They played this movie for 20 years straight at one of my local cinemas. People dressed up and acted out the scenes. An absolute cult classic. If not THE cult classic.
I grew up in Socialist East-Germany. Blues was THE music at the time in this country. When the movie was finally available for us in the early 1990s we all loved it. Movie theatres kept playing it for weeks on end. We went there multiple times. It was the time I graduated as an engineer from university now travelling the world to install and repair all kinds of production machinery. But I also became an amateur electric blues harp player. Where ever I had to go on this planet I carried my little box with all of my Hohners and a green bullet mic like Elwood is using it (00:24). The sound of it is absolutely brilliant; snotty, dirty, loud and rocking as the Blues is supposed to be and life is in general. I played all over Asia, in Australia, the US, New Zealand, Argentina and the whole of East and Western Europe. The movie itself is a legend on all continents, in all cultures and in so many countries regardless of their political systems. Why? Because it is so human as its music and all of these characters are. Now I am too old and too sick to travel and play, but the Blues Brothers bring back those happy memories being on stage and jamming with all these brilliant local Blues Brothers and Sisters in so many different corners of the planet. Blues is hard work and Blues is hard party. And it takes seconds to make friends with total strangers. Oh, and of course, my sons and their girlfriends love the movie (actually both movies) too after I introduced them to the music and the films. Sometimes on a Friday night we still will munch our chips and drown some beers with Elwood and Jake wrecking the world with their music on the screen. Peace to all of you! from Dresden / Germany Harps, no arms!
Great story! Yes - it was played at a cinema here in Melbourne Australia every Friday night for many years. The audience would dress up and say all the lines, I went many times myself. I'm also a semiretired musician and just love this film and have done since it came out! Greetings and peace to you.
@@JulithaRyan Greeting to you as well. Somewhere in 1996 I installed a machine for CD and CD-ROM replication in the outskirts of Melbourne for a small 10-employee company (making floppy discs before our machine arrived). I was jamming was some local Blues Bands on Friday and Saturday nights in these old-fashioned family hotels with always a few Harleys in front. We drowned unbelievable amounts of VBs and Fosters. The installation took me and my mechanic about 6 weeks but I returned later a few times for minor repairs and maintenance. I had the hell of a time with you Aussies. Keep it swinging, mate! PS: And I loved the rental car, a Holden (like an RHD Opel Vectra here in Europe but with a big GM V8 inside, what a stomper). Drove all the way to Philipp island, took the circle around Melbourne with the ferry boat and cruised the Great Ocean road for a few days. Unforgettable! Peace! from Dresden / Germany Harps, no arms!
@@gerdlunau8411 Ha! That is truly amazing! I've been a Melbourne girl my whole life, but have recently moved to Point Lonsdale (right at the opening to Port Phillip Bay). I was playing in a folky band in '96. Now still playing in a couple of bands, occasional solo shows. 'Harps, no arms' is a great philosophy 🤩
@@JulithaRyan Yes. It is amazing that we the Boomers have to dig out some old hippie slogans. There are currently too many war mongers again on this planet, including on "our" side. I am too old and sick now to travel and I basically lived my life. But I am concerned about my kids generation. Have fun making music, which is like sports and science and commerce, it brings people together besides their differences. We Blues brothers always like and love our Blues sisters 🙂, the world would be poor without them. Cheers & peace! from Dresden / Germany Harps, no arms!
I grew up watching this film, ive seen it more times than I can remember. My late father loved it, I love it. One of the most awesome films ever made. It's a masterpiece with some of the greatest musical artists and actors to grace our homes and cinemas the world over.
1-The Bluesmobile actually hit 118 mph going down Lake Street 2-Steven Spielberg was the clerk who Jake & Elwood paid at the end of the movie 3-Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman) played Jake & Elwood's waiter in the restaurant Great video, keep em coming!
Joe walsh is one of the prisoners at the end dancing on the tables. John Landis (Trooper Lafong) and Stephen Bishop ( Charming Trooper) were the two ISP troopers upside down in the mall chase. Carrie Fishers character fires five rockets from a four tube rocket launcher. Mayor Jayne Byrne gave permission to drive thru Daley plaza as a big F.U. to Daley because supporters had been so shitty to her after she turned on the "Chicago machine" and tried to stamp out corruption.
oh i dunno......of the top of my head.....the Rocky Horror Picture show, Grease, Little shop of horrors, Paint your wagon, The king and i, Calamity jane, Mary poppins, Bugsey Malone, Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory, Chitty Chitty bang bang, Jungle Book, Labyrinth, Fame, Footloose, the nightmare before Christmas, a star is born (any version), Sweeny Todd...Rocket man, Bohemian Rhapsody?
I am a fifty year old straight bloke. Musicals I like..... Apart from the blues' brothers.... Grease. 8 mile. South Park the movie. Little shop of horrors. Rocky horror picture show. The lion king. The jungle book The phantom of the opera
@@Milesco wasn't too keen on plane's train's and automobile's. Maybe being a lot older now, I might look at it differently. But John Candy to me is Uncle Buck. The kind of uncle I would have liked as a kid, not the "Druncles" (drunk/uncles) I had
9:30 In Nuremberg, Germany there was a cinema (Ka-Li) where Blues Brothers was running for 460 weeks in a row with at minimum one show per week. Just to add to the legend ;)
In Munich the museums cinema ran it for years on the weekends.They still play the movie regularly today !( Google Blues brothers Kino München , to see for your self) They did the same with the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Before this movie came out, I bought The Blues Brothers album Briefcase Full of Blues after enjoying them on SNL. When the movie came out, I saw it as soon as it appeared at my local theater in rural Northern California. Great Stuff! Love this movie! I still watch it.
THE greatest musical of all time! Surprisingly there were a few facts I didnt know here. One was about Belushi injuring himself on a skateboard. Lots of cameos in it, Paul Ruebens as the waiter, Steven Spielberg as the Cook County Assessor, Joe Walsh in the closing prison sequence, Chaka Khan in the choir, singer Stephen Bishop as a trooper, Blues legends John Lee Hooker and Pinetop Perkins and more.
When I first saw this movie in the theater in 1980 I knew immediately that it would be a great hit. It is so full of talent and very entertaining. Have to watch it again.
Great Movie ! One funny glitch I noticed and I always look for when watching the movie is the scene where Carrie Fisher blows up the hotel . When the characters slowly rise up out of the rubble . There is the sound of the bricks shuffling around sounding like real bricks , but when the cop gets up ... one of the (Styrofoam) bricks is resting on the brim of his state trooper hat. It cracks me up every time .
ya know!, was watching Dusk to Dawn? Yesterday, when they walk out of Benny's World of Liquor!, getting BLOWN! FUBAR?, both Actors casually walking while foam looking bricks!, get flung all around em?, titty twisting Hollyweird!.
The movie helped keep me and other blues and jazz musician's working through next 20 years it helped revitalise other music genres. Again in part the Blues Bros 2000 helped burn the flame. Thankyou Dan Ackroyd and John Landis for such great vision and creativity.😎
#21: A Los Angeles rock radio station explained to listeners that the "BBM" needed extras for the concert scenes in #17 of this list. The concert scene was staged at the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Boulevard, in Hollywood. My friends and I worked two days sitting in the audience. We were paid $50 each day ($215 in 2024 value) and a box lunch. Aykroyd and Belushi drove director John Landis crazy as the band would play music for the audience between takes and wouldn't stop for the next shot until they were finished with the song. We sat on the floor, not too far from the stage. It was so much fun.
This movie gave my grandfather and I a stronger connection. He grew up on jazz and saw many of the greats live and in person in the UK, where there was no colour bar. His old records where the soundtrack to my childhood.
Im from Joliet and pass by the old Joliet prison every day. My grandpa and I used to watch this movie all the time together when I was little and point out all the scenes that we were familiar with due to us living in Joliet and Chicago. We'd also go around saying, "Jesus H tap dancing Christ!" or "We're on a mission from God.." whenever my grandma would get on us about something, lol. Miss them both, and every time this movie is on tv, I think of them.
Hey Rocky, here's one more thing: the ship passing under the bridge at the beginning is the W.W. Holloway, a Great Lakes freighter. But that isn't the ship that was hired. I know because I was the helmsman aboard a retired Coast Guard Cutter that was hired; the former Cutter McClain, which at the time was a civilian training vessel for anyone who wanted to learn seamanship, in Chicago. Our small, white ship is visible through the structure of the bridge @ 2:44 in your video. After the scene was shot, the very much larger W.W. Holloway approached and the director closed the bridge until he got permission to use the Holloway in the film. Holloway's Captain was furious. The Cutter McClain was built in 1927, sank a Japanese submarine during WWII, and is on display today in Muskegon, Michigan as a museum. Cheers!
This is my favorite movie! I grew up watching it, there's never a time when it won't brighten my day. I knew four of these. I knew aspects of several more but you focused on areas I hadn't heard of the stories.
I was in Texas on a training course for Memorex mainframe IT equipment at the time it came out, a bloke I was sharing accomodation with suggested we go to see it. Best movie EVER! 🇦🇺
I loved how this movie united two generations. I was high school age at the time. My mother was WWII generation who was not in love with modern music. This movie attracted her interest because she recognized musicians of her day like Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, and the other older ones. Mother remembered Minnie the Moocher from her childhood.
I actually attended the Valhalla cinema in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond to watch The Blues Brothers a few times & it was exactly how the narrator described it. I wish I had a dollar for every piece of dry, white toast that hit me, it was a blast!
Unfortunately we didn't have anything like that in Sydney at the time.... it developed much later. The cinema in Sydney showing the movie (at the time of release) was a pretty divey independent place...not one of the big 3 cinemas! But went at least 3 times when it came out. Great memories! Years later, I went to a live production of the Blues Brothers, which actually starred Russell Crowe as Elwood!! it was amazing....
I saw midnight screenings at the Valhalla in Melbourne a few times. The first time I saw it I had no idea what the film was about or what to expect. But after people held lighters aloft in the oil refinery scene at the start, I worked out what was happening and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I was there too in early 80's. To explain it better, there were 2 guys in BB attire on stage but in front of the screen and they mimicked the actions/moves whilst the movie was going. Entertainment plus, it was The theatre in the video 9:25 isn't the original Valhalla (ex-Victoria Theatre) which was in Richmond. It re-located to Westgarth 9:25 in 1987 and is now called The Westgarth.
There was replica blues mobile getting around Melbourne that was usually parked out the front of the Valhalla on a Friday night. The Valhalla also did regular crowd participation screenings of The Rocky Horror Pictures Show.
Wish we had a Blues Brothers cinema in Montréal, Canada -- instead we had one that regularly showed Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the dressed-up audiences threw rice at the screen during the sing-alongs in lieu of toast.
One of my favorite parts was when they were sitting in the school classroom, in the small child chairs, and the Nun starting hitting them with the rulers and then chasing them down the stairs.
I was about 12 when I first saw this movie. My dad taped the edited for television version and we watched it many times over. It was my first introduction to (non-Motown) soul music. Aretha, Ray, Cab, James, etc. I can understand how some adults might have thought it was a little campy, but it’s the perfect movie for families of preadolescents. The choir/dance number in the church was the best part. It’s still one of my favorite movies of all time.
It's such a great, special movie! So uniquely funny and over the top crazy, with a special kind of cool 😎 not to forget, it definitely was a milestone and introduced a lot of people to soul and blues music...including young me 😍 thanks, jake and elwood, for laying the foundations of a life long love. 💘 Also, thanks for that vid! Very enjoyable! 😃
I love this movie, especially the great music. I'm glad that John Landis stuck to his desire to use the original "Minnie the Moocher" instead of the disco version. I also love the the cameos and now famous actors, then unknown, appearing in the movie. I also have a 1/43 diecast model of the Blues Mobile.
When John was going to college at the University of Wisconsin -Whitewater, he used to practice his comedy routines in front of the house where the father of a friend of mine lived. John and the father became good friends.
They recorded the stunts racing though the streets of Chicago a second time with people so nobody would think they scenes were sped up in post Blues Brothers 2000 also set records for car stunts. James Brown sing live over a recording because he didn't lip sync. Frank Oz wasn't the only director featued in Blues Brothers, Steve Spielberg has a cameo at the end. There's an extended version with longer performance scenes and more. There's also a lost roadhouse cut that went about 3 hours. There's a cut song Sink the Bismarck and extended complete versions of songs like Quando, Quando, Quando and Just the Way You Are available online. I hope they do a complete soundtrack some say.
I didn't realise it was John Belushi doing the cartwheel on stage, assuming he couldn't do it due to his portly physique. I watched that scene over and over and was convinced it was a body double.
@@sludge8506 There are and where a lot of 'portly' people who are surprising light on their feet. Since I'm an Army guy, I'll give you a related example. The was an American General in WW1 named Hunter Liggett who was coveted by every senior officer who ever served with him. He was very good at his craft. The problem was, as you might guess, he was a VERY hefty man. Much bigger than Belushi. The French High Command, who ran the show, dismissed him as a serious soldier at first sight. That all changed when he mounted his horse to leave as they all watched. He put one hand on the horn and leaped up on the saddle without using the stirups or his other hand. His horse was a Belgium Draft. The F-350 of horses. They are massive in weight and height. I couldn't have done that on my best day and I stayed in shape for the 8 years I served. I wish someone had filmed it. A little long winded. Sorry about that but it's a cool story.
When i was stationed in Germany in the 80s, there was a theater in Nuremberg that only played the Blues Brother movie , that was all it showed. It was amazing to see. Cult Classic
@@cggentry No, they never did. Neo-Nazis were becoming a big threatening harassment in the 1980s and the 1990s here in Germany. So this movie was another good laugh at these idiots. PS: According to German laws these symbols are illegal to be shown in public but with some exceptions, like historical documents and photos in publications but also in pieces of art with some limitations. It never will be censored if it is used for making a fool of the Nazis. And righteously so. Peace! from Dresden / Germany
My all time favorite movie! When it first came out on video, I rented the movie so much that I was banned from renting it anymore (there was only one video rental store in my town). I eventually bought it when it became available, and still have it. I can recite the movie from start to finish, including the songs. I also loved the Bluesmobile so much, back then, that I bought a 1976 Plymouth Gran Fury ex State Police car (closest I could come to the 1974 Dodge Monaco ). I loved that car. Wish I could find another one now.
Maxwell Street is just south of the University of Illinois Chicago campus, and after school one day I watched them film the scene where the car pulls up to Aretha Franklin's diner. (I never saw the stars.) They had the street lit up with many gigantic lights and I watched them repeat the scene again and again. (PS - The Hill Street Blues "Police Station" is a just block away!)
1st year of high school, 1990. I hired out the VHS of this great movie & did an assignment on it for music class… this soundtrack is still one of my ultimate faves
Thank you for the memories about the Valhalla cinema in victoria Street Richmond melbourne Victoria... This film and the Rocky horror picture show had an incredible following … I love that picture Theatre… I never understood why they pulled it down… We have the Astor Theatre now…
I saw the Belushi and Aykroyd just before a scene at Joliet Prison. The grips and others were setting up the shoot. There were two doubles dressed as the Blues Brother, Henry Gibson the Nazi, Arte Johnson from Laugh In as well as others working on gear. Everybody was waiting for the two stars to show up but they were late. As I was leaving Both Belushi and Aykroyd were walking toward the area. Passing them I just looked their way and kept going as others did too. No local area people were going to let two Chicago guys to do that to us. Belushi was like “Hey, I’m a star” with his look of amassment that nobody cared as he strutted by. Balushi looked to be stoned. The two stars that mattered to most to me were Arte Johnston and Henry Gibson. The talked with everyone just like regular people.
My absolute favorite scene from Blues Brothers 2000 is the battle of the bands. You will never get an iconic gathering like that again. We have lost so many of those great souls!
@@ebinrock unfortunately the movie was bad but the music acts and especially the end battle are awesome.....while i enjoy the first as a whole the 2nd mostly for the music
I saw a movie about John Belushi. His substance abuse problem was so bad he hired a body guard to protect him from drugs. Instead of a body guard stepping between John and a fan or ushering John out the back door, the body guard stepped between John and drugs and ushered him away from the drugs. It was also the body guard's job to prevent John from sneaking away. I guess it was like babysitting a child.
Rate John Belushi as a kind of honorary member of the 27 club, though he was in his 30s when he passed. Without this movie, the old blues and soul stars wouldn't have the revival they seen in the 80s and early 90s , featuring old soul and jazz hits in commercials and back on hit lists. It's thanks to Belushi and Ackroyd this movie happened and did for black artists what it did
@@reuireuiop0 Motown & Stax were already regaining popularity by the late 70s here in the UK. Along with Jamaican ska rocksteady & reggay classics of the 60s
So happy i saw this movie at the Drive-in. Such N experience!! The place was packed, and everyone was dancing on the roofs n hoods of their cars. I was only 16 then, and today at 60 i remember it like it was yesterday. Controlled chaos, something these last few generations don't understand. No fighting, no guns, just lots of weed, beer, and a good time was had by all.
I had a yellow and a black lab I named them Jake and Elwood. The weekend we got them I came across the Blues Brothers playing on air. The pups were watching the movie. They would get real excited when the music came on. Start chasing each other around. So we kinda started repeating the names the yellow would look at us when we said Jake! And the black lab perked up at Elwood! (I mean, who wouldn't!). Best pups. I miss them.
One of my favorite movies now that I live in Iowa (IOWA???) I love it even more with all that hot blues soundtrack and the classic spots in Chicago that take me back there. My father and I went to see it and he loved it more then me and my friends are still asking me when am I getting the Blues mobile I used to live in MT Prospect before moving to Iowa (yes Iowa it was my wife's birthplace)
The album has been on my playlist since day one. I've been to every location in Illinois, from the 95th street bridge used in the car jump to Joliet Prison and Dixie Square. My dad used to be the marketing director there, back in the mid 1970's. Employee theft was one of the main reasons it closed. I think that's one of my photos from the mall demolition in your video. That stunt with the squad car tapping and shattering the Mars Light (roller) was made in a single take and not models. Mayor Daily is the reason the city of Chicago had no movies shot there. He was against the movie industry. For a few years there were multiple hair salons named "Curl up and Dye" around Chicago.
Probably the first 20 things you didn't know videos where I actually didn't know the majority of the shared facts. Well done! As for #17 same thing happened with the Rocky Horror Picture Show, with people acting along with the movie. (throwing rice for the wedding, water pistols - to create rain, and newspapers held over the head - to prevent getting wet from the rain, and dancing along with to the Time Warp, for a few examples.)
I haven't seen it in ages, but I bet it still holds up. It was so funny my belly was sore from spasms of laughter on the way home. I literally laughed too much.
I'm the biggest Blues Brothers fan I know (I love the movie, the albums, the SNL appearances, the merch, the House of Blues clubs, the Universal Studios street show, & I even love the laughable video games & Jim Belushi's character "Brother Zee") & I'm pleased that this video contained stuff tgat even I didn't know. Well done.
One of my very favorite movies ever... I saw it at the theater when it first came out, and have seen it at least 20 times since then. I knew a lot of the items covered in this video because I have watched videos about making the film and have read a lot about it also. In the scene where Jake and Elwood go to recruit Matt "Guitar" Murphy, one of Aretha's back-up singers was her younger sister Carolyn. The beauty salon where Carrie Fisher worked was called "Curl Up and Dye". In the scene where Jake and Elwood eat at the fancy restaurant to recruit "Mr. Fabulous" (Alan Rubin), their waiter was Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman) in an early film role. In the car chase at the end, a brief view of the Bluesmobile's speedo reads 115mph. Yeah, I love this movie!
A few years after it came out, my dad sold pianos and electronic stuff and he made me watch BB on full size laser disk in the store. Loved it ever since
6:23 Belushi was well known for this habit, inspiring the 4th Season SNL trailer for horror film "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave." One of my all time favorites, a love letter to Chicago that ended Mayor Daley's Lower Wacker film ban, and the best SNL film.
lol, I had this on different formats ever since it came out and Blu-ray Theatrical-extended version is superb! My children who weren't even born yet sure loved it years later when I would always play it, a staple in my home. A gem that will never be forgotten...I' think I'll watch it this long weekend?
Mistake. It was Toronto Canada where Balushi wondered into someone’s house. It was during the mall scene. Someone had to go find him. The mall was in Toronto as well.
We play both kinds, Country and Western. Classic
So many people i know have written this movie off, but for me, its one of my favourites! Ever!
It's definitely one of my all-time favorites! 😎
They played this movie for 20 years straight at one of my local cinemas.
People dressed up and acted out the scenes.
An absolute cult classic.
If not THE cult classic.
You have been hanging with the wrong people! The Blues Brothers is one of the most enjoyable movies to ever come out of Hollywood!!!!
Nobody I know has written off the blues brothers. Even young friends of my kids love to see it now and again. Who are these people?
I am Dutch and watched this movie 20 times at least. Should be mandatory at schools everywhere
I grew up in Socialist East-Germany. Blues was THE music at the time in this country. When the movie was finally available for us in the early 1990s we all loved it. Movie theatres kept playing it for weeks on end. We went there multiple times.
It was the time I graduated as an engineer from university now travelling the world to install and repair all kinds of production machinery. But I also became an amateur electric blues harp player. Where ever I had to go on this planet I carried my little box with all of my Hohners and a green bullet mic like Elwood is using it (00:24). The sound of it is absolutely brilliant; snotty, dirty, loud and rocking as the Blues is supposed to be and life is in general.
I played all over Asia, in Australia, the US, New Zealand, Argentina and the whole of East and Western Europe. The movie itself is a legend on all continents, in all cultures and in so many countries regardless of their political systems. Why? Because it is so human as its music and all of these characters are.
Now I am too old and too sick to travel and play, but the Blues Brothers bring back those happy memories being on stage and jamming with all these brilliant local Blues Brothers and Sisters in so many different corners of the planet. Blues is hard work and Blues is hard party. And it takes seconds to make friends with total strangers.
Oh, and of course, my sons and their girlfriends love the movie (actually both movies) too after I introduced them to the music and the films. Sometimes on a Friday night we still will munch our chips and drown some beers with Elwood and Jake wrecking the world with their music on the screen.
Peace to all of you! from Dresden / Germany
Harps, no arms!
Great story! Yes - it was played at a cinema here in Melbourne Australia every Friday night for many years. The audience would dress up and say all the lines, I went many times myself. I'm also a semiretired musician and just love this film and have done since it came out! Greetings and peace to you.
@@JulithaRyan
Greeting to you as well. Somewhere in 1996 I installed a machine for CD and CD-ROM replication in the outskirts of Melbourne for a small 10-employee company (making floppy discs before our machine arrived).
I was jamming was some local Blues Bands on Friday and Saturday nights in these old-fashioned family hotels with always a few Harleys in front. We drowned unbelievable amounts of VBs and Fosters. The installation took me and my mechanic about 6 weeks but I returned later a few times for minor repairs and maintenance. I had the hell of a time with you Aussies. Keep it swinging, mate!
PS: And I loved the rental car, a Holden (like an RHD Opel Vectra here in Europe but with a big GM V8 inside, what a stomper). Drove all the way to Philipp island, took the circle around Melbourne with the ferry boat and cruised the Great Ocean road for a few days. Unforgettable!
Peace! from Dresden / Germany
Harps, no arms!
@@gerdlunau8411 Ha! That is truly amazing! I've been a Melbourne girl my whole life, but have recently moved to Point Lonsdale (right at the opening to Port Phillip Bay). I was playing in a folky band in '96. Now still playing in a couple of bands, occasional solo shows. 'Harps, no arms' is a great philosophy 🤩
@@JulithaRyan
Yes. It is amazing that we the Boomers have to dig out some old hippie slogans. There are currently too many war mongers again on this planet, including on "our" side.
I am too old and sick now to travel and I basically lived my life. But I am concerned about my kids generation.
Have fun making music, which is like sports and science and commerce, it brings people together besides their differences.
We Blues brothers always like and love our Blues sisters 🙂, the world would be poor without them.
Cheers & peace! from Dresden / Germany
Harps, no arms!
Thank you for sharing.
"It's 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."
“Hit it!”
@@jlmconstruction9412 you beat me to it
Hit it
Hit it!
Hit it
I grew up watching this film, ive seen it more times than I can remember. My late father loved it, I love it. One of the most awesome films ever made. It's a masterpiece with some of the greatest musical artists and actors to grace our homes and cinemas the world over.
As a drummer, and a Blues Brothers fan, it breaks my heart every time that rear end swipes through that beautiful Pearl kit in the window.
😮thought the SAME THING!!
Word
The Oldsmobiles are in early this year.
@@JohnnyULives-lz1ml They have everything here
Mate 🤪🤣🦘👍🏽
This movie never gets old
1-The Bluesmobile actually hit 118 mph going down Lake Street
2-Steven Spielberg was the clerk who Jake & Elwood paid at the end of the movie
3-Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman) played Jake & Elwood's waiter in the restaurant
Great video, keep em coming!
@@karlepaul6632 , I did not know that about Steven.
4- The only time that Jake removes his glasses is when begging for forgiveness in front of Carrie Fisher..
Joe walsh is one of the prisoners at the end dancing on the tables.
John Landis (Trooper Lafong) and Stephen Bishop ( Charming Trooper) were the two ISP troopers upside down in the mall chase.
Carrie Fishers character fires five rockets from a four tube rocket launcher.
Mayor Jayne Byrne gave permission to drive thru Daley plaza as a big F.U. to Daley because supporters had been so shitty to her after she turned on the "Chicago machine" and tried to stamp out corruption.
You should have said Pee Wee Herman instead of Paul Reubens so that people would know who you're talking about.
1)classic scene all the dust & crap flying...good luck getting a permit to do that today.
My late Father always used to call this movie "The epitome of car chases" and it's still one of my favorites.
This is car fifty-five... we're in a truck!!
The scene where they're racing under the L was taken from The French Connection.
just gave me a reason to watch it again. one of my all time favorites
Mine, too! 😎
Ditto that for me too.
YOU ALL MUST WATCH IT AGAIN
The only movie musical that guys can admit to watching and liking. There aren't many movies that fall in that category.
Paint Your Wagon.
oh i dunno......of the top of my head.....the Rocky Horror Picture show, Grease, Little shop of horrors, Paint your wagon, The king and i, Calamity jane, Mary poppins, Bugsey Malone, Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory, Chitty Chitty bang bang, Jungle Book, Labyrinth, Fame, Footloose, the nightmare before Christmas, a star is born (any version), Sweeny Todd...Rocket man, Bohemian Rhapsody?
I am a fifty year old straight bloke.
Musicals I like..... Apart from the blues' brothers....
Grease.
8 mile.
South Park the movie.
Little shop of horrors.
Rocky horror picture show.
The lion king.
The jungle book
The phantom of the opera
The little shop of horrors. Rocky horror picture show.
@@StoffelDilligasGuys and Dolls, Anchors Away, Singing in the Rain, West Side Story
The name of the salon where Carrie Fisher works is "Curl Up and Dye".
That was also used as the name of the hair salon in "Earth Girls Are Easy" from 1988!
I used to drive past one in Puyallup, WA😁 I love that name! Apparently there are several, which makes me happy.
"Orange whip? Orange whip?
Three orange whips"
I have made them look them up ,really good easy to make
Chicago radio legend Steve Dahl was standing just off camera when the orange whip scene was shot.
@@rkgaustin Steve Dull??
The late, great John Candy. R.I.P.
Starred in my other favorite comedy of all time, _Planes, Trains, and Automobiles_ (1987) 😥
@@Milesco wasn't too keen on plane's train's and automobile's. Maybe being a lot older now, I might look at it differently.
But John Candy to me is Uncle Buck. The kind of uncle I would have liked as a kid, not the "Druncles" (drunk/uncles) I had
Such a brilliant film. The script, the acting, the stunts and best of all the soundtrack. Brilliant. Just shows what the critics know.
The kid who tires to steal the guitar out of Ray's shop went on to play the limo driver (Argyle) in Die Hard
Wow, cool trivia!👍😎
When I feel depressed The Blues Brothers is my best medicine. Just love it!
Saw it in the theatre and loved it! Bought a VHS tape and watched at home with my 2 young boys...they must have watched it 50 times!
9:30 In Nuremberg, Germany there was a cinema (Ka-Li) where Blues Brothers was running for 460 weeks in a row with at minimum one show per week. Just to add to the legend ;)
In Munich the museums cinema ran it for years on the weekends.They still play the movie regularly today !( Google Blues brothers Kino München , to see for your self)
They did the same with the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Before this movie came out, I bought The Blues Brothers album Briefcase Full of Blues after enjoying them on SNL. When the movie came out, I saw it as soon as it appeared at my local theater in rural Northern California. Great Stuff! Love this movie! I still watch it.
I have 4 BB albums. Briefcase, made on America, movie soundtrack and one more I can't remember 🤔
THE greatest musical of all time!
Surprisingly there were a few facts I didnt know here. One was about Belushi injuring himself on a skateboard.
Lots of cameos in it, Paul Ruebens as the waiter, Steven Spielberg as the Cook County Assessor, Joe Walsh in the closing prison sequence, Chaka Khan in the choir, singer Stephen Bishop as a trooper, Blues legends John Lee Hooker and Pinetop Perkins and more.
I never knew that was Joe Walsh. I have seen him play twice and have seen this movie a dozen times or more
. Thanks for the info.
@@Showmethecow I know.
The Blues Brothers Is the greatest movie of all time. period
@@tonydamiani7353 it's definitely in my top three with "Apocalypse Now" and "Scarface" and perhaps "LOTR"
When I first saw this movie in the theater in 1980 I knew immediately that it would be a great hit. It is so full of talent and very entertaining. Have to watch it again.
Great Movie ! One funny glitch I noticed and I always look for when watching the movie is the scene where Carrie Fisher blows up the hotel . When the characters slowly rise up out of the rubble . There is the sound of the bricks shuffling around sounding like real bricks , but when the cop gets up ... one of the (Styrofoam) bricks is resting on the brim of his state trooper hat. It cracks me up every time .
It's almost 9 o'clock. We gotta go to work!
I saw that in the theater years ago, pointed up and yelled brick!
ya know!, was watching Dusk to Dawn? Yesterday, when they walk out of Benny's World of Liquor!, getting BLOWN! FUBAR?, both Actors casually walking while foam looking bricks!, get flung all around em?, titty twisting Hollyweird!.
We used to call that The World's Strongest Police Hat!
Valhalla Blues Brothers, Melbourne, Australia
Probably provided by the same guy who provided the bouncing boulders in Indiana Jones😁
The movie helped keep me and other blues and jazz musician's working through next 20 years it helped revitalise other music genres. Again in part the Blues Bros 2000 helped burn the flame.
Thankyou Dan Ackroyd and John Landis for such great vision and creativity.😎
One of my absolute favorite movies of all times!
#21:
A Los Angeles rock radio station explained to listeners that the "BBM" needed extras for the concert scenes in #17 of this list.
The concert scene was staged at the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Boulevard, in Hollywood.
My friends and I worked two days sitting in the audience. We were paid $50 each day ($215 in 2024 value) and a box lunch. Aykroyd and Belushi drove director John Landis crazy as the band would play music for the audience between takes and wouldn't stop for the next shot until they were finished with the song.
We sat on the floor, not too far from the stage. It was so much fun.
This movie gave my grandfather and I a stronger connection. He grew up on jazz and saw many of the greats live and in person in the UK, where there was no colour bar. His old records where the soundtrack to my childhood.
Im from Joliet and pass by the old Joliet prison every day. My grandpa and I used to watch this movie all the time together when I was little and point out all the scenes that we were familiar with due to us living in Joliet and Chicago. We'd also go around saying, "Jesus H tap dancing Christ!" or "We're on a mission from God.." whenever my grandma would get on us about something, lol. Miss them both, and every time this movie is on tv, I think of them.
Hey Rocky, here's one more thing: the ship passing under the bridge at the beginning is the W.W.
Holloway, a Great Lakes freighter. But that isn't the ship that was hired. I know because I was the helmsman aboard a retired Coast Guard Cutter that was hired; the former Cutter McClain, which at the time was a civilian training vessel for anyone who wanted to learn seamanship, in Chicago.
Our small, white ship is visible through the structure of the bridge @ 2:44 in your video.
After the scene was shot, the very much larger W.W. Holloway approached and the director closed the bridge until he got permission to use the Holloway in the film. Holloway's Captain was furious.
The Cutter McClain was built in 1927, sank a Japanese submarine during WWII, and is on display today in Muskegon, Michigan as a museum.
Cheers!
This is my favorite movie! I grew up watching it, there's never a time when it won't brighten my day. I knew four of these. I knew aspects of several more but you focused on areas I hadn't heard of the stories.
I was in Texas on a training course for Memorex mainframe IT equipment at the time it came out, a bloke I was sharing accomodation with suggested we go to see it. Best movie EVER! 🇦🇺
ICONS FOREVER
Thank you very much.
I loved how this movie united two generations. I was high school age at the time. My mother was WWII generation who was not in love with modern music. This movie attracted her interest because she recognized musicians of her day like Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, and the other older ones. Mother remembered Minnie the Moocher from her childhood.
My FAVORITE movie! Thank you sir!
Mine also
Mine, too! 🚔 🎵 😎
I actually attended the Valhalla cinema in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond to watch The Blues Brothers a few times & it was exactly how the narrator described it. I wish I had a dollar for every piece of dry, white toast that hit me, it was a blast!
Unfortunately we didn't have anything like that in Sydney at the time.... it developed much later. The cinema in Sydney showing the movie (at the time of release) was a pretty divey independent place...not one of the big 3 cinemas! But went at least 3 times when it came out. Great memories! Years later, I went to a live production of the Blues Brothers, which actually starred Russell Crowe as Elwood!! it was amazing....
I saw midnight screenings at the Valhalla in Melbourne a few times. The first time I saw it I had no idea what the film was about or what to expect. But after people held lighters aloft in the oil refinery scene at the start, I worked out what was happening and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I was there too in early 80's.
To explain it better, there were 2 guys in BB attire on stage but in front of the screen and they mimicked the actions/moves whilst the movie was going.
Entertainment plus, it was
The theatre in the video 9:25 isn't the original Valhalla (ex-Victoria Theatre) which was in Richmond. It re-located to Westgarth 9:25 in 1987 and is now called The Westgarth.
There was replica blues mobile getting around Melbourne that was usually parked out the front of the Valhalla on a Friday night. The Valhalla also did regular crowd participation screenings of The Rocky Horror Pictures Show.
Wish we had a Blues Brothers cinema in Montréal, Canada -- instead we had one that regularly showed Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the dressed-up audiences threw rice at the screen during the sing-alongs in lieu of toast.
I watch it over and over. There are soooo many great scenes.
One of my favorite parts was when they were sitting in the school classroom, in the small child chairs, and the Nun starting hitting them with the rulers and then chasing them down the stairs.
Yeah, me too... Laughed my ass off at that.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was about 12 when I first saw this movie. My dad taped the edited for television version and we watched it many times over. It was my first introduction to (non-Motown) soul music. Aretha, Ray, Cab, James, etc. I can understand how some adults might have thought it was a little campy, but it’s the perfect movie for families of preadolescents. The choir/dance number in the church was the best part. It’s still one of my favorite movies of all time.
"how much for the little girl?...your women, I want to buy your women."
This is a standard line for when I am with friends trying to find a table!
Classic
$50 and you can have them.
@@TheRantyRider Ghow much!?
One of the greatest ever!
It was one of my favourite movies back in the 80's. It's still one of my all-time favourites :-) Spielberg's cameo made even cooler.
One of the best movies EVER!
It's such a great, special movie! So uniquely funny and over the top crazy, with a special kind of cool 😎 not to forget, it definitely was a milestone and introduced a lot of people to soul and blues music...including young me 😍 thanks, jake and elwood, for laying the foundations of a life long love. 💘
Also, thanks for that vid! Very enjoyable! 😃
I love this movie, especially the great music. I'm glad that John Landis stuck to his desire to use the original "Minnie the Moocher" instead of the disco version. I also love the the cameos and now famous actors, then unknown, appearing in the movie.
I also have a 1/43 diecast model of the Blues Mobile.
I have a 1/18 diecast😀
@@steven6709 And I have a 1/64th scale Bluesmobile!! 👍👍👍
When John was going to college at the University of Wisconsin -Whitewater, he used to practice his comedy routines in front of the house where the father of a friend of mine lived. John and the father became good friends.
I will always regret not taking a day off work to go downtown to watch the filming of this classic.
Graduation Summer. One of my all-time favorites.
They recorded the stunts racing though the streets of Chicago a second time with people so nobody would think they scenes were sped up in post
Blues Brothers 2000 also set records for car stunts. James Brown sing live over a recording because he didn't lip sync. Frank Oz wasn't the only director featued in Blues Brothers, Steve Spielberg has a cameo at the end. There's an extended version with longer performance scenes and more. There's also a lost roadhouse cut that went about 3 hours. There's a cut song Sink the Bismarck and extended complete versions of songs like Quando, Quando, Quando and Just the Way You Are available online. I hope they do a complete soundtrack some say.
Both Dan and John were great!!!! RIP John Belushi
I still have a Blues Brothers poster on the wall at work, it makes me smile every time I see it.
I didn't realise it was John Belushi doing the cartwheel on stage, assuming he couldn't do it due to his portly physique. I watched that scene over and over and was convinced it was a body double.
He was actually a good athlete!!
I think it was the chocalitly donuts.
@@sludge8506 There are and where a lot of 'portly' people who are surprising light on their feet. Since I'm an Army guy, I'll give you a related example. The was an American General in WW1 named Hunter Liggett who was coveted by every senior officer who ever served with him. He was very good at his craft. The problem was, as you might guess, he was a VERY hefty man. Much bigger than Belushi. The French High Command, who ran the show, dismissed him as a serious soldier at first sight. That all changed when he mounted his horse to leave as they all watched. He put one hand on the horn and leaped up on the saddle without using the stirups or his other hand. His horse was a Belgium Draft. The F-350 of horses. They are massive in weight and height. I couldn't have done that on my best day and I stayed in shape for the 8 years I served. I wish someone had filmed it. A little long winded. Sorry about that but it's a cool story.
@@tanker335 👍👍👍👍
@@tanker335 My uncle, who was born in the 1930s, only danced with chubby girls because they were lighter on their feet.
When i was stationed in Germany in the 80s, there was a theater in Nuremberg that only played the Blues Brother movie , that was all it showed. It was amazing to see. Cult Classic
Did they censor the swastikas?
@@cggentry
No, they never did. Neo-Nazis were becoming a big threatening harassment in the 1980s and the 1990s here in Germany. So this movie was another good laugh at these idiots.
PS: According to German laws these symbols are illegal to be shown in public but with some exceptions, like historical documents and photos in publications but also in pieces of art with some limitations. It never will be censored if it is used for making a fool of the Nazis. And righteously so.
Peace! from Dresden / Germany
@@cggentry nope
Wacthed this outstanding movie over 300 times .......then I lost count.............UNBEATABLE!
My all time favorite movie! When it first came out on video, I rented the movie so much that I was banned from renting it anymore (there was only one video rental store in my town). I eventually bought it when it became available, and still have it. I can recite the movie from start to finish, including the songs. I also loved the Bluesmobile so much, back then, that I bought a 1976 Plymouth Gran Fury ex State Police car (closest I could come to the 1974 Dodge Monaco ). I loved that car. Wish I could find another one now.
Maxwell Street is just south of the University of Illinois Chicago campus, and after school one day I watched them film the scene where the car pulls up to Aretha Franklin's diner. (I never saw the stars.) They had the street lit up with many gigantic lights and I watched them repeat the scene again and again. (PS - The Hill Street Blues "Police Station" is a just block away!)
I saw it early and loved it. The Nun scene was surreal.
The bridge the Pinto drove off of is in Milwaukee WI. It had been only partially built for years; it has since been completed.
A wild and wonderful movie. Just brilliant!
1st year of high school, 1990. I hired out the VHS of this great movie & did an assignment on it for music class… this soundtrack is still one of my ultimate faves
Thank you for the memories about the Valhalla cinema in victoria Street Richmond melbourne Victoria... This film and the Rocky horror picture show had an incredible following … I love that picture Theatre… I never understood why they pulled it down… We have the Astor Theatre now…
This movie is a classic and still close to my heart
This is an awesome movie, everytime I watch it, it just gets better and I still laugh at it
My dad and brother watched this movie on vhs so much we wore out the tape😂
One of my all time favorite movies.
That is gold , still watch and love this movie today
At age 15 seeing this in a cinema left quite an impression, years later I bought the CD. It has been a fond memory ever since 🙂
I saw the Belushi and Aykroyd just before a scene at Joliet Prison. The grips and others were setting up the shoot. There were two doubles dressed as the Blues Brother, Henry Gibson the Nazi, Arte Johnson from Laugh In as well as others working on gear. Everybody was waiting for the two stars to show up but they were late. As I was leaving Both Belushi and Aykroyd were walking toward the area. Passing them I just looked their way and kept going as others did too. No local area people were going to let two Chicago guys to do that to us. Belushi was like “Hey, I’m a star” with his look of amassment that nobody cared as he strutted by. Balushi looked to be stoned. The two stars that mattered to most to me were Arte Johnston and Henry Gibson. The talked with everyone just like regular people.
I literally cried when "The Bluesmobile" self-destructed 😭
It didn't self destruct, it literally was driven to pieces.
It's a reference to the French movie "le corniaud". I let you look for the part, it's on UA-cam
Still, one of the BEST movies ever made with the greatest car chase and amazing songs to boot!!!
My absolute favorite scene from Blues Brothers 2000 is the battle of the bands. You will never get an iconic gathering like that again. We have lost so many of those great souls!
The Louisiana Gator Boys is the greatest jam band of all time.
Sorry, but I didn't like the sequel. I love John Goodman, but without John Belushi, the Blues Brothers simply doesn't work. And the kid was annoying.
@@ebinrock unfortunately the movie was bad but the music acts and especially the end battle are awesome.....while i enjoy the first as a whole the 2nd mostly for the music
One of the best soundtracks ever.
I saw a movie about John Belushi.
His substance abuse problem was so bad he hired a body guard to protect him from drugs. Instead of a body guard stepping between John and a fan or ushering John out the back door, the body guard stepped between John and drugs and ushered him away from the drugs. It was also the body guard's job to prevent John from sneaking away.
I guess it was like babysitting a child.
Rate John Belushi as a kind of honorary member of the 27 club, though he was in his 30s when he passed.
Without this movie, the old blues and soul stars wouldn't have the revival they seen in the 80s and early 90s , featuring old soul and jazz hits in commercials and back on hit lists. It's thanks to Belushi and Ackroyd this movie happened and did for black artists what it did
@@reuireuiop0 Motown & Stax were already regaining popularity by the late 70s here in the UK. Along with Jamaican ska rocksteady & reggay classics of the 60s
So happy i saw this movie at the Drive-in. Such N experience!! The place was packed, and everyone was dancing on the roofs n hoods of their cars. I was only 16 then, and today at 60 i remember it like it was yesterday. Controlled chaos, something these last few generations don't understand. No fighting, no guns, just lots of weed, beer, and a good time was had by all.
One of the best films ever. A time capsule of legendary talent.
I had a yellow and a black lab I named them Jake and Elwood. The weekend we got them I came across the Blues Brothers playing on air. The pups were watching the movie. They would get real excited when the music came on. Start chasing each other around. So we kinda started repeating the names the yellow would look at us when we said Jake! And the black lab perked up at Elwood! (I mean, who wouldn't!). Best pups. I miss them.
One of my favorite movies now that I live in Iowa (IOWA???) I love it even more with all that hot blues soundtrack and the classic spots in Chicago that take me back there. My father and I went to see it and he loved it more then me and my friends are still asking me when am I getting the Blues mobile I used to live in MT Prospect before moving to Iowa (yes Iowa it was my wife's birthplace)
I met John Landis, and he did recount that story about Belushi wondering off and being found asleep in a strangers house.
I saw the Blues Brothers in concert in 1981 at the long beach arena. They opened up for Steve Martin. Great show!
I'm locked in a bunker for a year, I only have 10 DVDs I can watch over and over.
Blues Brothers is one of them.
The album has been on my playlist since day one. I've been to every location in Illinois, from the 95th street bridge used in the car jump to Joliet Prison and Dixie Square. My dad used to be the marketing director there, back in the mid 1970's. Employee theft was one of the main reasons it closed. I think that's one of my photos from the mall demolition in your video. That stunt with the squad car tapping and shattering the Mars Light (roller) was made in a single take and not models. Mayor Daily is the reason the city of Chicago had no movies shot there. He was against the movie industry. For a few years there were multiple hair salons named "Curl up and Dye" around Chicago.
Very enjoyable and I really like the fact that it wasn't an American narrating this like 99% of the videos we see
Great film, in my top 10.
Probably the first 20 things you didn't know videos where I actually didn't know the majority of the shared facts. Well done!
As for #17 same thing happened with the Rocky Horror Picture Show, with people acting along with the movie. (throwing rice for the wedding, water pistols - to create rain, and newspapers held over the head - to prevent getting wet from the rain, and dancing along with to the Time Warp, for a few examples.)
I saw Rocky Horror and Blues Brothers at the Valhalla. It was a lot of fun.
Throwing bread in Rocky Horror , but I can't remember what for
@@bourbonslurpee Was that the Valhalla in Adelaide? Or were there other Valhallas in other cities?
@@MyMusic-cd3do Melbourne
@erik_dk842 The bread was to cheers for a toast, and then the audience would say, "who's throwing croutons"
I saw it in the Theater when it came out. Always a favorite
great movie and the mall chase was fantastic
New Oldsmpbiles are in early this year!
@@DarrenMartin-x9vI remembered it as Chryslers, but you are right
I haven't seen it in ages, but I bet it still holds up. It was so funny my belly was sore from spasms of laughter on the way home. I literally laughed too much.
I'm the biggest Blues Brothers fan I know (I love the movie, the albums, the SNL appearances, the merch, the House of Blues clubs, the Universal Studios street show, & I even love the laughable video games & Jim Belushi's character "Brother Zee") & I'm pleased that this video contained stuff tgat even I didn't know. Well done.
been nice to hear them close the credits in Cab Calloway newest rendition
proving the blues live forever
One of the Top 5 'guy movies' EVER! Up there with Shawshank Redemption, Deliverance, Cool Hand Luke and Outlaw Josie Wales!
You forgot the dude
Not cool, man. Not cool.
Dan akroyd always liked backstories. For example, he has an explication for every single piece on the Ectomobile in Ghostbusters.
The movie was of many genres. Action, comedy, drama, musical, spiritual. I think this is why it appealed to so many people. Such an epic.
Thank you!
One of my very favorite movies ever... I saw it at the theater when it first came out, and have seen it at least 20 times since then. I knew a lot of the items covered in this video because I have watched videos about making the film and have read a lot about it also. In the scene where Jake and Elwood go to recruit Matt "Guitar" Murphy, one of Aretha's back-up singers was her younger sister Carolyn. The beauty salon where Carrie Fisher worked was called "Curl Up and Dye". In the scene where Jake and Elwood eat at the fancy restaurant to recruit "Mr. Fabulous" (Alan Rubin), their waiter was Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman) in an early film role. In the car chase at the end, a brief view of the Bluesmobile's speedo reads 115mph. Yeah, I love this movie!
A few years after it came out, my dad sold pianos and electronic stuff and he made me watch BB on full size laser disk in the store. Loved it ever since
6:23 Belushi was well known for this habit, inspiring the 4th Season SNL trailer for horror film "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave." One of my all time favorites, a love letter to Chicago that ended Mayor Daley's Lower Wacker film ban, and the best SNL film.
Supposedly, Dan and John got a meeting with Mayor Byrne, and they considered just having Dan go into her office.
Excellent, thanks for making this!
An iconic and influential movie to us RAF chaps in the 80's.
lol, I had this on different formats ever since it came out and Blu-ray Theatrical-extended version is superb! My children who weren't even born yet sure loved it years later when I would always play it, a staple in my home. A gem that will never be forgotten...I' think I'll watch it this long weekend?
Saw this at the Theater when it came out.
Mistake. It was Toronto Canada where Balushi wondered into someone’s house. It was during the mall scene. Someone had to go find him. The mall was in Toronto as well.