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Jun 20, 1980 · Action Adventure Comedy. Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago. Director. John Landis. Writers.
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The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. 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.
- $115.2 million
- June 20, 1980
- $27.5 million
- Robert K. Weiss
- The Blues Brothers Band Musicians Played Themselves In The Movie. When Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi began taking their Blues Brothers personas more seriously, they rounded up some of the genre's finest musicians (including guitarist Steve Cropper and saxophonist "Blue Lou" Marini) to tour with them.
- Aretha Franklin Had Trouble Lip-Synching Her Blues Brothers Number. Appearing in the film as highly fictionalized versions of themselves were various music legends, including the late Aretha Franklin, to whom The Blues Brothers director John Landis wrote a tribute for The Hollywood Reporter, mentioning her only on set issue was lip-synching her performance of "Think."
- Dancers For Ray Charles’ Blues Brothers Number Were Random Bystanders. Another legendary The Blues Brothers appearance is that of Ray Charles as a music shop owner who convinces Jake and Elwood to buy his keyboard by playing a rendition of "Shake a Tail Feather" on it so mean it gets strangers dancing outside.
- Cab Calloway Wanted To Perform His Recently Cut Disco Version Of Minnie The Moocher. Probably my personal favorite musical performance in The Blues Brothers is by Cab Calloway, who stalls the crowd at the Hollywood Palladium before Jake and Elwood arrive with a rendition of his signature hit "Minnie the Moocher" that sounds just like it did in 1931.
The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who met and began collaborating as original cast members of Saturday Night Live.
- 1978–1982, 1988-present
- Calumet City, Illinois, U.S.
Apr 5, 2024 · Daniel de Visé, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic.”
- Pete Zimmerman
Jul 4, 2023 · What is the name of that skit? The Blues Brothers. An untypical start. Comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi were the two men behind The Blues Brothers. Aykroyd’s love of the blues genre was first sparked in his hometown of Ottawa, Canada.
Jun 20, 2020 · The Blues Brothers is a comedy classic today, but not everyone was a fan upon its initial release. Newsweek described it as “desperately unfunny.”
