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  • The Story of Black Betty by Ram Jam

    01/15/2022 7:41:57 PM PST · by FLNittany · 46 replies
    yousetube ^ | 70's | Ram Jam
    Here is the definitive video of this song. It was shot on LI in a back yard. Chicks, Harleys, big drum kits. Doesn't get much better than this: Black Betty in the back yard
  • UNH officials scrap 'Black Betty'

    02/12/2006 6:43:53 PM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 49 replies · 2,371+ views
    AP ^ | February 12, 2006
    DURHAM - "Black Betty," a ’70s rock song used to rally fans at University of New Hampshire hockey games for perhaps a decade, is no more. Athletics director Marty Scarano told the campus newspaper The New Hampshire that the rollicking, 1977 song by the band Ram Jam was banned because it is "theoretically racist." The NAACP deemed the Ram Jam version of the old song offensive to black women three decades ago, and UNH has received intermittent complaints about it for years, the Concord Monitor reported Saturday.