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THE BLUES BROTHERS
1978 - Briefcase Full Of Blues.
1980 - The Blues Brothers.
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November 28, 1978 - 2023: 45 years of: Briefcase Full Of Blues.

Before the godly mission.

From an NBC Saturday Night Live sketch, to actual on the road sex, drugs and rocknroll fun. Here's the debut-LP from the improbable adventure of TV-comedians turned into Holy rebels ...THE BLUES BROTHERS !

Performing hot rhymnblues cut in the veins of Floyd Dixon's "Hey Bartender", Junior Wells's "Messin' With The Kid" and Sam & Dave's slick "Soul Man". Both Big Joe Turner's "Flip, Flop & Fly" and Downchild Blues Band's "(I Got Everything I Need) Almost" get's a B12-shot ...all sandwiched between Otis Redding's instant crowd-mover: the ultimate bass-line of "I Can't Turn You Loose".

This lovely carnage was recorded live in L.A. all under the musical eagle-eye of Paul Schaffer, the motley crew then ravaged America with pure blues-bar energy.

RIAA-certified 2x Platinum, the vibe and groove was a killer cool, during the disco takeover of the turn of the decade. Our strapping young lads are set and would receive their divine commands and change the course of pop-culture with 1980's full-length God given epic movie: The Blues Brothers.

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Briefcase Full Of Blues = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMpVyVeomUE&list=OLAK5uy_l1OYCh1y0iEV2dfBOMRFJTqbUBIvNSMJs
Live in San Francisco in 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4OMWW25Fzc

June 20, 1980 - 2025: 45 years of: The Blues Brothers.

They are on a mission from God.

When real-life friendship turns into an immortal legacy. SNL cast-made THE BLUES BROTHERS band, is the rhythm & blues piledriver the late 70s desperately needed to keep the beat in check. Not only a made-for-TV sketch, but a real touring rock-band ...that happened to make a feature film. A now full 360° franchise, the 1980 movie spawned a cult-status following, with LPs, merchandising, an eventual sequel and later became the groundwork for the House Of Blues club-house chain.

"The Lord works in mysterious ways." John "Jake" Belushi and buddy Dan "Elwood" Aykroyd are the brothers that reunites after Jake's three-year penitentiary obligations. Reforming the band to gather money to save their native Calumet City orphanage, they are now on a mission from God. Yet their old hooligan-ways rapidly catches-up and the mob is always a step behind their every move. One by one the band is put back on track and gigs around, until the Illinois State Troopers crashes the final jam.

"They broke my watch !" One gravity defying cast-member is made of the strongest-alloy, the electrified 1974 black and white Dodge Monaco Police Pack, the: Bluesmobile. When you thought Detroit's best 7.2L 440 cubic-inch V8-machinery couldn't get tougher and louder, watch in awe as this God-sent sedan: jump bridges, wrecks a shopping-mall, stomp Nazis and eludes the entire Chicago Police Department. Behind the wheel, the tall man in black with the sunglasses, the ultimate motorhead: Elwood ...the sole reason this writer is a cop-car enthusiast.

Cinematography's best - scene - ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o

This bigger than life movie fits into many categories: music, humor and religion ? …well maybe not per say, but if the holy divine musical-lineup of: James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Cab Calloway doesn't make you groove, sadly nothing will !

"Do you see the light ?" Written by Aykroyd and produced by John Landis, the latter would go on to produce the world's biggest music-video of all-time: Michael Jackson's Thriller. Production-wise hundreds of mangled squad-cars and gazillions of dollars in both City and State property-damage pilled-up ...all of this insanity because of a single yellow-light passage. Yet through chaos and destruction, it did put good ol' Chicago back on the map.

"Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers, has been approved." In 1982, Belushi aged 33, was found dead of an overdose at L.A.'s Chateau Marmont. At the time, Aykroyd with Belushi in mind, was in writing-mode for what did become his other signature: 1984's super-natural Ghostbusters. Elwood Blues would much later be released from prison and tag along a new gang, on 1998's Blues Brother 2000.

RIP John Belushi AKA Jake (1949-1982)
RIP Cab Calloway AKA Curtis (1907-1994)
RIP John Candy AKA Burton Mercer (1950-1994)
RIP Kathleen Freeman AKA the penguin (1919-2001)
RIP John Lee Hooker (1912-2001)
RIP Jeff Morris AKA Bob (1934-2004)
RIP Ray Charles (1930-2004)
RIP James Brown AKA Reverend Cleophus (1933-2006)
RIP Henry Gibson AKA Head Nazi (1935-2009)
RIP Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin (1943-2011)
RIP Charles Napier AKA Tucker McElroy (1936-2011)
RIP Donald "Duck" Dunn (1941-2012)
RIP Carrie Fisher AKA mystery woman (1956-2016)
RIP Matt "Guitar" Murphy (1929-2018)
RIP Aretha Franklin AKA Mrs. Murphy(1942-2018)
RIP Paul Reubens AKA sommelier (1952-2023)
RIP Steve Lawrence AKA Maury Sline (1935-2024)

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James Brown's music scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0TEagjwEbQ
John Lee Hooker's music scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUyFrHERpU
Aretha Franklin's music scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY66elCQkYk
Ray Charles's music scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbrIrFxas0
Cab Calloway's music scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=250MMq0fTrU
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The Blue Brothers = movie-trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCR4c1zPyk
The Blue Brothers = movie soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5xexv-dMrM&list=PL4sfVCWR8nGJ0iZTaheuqSoZ2JC16JEBp
Interview in 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAMmqiczyQE
Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhBBJCvJXPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqHHE_zPDZU
Filming locations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_SbLi-X8JI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCr0sR6qgYw
What's the damage ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bal4cl57Whc
The Blue Brothers endorsed a "Catholic classic" by The Vatican in 2010
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/7835639/Vatican-declares-the-Blues-Brothers-a-Catholic-classic.html
Dan Aykroyd remembering John Belushi in 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKCVLQARzMc
Reaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAblH2-5qPE

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