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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 open the show with "Soul Man", and perform a medley of "Got Everything I Need, Almost" and "'B' Movie Box Car Blues". [1] Special Guest: Father Guido Sarducci; Writers Al Franken, Tom Davis, Alan Zweibel, Brian Doyle-Murray, and future cast member Harry Shearer appear in the Beach Blanket sketch. Mr. Bill Goes Fishing.
In 1990, Lorne Michaels oversaw the writing of a sketch anthology feature film titled The Saturday Night Live Movie with many of the show's then-current writing staff, including Al Franken, Tom Davis, Greg Daniels, Jim Downey, Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, and George Meyer, contributing. The screenplay only got as far as a Revised First Draft ...
NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ premiered on Oct. 11, 1975. ... After SNL, Aykroyd reprised his most popular characters in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers and in 1993’s Coneheads, ...
Aykroyd was part of the blues and soul band The Blues Brothers with his “Saturday Night Live” co-star John Belushi. He also co-wrote and starred as Dr. Raymond Stantz in “Ghostbusters” and ...
Following the success of the Blues Brothers on Saturday Night Live, Belushi and Aykroyd, with the help of pianist-arranger Paul Shaffer, assembled studio talent forming a proper band. Saturday Night Live saxophonist "Blue" Lou Marini and trombonist-saxophonist Tom Malone, who had previously played in Blood, Sweat & Tears were there.
“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.
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.