Ram Jam was an American 1970s rock band, best known for their 1977 hit single, "Black Betty".
The band members were Bill Bartlett (guitar), Pete Charles (drums), Myke Scavone (lead singer), and Howie Arthur Blauvelt (bass). Also, Jimmy Santoro, who toured with the band in support of their debut album, joined on guitar for the follow-up album. Bartlett was formerly lead guitarist for bubblegum group The Lemon Pipers, while Blauvelt played with Bil...
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Ram Jam was an American 1970s rock band, best known for their 1977 hit single, "Black Betty".
The band members were Bill Bartlett (guitar), Pete Charles (drums), Myke Scavone (lead singer), and Howie Arthur Blauvelt (bass). Also, Jimmy Santoro, who toured with the band in support of their debut album, joined on guitar for the follow-up album. Bartlett was formerly lead guitarist for bubblegum group The Lemon Pipers, while Blauvelt played with Billy Joel in two bands, The Hassles and El Primo.
Bill Bartlett went on from the Lemon Pipers to form a group called Starstruck--originally including Steve Walmsley (bass) and Bob Nave (organ) from the Lemon Pipers--later replacing Walmsley with David Goldflies (who later played for years with Dickie Betts and Great Southern, and the Allman Brothers). While in Starstruck, Bartlett took Leadbelly's 59 second long "Black Betty," wrote music for it and arranged it and recorded and released it on the group's own TruckStar label. Black Betty became a...
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