote:
November 2008

oo black betty black betty .. :D awesome song

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SmartBartje wrote:
October 2008

Black Betty is so freakin awesome lol

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DR-EVILS wrote:
September 2008

ROCK ON BLACK BETTY!!!! nice....

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pitting1957 wrote:
August 2008

Black Betty war für mich der größte Hit von Ram Jam. Einfach nur Geil, aber man muß ihn sehr Laut hören dann kommt er richtig rüber.

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UncleStupid86 wrote:
July 2008

Needs to be downloadable content on Rock Band!

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[deleted-user] wrote:
June 2008

Regarding wrong group tagging: Many people have tagged 'Black Betty' as Nazareth.
Botoft wrote:
June 2008

Black Betty is one of my favourite songs.

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Flishli wrote:
June 2008

Of course a one hit wonder. But they have other good songs too.

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UnaLaguna wrote:
May 2008

315,720 of 358,283 plays are Black Betty. One-hit wonder?

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AlexboyCO wrote:
April 2008

Blues Rock the old way. But still it works.Much fun with that Betty.;D

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tommygundrums wrote:
April 2008

I like how they seem to be a one-hit wonder with last.fm

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paranoidchileno wrote:
April 2008

ja, yo tenia a esta banda como ram jam world en mi pc, y en el last me aparecia una banda japonesa, na k ver la cosa xd

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Hija_de_la_Luna wrote:
March 2008

Whoooaaaa, Black Betty, Bam-A-Lam, Whooaaa, Black Betty, Bam-A-Lam

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pocketFighter wrote:
March 2008

black BERRY? jajaajaj wtf...

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Anybodyy wrote:
January 2008

Nai nai nai ^^

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S9DallasOz wrote:
November 2007

It's hard to convince some people that this isn't Lynyrd Skynyrd...damn you Limewire.

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[deleted-user] wrote:
October 2007

WHOAAA black betty
ChrillDeVille wrote:
September 2007

HEhe 1,391 plays on Black Betty and 34 on the second most played last week

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kafamgirsin wrote:
August 2007

black berry? ahahaha

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