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Belushi in House of Blues in Houston, 2008. In 2003, Belushi and Dan Aykroyd released the album Have Love, Will Travel, and participated in an accompanying tour. The concert was made available on video on demand by Bob Gold & Associates. [8] [9] He also performs at various venues nationwide as Zee Blues in an updated version of The Blues Brothers.
The Toronto-based Downchild Blues Band, co-founded in 1969 by two brothers, Donnie and Richard "Hock" Walsh, served as an inspiration for the two Blues Brothers characters. Aykroyd modeled Elwood Blues in part on Donnie Walsh, a harmonica player and guitarist, while Belushi's Jake Blues character was modeled after Hock Walsh, Downchild's lead ...
Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, [4] to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children.
She impacted my life in so many. Retired actress Dalyce Curry has died in the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires. She was 95. ... The Blues Brothers. But to Curry’s family, she was best known as Momma D.
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 ...
John Adam Belushi (/ b ə ˈ l uː ʃ i /; January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor and musician.He was one of seven Saturday Night Live cast members of the first season. [1]
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 ...
The second, The Blues Brothers (1980), which he co-wrote with director John Landis, was a massive hit. The third, Neighbors (1981) had mixed critical reaction, but was another box-office hit. One of his best-received performances was as a blueblood-turned-wretch in the 1983 comedy Trading Places , in which he co-starred with fellow SNL alumnus ...