Talk:Black Betty

message: Please Google ZZ Top and Black Betty, and see on their official website.......the article incorrectly said that ZZ Top never recorded this song.  THEY RECORDED THE MOST POPULAR VERSION of this song, by FAR.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.202.11.239 (talk) 23:02, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: ZZ Top

message: Does black betty have any drug connotations? Heroin, Hash, etc, something blackish?
This was the first thing that came to my mind when thinking about the meaning of the song and I've also heard several other people talk about the song assuming that it was referring to black tar heroine.  I came here to check it out and thought it was strange there was no reference to drugs at all in the wiki article. Cutchins (talk) 23:44, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Drugs

message: Wasn't 'black betty' also covered by Lynard Skynard?
::Yeah I'm pretty sure it was covered by Lynard Skynard! Insaneassassin247 23:44, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]

message: I seem to remember them doing it as well, with strobe lights.  Does anyone have a referrence? Pustelnik 20:33, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 10,000 Maniacs

message: Is there an authoritative reference for Leadbelly writing this? The AMG reference says "Leadbelly/Traditional" which is not reflected in the article. The article says it is a work song which suggests it was trad. The fact that the earliest recording was not by Leadbelly also casts a little doubt on his writing it. I can't help feeling that its a trad song that Leadbelly perhaps modified. Nurg 06:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It does explain it. Kellymoat (talk) 18:13, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Who wrote this song?

message: The term "black betty" has evolved into a derogatory phrase that degrades and is offensive towards black females. Not the kind of thing you want in an article uncited. Λυδαcιτγ 04:30, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Uncited sentence moved from main article

message: Everybody: it's "Lead Belly", not "Leadbelly". See the discussion. -- Face 09:33, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: It's Lead Belly

message: I added the tag to the "in the media" list for several reasons:
* Some items in the list could possibly be duplicated on the "Selected list of recorded versions" list, or vice versa. 
* For the Movies and Television lists, I think each item needs more information to make it useful (like scene it appeared in, who was performing it, and so on). 
What if someone came to this article hoping to identify some media production where the only thing they know is that "Black Betty was on it, I think..." So they come here trying to figure our what movie or music video or show or whatever they might have possibly heard this song on. It's a pretty common use of Wikipedia, I'd think.
Also, unrelated to the lists... is it normal for "recorded by" and "performed by" in the box at the top of a folk song article to have so many different artists? It's not even the complete list.
Katyism (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 13:34, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List problems, etc.

message: It would seem that if someone wants to get 'into' the song, the hard rock versions are readily available on youtube.
The Ram Jam version shown in the outside yard is a clean, hi quality vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo
Other bands take Ram Jam's, not whatever previous delta blues or folk version as the starter.
If anyone remembers Pat Travers, he has a clean straight-ahead classic rock version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gstmUkpoDak
And there's a pretty clean version of the Spiderbait 'deuce coupe' video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWBi2jg7SiU
:: Spiderbait video, that Youtube link is dead to me. This links works and seems to be official https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU1VfYYKMDk and it includes footage from the film Without a Paddle. -- 109.77.220.254 (talk) 22:35, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Youtube links? 

message: I removed the reference to the 2000 film Gone In 60 Seconds. The song in the opening titles of the film is "Flower" by Moby. The song does not even reference nor sample "Black Betty". Joshuah Hounshell (talk) 16:41, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gone In 60 Seconds 

message: I removed the following paragraph as it is "original research", but I'm including it here for future reference.----Design (talk) 09:40, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed original research 

message: Would someone please source a  public domain image of one or both of the covers of the original Lead Belly album Negro Sinful Songs and add it to this article?Design (talk) 08:34, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead Belly album cover

message: A while ago, I made an edit to the main article correcting the suspected error that Tom Jones did a rock music version of the song. But my edit was reverted soon after. Tom Jones is not rock music, so I think it is safe to say that he didn't do a rock version of the song. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but if I don't receive an adequate response within a few days or so, I will remove that word once again from the intro. Classicalfan626 (talk) 13:20, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: in the context of this article referring to "Black Betty"'s folk song/work song roots, perhaps you would be happy to replace "rock" with "rock/pop" or "rock and pop", since TomJones is predominantly a pop singer. I will say however that Jones has done many rock songs including Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House" and his version of "Black Betty" has a rock drum beat, so calling it a rock version is valid in my opinion.----Design (talk) 09:52, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, OK. I get it. Classicalfan626 (talk) 12:38, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Rock" version by Tom Jones?