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"Flip, Flop and Fly" has an arrangement similar to Big Joe Turner's 1954 number 1 R&B chart hit "Shake, Rattle and Roll". [2]Music critic Cub Koda suggests that "leftover verses [from the 'Shake, Rattle and Roll' recording session] were then recycled into Turner's follow-up hit, 'Flip, Flop and Fly. ' " [3] Both are up-tempo twelve-bar blues with a strong backbeat.
The band's international fame is partially due to three of its songs, the originals "I've Got Everything I Need (Almost)" and "Shot Gun Blues", and its adaptation of "Flip, Flop and Fly", all from its 1973 album, Straight Up, being featured on the first Blues Brothers album, Briefcase Full of Blues (1978). [2] "Flip, Flop and Fly" has been ...
The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan ... co-written by Donnie and Hock Walsh, and "Flip, Flop and Fly", ...
Best of the Blues Brothers is the fourth and final Blues Brothers album released before John Belushi's death in 1982. ... "Flip, Flop & Fly" (Calhoun, Turner) – 3:39;
Among those appearing at the benefit were Big Daddy G, Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar, [10] the Downchild Blues Band and former Downchild vocalist Tony Flaim. [11] The evening ended with a group rendition of Hock's signature song, "Flip, Flop and Fly". [8]
A never-before-heard 1979 interview John Belushi gave to music critic Steve Bloom of the Soho Weekly News has been released for the first time as part of the Audible audio documentary “Blues ...
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 ...
Super Black Blues, Volume II (BluesTime/Flying Dutchman, 1970) with Leon Thomas, T-Bone Walker, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson; Turns On the Blues (Kent, 1970) Texas Style (Black and Blue, 1971) 1972 - Flip, Flop & Fly (Pablo, 1989) with Count Basie & His Orchestra; 1973 - Boss Man of the Blues (LMI Records, 1973) 1973 - The Bosses (Pablo, 1974) with ...