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The genesis of the Blues Brothers was a January 17, 1976, Saturday Night Live sketch. In it, " Howard Shore and his All-Bee Band" play the Slim Harpo song " I'm a King Bee ", with Belushi singing and Aykroyd playing harmonica , dressed in the bee costumes they wore for " The Killer Bees " sketches. [ 1 ]
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. [4] It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC's variety series Saturday Night Live.
Elwood Blues of The Blues Brothers (1976–78) Floyd Hunger, from The Mall sketches; Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute; George, one of the cooks at Olympia Cafe; Irwin Mainway from Consumer Probe and other sketches (1976–) Jack Neehauser from St. Mickey's Knights of Columbus (1978) Jimmy Carter (1977–79) Jimmy Joe Red Sky, from Nick The Lounge ...
“Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude” premieres exclusively on Audible on July 25, nearly 50 years after the duo’s earliest appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in 1976. Narrated by ...
The Blues Brothers — Aykroyd's Elwood and Belushi's “Joliet” Jake — wore black suits and black string ties inspired by comedian Lenny Bruce and snap-brim fedora hats and shades borrowed ...
After a brief tour, Murph was sent to prison with the rest of the Blues Brothers Band. When the real-life Blues Brothers toured in 1980 to promote the film, Dunne performed live with the band along with Shaffer. His work can be heard on their 1980 live album, Made in America. [citation needed]
In what is perhaps the most famous sequence in the 1980 action-comedy, Jake and Elwood Blues speed through the multilevel streets of downtown Chicago in a 1974 black-and-white Dodge Monaco sedan ...
With The Blues Brothers. Briefcase Full of Blues (Atlantic, 1978) The Blues Brothers (Atlantic, 1980) Made in America (Atlantic, 1981) Blues Brothers 2000 (Uptown/Universal, 1999) With Gil Evans. The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (RCA, 1974) There Comes a Time (RCA, 1976) Live at Sweet Basil (King/Electric Bird, 1985)