The Blues Brothers are an American blues band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live. Belushi and Aykroyd, respectively in character as lead vocalist "Joliet" Jake Blues and harpist/vocalist Elwood Blues, fronted the band, which was composed of well-known and respected musicians. The band made its debut as the musical guest on the April 22, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live. Read Full BioThe Blues Brothers are an American blues band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live. Belushi and Aykroyd, respectively in character as lead vocalist "Joliet" Jake Blues and harpist/vocalist Elwood Blues, fronted the band, which was composed of well-known and respected musicians. The band made its debut as the musical guest on the April 22, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live.
The band then began to take on a life beyond the confines of the television screen, releasing an album, Briefcase Full of Blues, in 1978, and then having a Hollywood film, The Blues Brothers, created around its characters in 1980.
After the death of Belushi in 1982, the Blues Brothers have continued to perform with a rotation of guest singers and other band members. Aykroyd reunited the original band in 1988 for a world tour and again in 1998 for a sequel to the film, Blues Brothers 2000. Aykroyd and the band, occasionally joined by Belushi's brother Jim, make regular appearances at musical festivals worldwide.
The band then began to take on a life beyond the confines of the television screen, releasing an album, Briefcase Full of Blues, in 1978, and then having a Hollywood film, The Blues Brothers, created around its characters in 1980.
After the death of Belushi in 1982, the Blues Brothers have continued to perform with a rotation of guest singers and other band members. Aykroyd reunited the original band in 1988 for a world tour and again in 1998 for a sequel to the film, Blues Brothers 2000. Aykroyd and the band, occasionally joined by Belushi's brother Jim, make regular appearances at musical festivals worldwide.
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The Blues Brothers Lyrics
Good evening everyone and welcome
To the United States of America
And indeed we have congregated here at this time
To celebrate a most treasured wellspring of contemporary music
It is the sound which historians in the far future might catalog
Under twentieth century pre-light-emitting-diode euphoric
But today the sound lives and tonight is sampled exclusively
For your entertainment pleasure
From the music capitals of this continent
This is the hard hitting show band of Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues
Ladies and gentlemen, these are The Blues Brothers
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Ben Cauley, Carl Cunningham, James Alexander, Jimmy King, Phalon R. Jones, Ronnie Caldwell
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Harry Laws
You gotta play it loud wake the neighborhood up
Michael Blount
this version seems a little too fast
Abriana Burnette
In band class we love playing this song
space sailor
We're playing this for stand tunes
Matthew N
+Abriana Burnette Same!
safe321
I forgot all about this piece. Great memory! Thanks for posting!
Tony Lowery
@thenourman
you dont know good music... poor soul..
Igor Fux
@thenourman Do You even know how to speak or write eiglish language?
boirocr -Tamiko
Yea, I'm watching Super bad right now lol 11/2 /2020 at 9:08 whoot whoot enjoy my creatures of the world lol
morgster53
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