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Spiderbait - ' Black Betty '

submitted by michie

1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago

"Black Betty" 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; in this case an 18th century marching cadence about a flint-lock rifle.

for more see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Betty

and a familiar version here on the sift by Ram Jam in 1977

http://www.videosift.com/?domains=www.videosift.com&search=ram+jam

9 Comments

mlx

I had no idea about the history of the song, just knew the '77 version...and loved it.

Excellent sift, Michie!

I would love to see a video that showed a few of the more notable cover versions - because there are many and this one isn't particularly outstanding.

You know I bet that serial abuser of cover songs, Robbie Williams has done a version. That guy is awful.

Even Tom Jones has done a cover;

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hcCjuUJgQj8

*downunder

Adding video to channels (Downunder) - requested by maatc.

*dead

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by Stingray.

rasch187 has fixed this video's dead embed code - no Power Points awarded because rasch187's points are already fully charged.

Ahh, that was weird. I was trying to fix this and suddenly it disappeared from the sift. Oh well.

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