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===Post-hits=== In the 1990s, both studio releases by Ram Jam were packaged together as a German import record entitled ''[[The Very Best of Ram Jam]]''.<ref name=auto1>{{cite web|title=Rasputin Music & DVDs-Music: Ram Jam (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ram)|work=Rasputin Music (online catalogue)|url=http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?prodid=RCDY12.2&PersonID=P%20%20%20%2020054&p_id=P++++20054&st=Music|access-date=2019-12-17}}{{dead link|date=December 2019}}</ref><ref name=auto>{{cite web|title=Rasputin Music & DVDs-Music: Ram Jam (The Very Best of Ram Jam)|work=(online catalogue)|url=http://www.thestore24.com/Music/album.aspx?prodid=EPCE467506.2|access-date=2009-02-27}}</ref> The cover of the album features the same artwork as the self-titled debut album, and the track list is simply the ten titles from ''Ram Jam'' followed by the ten titles from ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ram''. While the original ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ram'' started with the songs "Gone Wild" and "Pretty Poison", these two were moved to the end of ''The Very Best of Ram Jam''.<ref name=auto1/><ref name=auto/> In 1991, producers Kasenetz and Katz released a [[hip-house]] single called "We Rock the Mansion" as Ram Jam, which failed to chart. In 1994, they released an album called ''Ram Jam'' in France with a group of session musicians fronted by vocalist Don Chaffin, which failed to chart as well. Two singles were released from the album, "Ram Jam, Thank You Mam" (under which title the album was reissued in Germany in 1995) and "Black Betty '95", a cover of the 1990 "Rough 'n Ready" remix of the original Ram Jam song, both of which didn't chart. A 12" single of "Ram Jam, Thank You Mam" was also released in 1994, featuring a 7-minute rearrangement of the song. A [[remix]] of "Black Betty" by [[Ben Liebrand]] reached number 13 in the [[UK Singles Chart]] in 1990.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book|first=David|last=Roberts|year=2006|title=British Hit Singles & Albums|edition=19th|publisher=Guinness World Records Limited|location=London|isbn=1-904994-10-5|page=449}}</ref> Cover versions of the song also appear on the 2002 album ''[[Mr. Jones (Tom Jones album)|Mr. Jones]]'' by [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] and on the 2004 album ''[[Tonight Alright]]'' by Australian rock band [[Spiderbait]]. Bill Bartlett still plays guitar, but in the early 1990s transformed himself into a [[boogie-woogie]] [[piano]] player.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} He also plays [[banjo]], [[harmonica]], and has written dozens of songs. Santoro still plays professionally in various bands in New York, and teaches music at an elementary school on Long Island. Scavone, who now resides in New Jersey, after many years detached from the music industry, recorded an album of 12 songs, both originals and [[cover version]]s with his former teenage garage rock band called [[The Doughboys (New Jersey band)|the Doughboys]]. It was featured at the 40th Reunion of [[John Zacherle]]'s Disc-O-Teen in 2004, which coincided with Zacherle's 84th birthday. The album, entitled ''Is It Now'', included liner notes by John Hawkins, the original keyboard and piano player for [[the Nashville Teens]]. Howie Blauvelt died in 1993 at age 44, and Pete Charles (full name Peter Charles Picardio) died in 2002 at age 49 from unknown causes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/deadrock.html|title=The Dead Rock Stars Club|website=Thedeadrockstarsclub.com|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref> Scavone continues to write and record original music with the Doughboys. In 2015, Scavone was recruited to play harmonica, percussion and backing vocals with his longtime heroes, [[the Yardbirds]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Yardbirds.US: Home|url=http://yardbirds.us/|website=Yardbirds.us|access-date=2017-09-20}}</ref>
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