A VERY famous pin-up girl in the 50's that is an icon still today for the "Suicide Girls" along with most greaser and gear head junkies.
There are many theories but I have heard that a "Black Betty" was a flint-lock musket with a black painted stock. In the song "bam-ba-lam" refers to the sound of the gunfire. And her child is kills...
Yes. She died in LA at 85 years of age.
Bettie page .. died dec. 11th 2008
1977