THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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- THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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What someone should have told you before you started the movie is that "everyone" in the movie, even with a small cameo part and a couple of the extras, is famous. All star cast. Even the guitar and bass player in the Blues Brothers band - Steve Cropper and Donal Duck Dunn from Booker T and the MGs. Chaka Khan was in the choir, Joe Walsh from The Eagles jumps on a table and dances in the final prison scene. And John Lee Hooker singing in the street scene. The leader of the Illinois Nazis was a famous comedian, Henry Gibson, from the television show Laugh In. And Cab Calloway from the Cotton Club!!! And Twiggy in the convertible sports car!! Most famous model from the 60s. And factually the biggest car chase scene ever in a movie.
Also the prison guy at the start was Frank Oz the voice and operator of Yoda and the guy at the end who they paid was Steven Speilberg
Frank Oz is the man of a thousand voices... Yoda, Miss Piggy, Grover, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam the Eagle,...
You forgot Frank Oz,the cop who let him out at the beginning.
Also Steven Spielberg at the end who processes the payment.
Don't forget Ray Charles as the pawn shop owner, and Aretha Franklin as the diner owner.
I watched this movie with my daughter when she was about 14. After the James Brown scene she said "I want to go to a church like that!" and I said "Baby, everyone wants to go to a church like that"
I had a similar experience with my mother! I had never been to church and asked my mom (raised in the Mormon Church) if church was like that? She said, “If it was, I’d go back in a heartbeat.”
I’ve always loved the line,”We’ve got both kinds, Country and Western”😅
So, so, so HORRIBLE, yet funny all the same. I get shivers up my spine every time I hear it.
My personal favorite detail was how they were immune to damage or capture because they truly were on a "mission from God." Every single thing holds to that until it's no longer needed. Right up until the end, no enemy can catch or harm them. Their car doesn't give out until they're literally outside their destination to pay the $5,000, despite clearly pulling off impossible feats the entire movie. And the cuffs aren't put on them until a second after the payment receipt is stamped.
I love that you got that... the power of God cannot be denied and God`s will be done, all wrapped up in a comedy. Peace and brother love to you and all.
The singer who sang Minnie the Moocher was the legendary Cab Calloway III.
Also, as much as I LOVE this movie, I get a little sad when I realize how many of the cast, the band and the cameos are no longer with us.
Figured this was your movie, since yall did Cab Calloway reaction
It is sad how many artists we have lost, but this film immortalizes their performances.
Ya'll have reacted to Cab Calloway & the Nicholas Brothers. The one thar sang Minnie the Moocher.
I named my dog Minnie the Moocher, because my former dog Heidi loved it when I sang her that song. My other dog is named Belushi. Can you guess my favorite movie?
Cab sang in several Bette Boop cartoons from the 30's
If anyone's interested, "Blue Lou" Marini (the fry cook) is alive and well and still killing it. I saw him a month ago playing for James Taylor. Incredible musician.
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and donald "duck" dunn is on like 509 jazz albums. this cast was stacked
And he is EVERYWHERE... if you watch a band with a sax player... gray hair/gray moustache... it is Blue Lou.... and a graduate of the University of North Texas (used to be North Texas State University) and member of the NTSU 1 O'Clock Lab Band.....
He was in the Lincoln center Led Zepplin tribute in Stairway to Heaven with Heart too
@@markmyers6472 Tom Malone (trombone player) played with Lou Marini in the One O'Clock Lab Band at North Texas.
"This is car 55. We're in a truck."
Best line in movie history ever.
Dan Akroyd loved the blues, and this movie was a love letter to all these musicians he respected deeply and thought deserved their flowers at a time when the US was in the midst of the metal backlash against the disco and R&B of the 70s. As everyone else has said, they're _all_ famous. The cameos in this movie are legendary. Everything about this movie is legendary. They _actually_ dropped a car out of the sky. They held the world record for most vehicles destroyed in a chase scene for a long time, too. This movie was my introduction to the blues, and the beginning of my love for it, and it is still, hands down, the best cheer up movie for a bad day in my book. Always happy to see new people enjoying it for the first time! And seriously, just go buy the whole soundtrack.
John Belushi did to thats why they started the group.
That Pinto was FAA Approved even!
@@Phantomsbreath I read about this on another reactor's channel from another commenter - if I recall correctly, in order to drop a car from that altitude, it literally HAS be checked out by the FAA. Exactly WHY something that is NOT flying. Is not DESIGNED to fly. Is - in fact - going to drop like a stone - would need FAA Clearance was unclear to me. At a guess - it may have more to do with the "airworthiness" of the Pinto as it's slung under the helicopter BEFORE it's dropped? (Shrug)
I think the most interesting part of this movie is that there was no CGI involved in this movie. The mall scene was them driving through a mall. The back flips and dancing were done by the actors.
Fun fact, the movie that broke the car record was blues brothers 2000 and it still holds that record
John Belushi found all the original artists for each song they recorded for this and three albums and transferred all the profits and royalties to them. This movie revitalized a lot of thier careers and reawakened america to check out blues. It also created the chain of House of Blues music halls
I'm for all those that John Belushi did to help their careers and helped the three albums and transferred all the profits and royalties to them. It really makes me feel good to see John Belushi was doing this movie to help others besides himself. Thanks for sharing that information.
@@angelacarleton9575 there's an issue of Rolling Stone filled with these stories in a tribute to his life. He was a humble and generous person that shone a little too bright
@@angelacarleton9575 John genuinely fell in love with the blues after meeting a local blues singer in Oregon while filming Animal House. This was all about love for the music and keeping it alive ❤
@@osovagabundo1 I love this comment, so many people just see him as a sleezy drug addict and he was so much more than that ❤
its people from the original SNL band
1. "She Caught the Katy" The Blues Brothers with lead vocals by Jake Blues 4:10
2. "Peter Gunn Theme" The Blues Brothers Band 3:46
3. "Gimme Some Lovin'" The Blues Brothers with lead vocals by Jake Blues 3:06
4. "Shake a Tail Feather" Ray Charles with the Blues Brothers (Jake and Elwood, backing vocals) 2:48
5. "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" The Blues Brothers (Jake Blues, lead vocals; Elwood Blues, harmonica and vocals) 3:21
6. "The Old Landmark" James Brown and the Rev. James Cleveland Choir (additional choir vocals by Chaka Khan credited in the film) 2:56
7. "Think" Aretha Franklin & the Blues Brothers with backing vocals by Brenda Corbett, Margaret Branch, Carolyn Franklin, Jake, and Elwood 3:13
8. "Theme from Rawhide" Elwood, Jake, and the Blues Brothers Band 2:37
9. "Minnie the Moocher" Cab Calloway with the Blues Brothers Band 3:23
10. "Sweet Home Chicago" The Blues Brothers with lead vocals by Jake Blues (dedicated to the musician Magic Sam) 7:48
11. "Jailhouse Rock" Jake Blues & the Blues Brothers (Over the closing credits in the film, verses are sung by James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and "crew")
Thanks for taking the time to put this list in!!!
Where's John Lee Hooker's number before they visit Ray Charles?
The blues riff at the start in prison is "Somebody Loan Me a Dime" by Fenton Robinson, and John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen" is used twice in the film.
There was a fourth song performed at Bob's Country Bunker but it was removed from the final cut, the band played "Sink the Bismarck".
legend for typing it out i was about to do it haha
Just realised this list is just the soundtrack so it's missing "Boom Boom" by John Lee Hooker, "Soothe Me" and "Hold On, I'm Coming" by Sam and Dave, "Quando, Quando, Quando" and "Just the Way You Are" by Murph and the Magictones, "Stand By Your Man" performed by the Blues Brothers...ok I could keep listing songs all day but I have to go to work, there's a lot more 😅
The movie's director, John Landis, said that he wanted to create a car chase that was "bigger and better" than anything that had been seen before. He also wanted to show the Blues Brothers as being "outlaws" who were willing to do whatever it took to get what they wanted. The car chase scene in "The Blues Brothers" is now considered to be one of the most iconic car chases in movie history.
This movie will never get old. John is still missed so much. It was so sad losing him. No matter how many time you see it, it never gets old. The greats in this movie are amazing.
It is a classic
Please watch “Animal House” John Belushi was a giant talent we lost way too young.
I love Animal House!
Classic!
YES! Please react the Animal House!
The "Theme to Rawhide" was the actual theme to the tv western classic (1959 to 1965) that made a star out of a very young Clint Eastwood.
Well, Clint Eastwood became a star with Sergio Leone's western movies, after Rawhide
I watch rawhide every Saturday with my husband at breakfast.
Am I the only person who loves the RAWHIDE theme? 😃🙄😃
@@robyfiorili He became a movie star and international star with the Sergio Leone movies, but Rawhide got up to the #6th most watched show in the country in 1960-61, so still think he became a star as far as American audiences go.
Definitely not a musical star though.
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The ultimate irony: blues music and country music have shared roots. One of the most successful blues songs ever, "Move Int On Over," was written by Hank Williams, one of the fathers of country music.
Also, the Blues Brothers Band is LEGIT made up of some very fine musicians. They aren’t just actors pretending to play. Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Alan Rubin, Lou Marini …. Those guys are serious players for real. Highly respected in music circles.
RIP DUCK
Tom "Bones" Malone, Blue Lou Marini, Willie "Too Big" Hall, Matt Guitar Murphy, Murphy Dunn
The Stax Records house band, AKA the MGs of Booker and the MGs. Played the instruments on hundreds of records in some combination or another.
Duck was a huge influence on my playing.
One of the best films ever to see in a theater.
Oh, Aretha. Seeing her in this movie was a shock. Her stage presence was always really big, with huge glittery outifts and big-ass hats. She was THERE on stage, so seeing here like this - no makeup, no costume, no HAT - singing in a dingy diner took some mental downsizing! But as soon as she started singing, WOW. The Queen Of Everything, Ever and Ever.
Oh, okay. They could've done it like a dream sequence but maybe they didn't have time or it was Aretha's Choice to do it that way.
poor horn player, he worked hard so learn the step the back up singers were doing, then got cut because he was too high on the diners counter
One of my favorite scenes in the movie!!!!
And here she was wearing a stained waitress dress, and slip-on slippers.
@@knoahbody69 No, it was in the script. It's part of the story. You know, the plot of the movie?
This movie is a damn classic. This was back when SNL had the most talented comedians, and the fact that they got so many blues titans to cameo (and play main parts!) and sing and play just makes this movie such a fun experience. They don't make them like this anymore.
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd were phenomenal and Belush's talents were far beyond his time. These classic movies and actors will NEVER be DUPLICATED! Miss this unique entertainment.
This was the first R-rated movie my parents let us kids watch. It's still a firm favorite of everyone in my family -- my brother, uncle and I just watched it for about the thousandth time a couple of weeks ago. It's a classic!
Fun fact: Carrie Fisher was engaged to Dan Ackroyd when they were filming the movie.
The cop was the late great John Candy
The old man who performed Minnie the Moocher could legit be called a "OG" - he was one of the first people to do scat - Cab Calloway. He is so fundamental to so much modern music - he started in the 1920s. If Cab had not been around there never would been a Prince or a Micheal Jackson. Another neat fact - at the end of Cab's life, Micheal Jackson covered all his medical bills.
Magician/Stuntman Jonathan Pendragon did the backflips in the Church Service for John Bulushi.This movie is a wonderful historic record for future generations to see the greatest Blues Musicans of this era. Sadly, some are already gone but they will live forever through this movie.
I was on my honeymoon in Eugene, Oregon at this beautiful hotel. We went down for dinner and they had a show and it was the Blues Brothers. They were testing out their act before they did it on SNL. So much fun.
Watch Trains Planes and Automobiles. One of the best John Candy movies with Steve Martin. It’s a Thanksgiving movie, perfect timing to queue it up in a couple of months!
I just thought of this movie last night when I was in the airport Parking lot and heard a train nearby, lol
Those aren’t pillows!
no, but i do have 2 dollars and a casio...
We laughed so much the first time we saw PTA!
@@williamswiniuch7527 How bout them bears?
Fun fact: the officer in the opening scene that returns Jake’s property is none other than the great and powerful Frank Oz. Director of “Analize This” “The Score” and many others. He has cameos in all of John Landis’s movies. He is most famous as voice actor of several Muppet and Sesame Street characters as well as the voice of Yoda in Star Wars. There is a reference to Miss Piggy at a toy store. Frank Oz also does the voice of Miss Piggy
Oz directed Little Shop of Horrors - another must see!!
He has an awesome cameo as the estate lawyer in Knives Out.
Fozzie Bear & Yoda as well, which was hilarious to me as a small boy since I'd watched a ton of the muppet show before seeing yoda for the first time in empire and instantly recognised the voice.
He also did the voice Grover, the toy the customer was holding
I hate to nitpick, but Harold Ramis was the director of “Analyze This”. Frank Oz did direct “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, “Bowfinger”, and “Little Shop of Horrors” as well as “The Score”
The little kid reaching for the guitar is De'voreaux White who would later play Argyle in Die Hard, the character that drives the limo with Bruce Willis around.
The bandleader in white was Cab Calloway - you reviewed his song “Jumpin’ Jive” with the amazing dancers The Nicholas Brothers from 1943’s Stormy Weather… so amazing! Oh, and the big blond guy with the cops was John Candy - a really great comedian in his own right.
I was wondering why they said they didn't know him lol
For non-motorheads......when an engine "throws a rod", it breaks a connecting rod. A connecting rod connects the piston to the crankshaft. The rod is usually sent sideways through the block, shooting out oil and sometimes coolant with it. They were running on 7 cylinders and losing oil. But, they were on a mission from god, so they made it.
No, they were on a mission from"Gyad".
:Ga'ad"
Teach!
Wait, I thought that "throwing a rod," referred to the rod that is pushed up by the cam that lifts a rocker arm. It gets shot through the valve cover.
@@leewriter4656 That is a push rod. I have only seen those drill their way through the rocker arm and stay there, because they moved beyond the reach of the valve lifter. Lobe lift seldom exceeds .338" on a stock engine from the time period. Pretty short throw, compared to a 3.75" stroke crankshaft, moving at 2X the speed of the camshaft.
Dan Ackroyd and producer John Landis , kept blues alive with this film and kept guys in work as blues artists throughout the world through the 80s and into the 90s . That is the legacy of the film, they did it again in 2000 God bless um
Dan also opened the House of Blues, restaurants that continue that great traditions of rhythm and blues music.
@@vapoet Absolutely, well said
@@vapoet He also did a House of Blues radio show to showcase great Blues.
They did more than keep it alive, they brought American Blues back to life.
@@beaux2585 That's the problem with the F.. internet Go back and read my post again or ask someone to explain it to you.
My favorite Dan Aykroyd quote is:
"Some people say that going to college, and going on in life and doing something different than what one studied in college was a waste of your college years.
Well, I studied Criminology, Sociology, Deviant Psychology, Abnormal Psychology and, uh, and then I went into show business." -Dan Aykroyd
The blues brothers have the number one selling blues album to this day. Briefcase full of blues. They also revitalized a bunch of classic artists that were forgotten. Amazing movie.
Jay, the actor you thought was Jim Belushi was actually the fabulous John Candy! Another comedian we lost far too early. You guys will LOVE Planes, Trains and Automobiles. One of John Candy's best movies, though he had a number of great ones.
Every time I watch that movie I laugh until my jaws hurt.
Then I keep laughing.
Please please PLEASE do this movie for Thanksgiving! I mean, I know life is crazy around holidays, so a week before, week after, hey it's all good. But you'll love it to pieces.
Uncle Buck
SCTV
"Sorry folks, the park's closed! The moose out front should have told you. "
"Take this quarter, go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face!"
Two of the greatest Candy lines ever.
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING about this movie is genius. Arguably one of the best films in American cinema history
You speak great truth. This movie revitalized the careers of many great musicians and singers. It was far more than the sum of its parts.
Hard to believe it's been 42 years.....
@@xaenon they were on a mission from God.
Jesus. It's tedious. I'll grant that it's a showcase of stars, but the rest is tedious.
@@bobbabai you're deluded
So much reality in this - the mall was real (it was no longer open, but was a real mall), Maxwell Street was real (that market was shut down decades back, but the scene was accurate) - and shot without a permit. The prison is still standing, and is used in the Joliet minor league team's intros. This movie is as much a love letter to Chicago as to the blues and the musicians in the movie.
Jake: "How often do the trains come by?"
Elwood: "So often you won't even notice."
The Blues Brothers, started by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, began as a SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE sketch, incorporating the SNL band, then lead by Paul Schaffer. After the success of ANIMAL HOUSE (1978), Universal was looking to capitalize on John Belushi and John Landis, and they came to them with THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980) written by Dan.
The boys and the band were real musicians and great fans of the blues, and this was their way of giving back to the music and artist they loved by featuring them, and in some cases (Like Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway) reviving their careers.
It was the most expensive comedy ever made, at its time, costing $22 million dollars, and holds the record for the most cars crashed in a film.
And the less said about the 1998 sequel the better
@@RB01.10 The sequel is not good but the music in it is.
I remember the original bee outfits... Ray-Ban Wayfarers are better.... ;-)
@@RB01.10 Admittedly the sequel was not a good movie, but it did have some really good music in it.
This movie has one of my favorite lines ever. "How often does the train go by?" "So often you won't even notice it."
And it's true. Over the years I have lived near train tracks and you get used to the sound. If you pay attention you can tell the difference between passenger & freight but mostly it's just background noise. lol
It's like being in the RAF. You get to sleep through the 0200 take off and landings, cuz you get so used to the noise.
My favorite: it’s a 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!
One of the best movies of all time if you're looking to laugh. Such a cast. Amazing soundtrack. Funny story! Thanks for watching and reacting to this one...
These two started this act on Saturday Night Live. It was so popular that they branched out into this campy movie. There are mutiple cameos of famous people in this movie.
Forever grateful for the Minnie the Moocher sequence that showcases the legendary Cab Calloway in high fidelity but also having the phenomenal trumpet of Alan Rubin in this mix is another gem as well...The musicianship of the Blues Brothers is on full display in this film which is more than a comedy with Police car chases.
He's so iconic, they had to talk him into doing Minnie The Moocher and the Zoot suit because he thought that that was too old fashioned and in the past.
@@Eis_Bear Really? I've never heard that. Can you provide a credible source for that claim?
@@BobSoltis1 John Landis talks about it in the 2012 documentary "Cab Calloway: Sketches". Cab wanted to do his 'modern' Disco version of the song, which was released just prior to the start of shooting. He and Landis had a bit of an argument over it, in the end he did the classic version but wasn't really happy about it.
@@Eis_Bear - Thanks for the info!
I recently learned that Cab was Ja'net Dubois's father.
"Orange Whip? Orange whip? Three Orange Whips!" - John Candy
Steve Cropper was the A and R guy on and co writer of Dock of the Bay. He gave Ottis Redding his break. He was part of Booker T and the MGs
ALL of the musicians and singers in this movie are world class and legends in their area, style and instruments.
Yes they are
The thing I love about this film is that Elwood is right. They ARE on a mission from God. From the moment they accept the calling at the church, nothing touches them. No matter how crazy the situation, they escape it, until they get the money in and get the receipt, THEN they get caught! LOL
Well said.. I never quite thought of it like that.. thanks!
Not only that, but how many movies are there where people say they're on a Mission from God, and DON'T KILL ANYONE! (the nazi's did it to themselves)
Correct. And God is Cab Calloway.
@Raylan Givens Yes. The Pope declared it rich with 'Christian values'.
I'm not a believer, but the fact that the Vatican gave it the proverbial thumbs up just floored me.
"I would pay to see this band!" As anyone should; that band was full of legends.
1. 'She Caught the Katy' - The Blues Brothers
2. 'Peter Gunn Theme' - The Blues Brothers Band
3. 'Gimme Some Lovin'' - The Blues Brothers
4. 'Shake a Tail Feather' - Ray Charles and the Blues Brothers
5. 'Everybody Needs Somebody to Love' - The Blues Brothers
6. 'The Old Landmark' - James Brown
7. 'Think' - Aretha Franklin and The Blues Brothers
8. 'Theme from Rawhide' - The Blues Brothers
9. 'Minnie the Moocher' - Cab Calloway and The Blues Brothers Band
10. 'Sweet Home Chicago' - The Blues Brothers
11. 'Jailhouse Rock' - The Blues Brothers (the film version has verses by James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Cab Calloway)
The film also had songs by Sam & Dave, Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker and Louis Jordan.
Another movie with a killer sound-track is "The Committments" (1991). Without any spoilers, I will just say that it is a "music / band" movie with some memorable personalities and soulful MoTown covers.
Great shout 😊
Young Einstein has another brilliant soundtrack.
Rawhide TV series 1959..... early role for Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates
1980 was a great year, the year I graduated high school. “The Blues Brothers”, “Caddyshack”, and “Airplane!”
Same!!
I graduated in ‘81 and my high school years were filled with some of the best movies ever! Classics!
The Empire Strikes Back.
Chicago! Still has a drawbridge or two over the river. The Aretha Franklin diner scene is worth the price of admission. This all grew out of Dan and John's shared love of blues music, an SNL skit they created, and the rest is history. They toured as the Blues Brothers, and even put out an album. The heavy set guy is John Candy, not Jim Belushi, and the bandleader is Cab Calloway.
I was first introduced to Jake and Elwood by my late cousin around 1985 when I'd bought some replica B+L Wayfarers, she asked me "who'd you think you are? The Blues Brothers?". To this day, one of my favourite, go to, albums is "Briefcase Full Of Blues", not to mention this movie was the first time I heard many Blues classics - " Hold on, I'm comin'", "Can't turn you loose", and others. I think this movie held a long time record for the most cars destroyed in a movie.
I think I’ve watched this movie over a hundred times. It never gets old. Glad to see younger people enjoy it.
The only movie I've seen more times is Back to the Future
@@MortenSjgren Animal House is second to the Blues Brothers, then Caddy Shack as to seen the most times... Die Hard, and then all of Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns
That was Sam and Dave
It's too bad we lost John Belushi at such a young age. He was a star on the original Saturday Night Live program that started in the mid-1970s. One other movie that I loved him in was a Steven Spielberg film called "1941." It made me laugh so much I was almost in pain at the end of the movie. Unfortunately, 1941 was considered to be a flop and it's rarely shown - but I LOVED it!
I LOVE 1941..........Belushi is absolutely manic in it.the movie is absolutely crazy but its so watchable because you are literally constantly wondering just what on earth is going to happen next......
HOLLYWOOOOOD!!!!
Don't forget his performance in "Animal House"
Dan Akroyd too was a star on SNL.
I freaking love 1941 !! Even Spielberg himself won’t sand up for it 😏 Great film
I’m so glad to see that new people are watching this classic movie for so many reasons. The first SNL movie (when it actually was a good show with talented people on it), the comedy is gold, the music is actually done by real musicians (😮), etc. This was one of my dad’s favorites, and ages like wine
Such a wonderfully funny movie. Jay's reaction to Carrie Fisher being in the movie was PRICELESS!!! I first saw this at Princeton University hosted by a student organization.
This movie has too many favorite bits to recount, but from the moment the Penguin floated back into her office I was hooked. The church scene where you see all those people fanning themselves, brings back memories before many churches could afford central air conditioning. We had those fans in the pews, often with advertisements on them (mostly funeral parlors). And I love Aretha Franklin's response to the "we're on a mission from God" statement. She yells, "Don't you blaspheme in here! DON'T you BLASPHEME!" Watching this with y'all, so many lines from this movie show up in my conversation. Something on TV mentioned "country music" and I immediately said, "We've go both kinds: Country AND Western."
One of the most unexpected funny moments was after they took off from Bob's bar and the real "Good Old Boys" get into Bob's truck in pursuit of the Blues Brothers. If you look closely you can see the eyes of some "Good Old Boys" in the bed section of the camper on back of Bob's pickup. I saw that and burst out laughing so hard I was crying. For that to really happen, the guys would have to be standing up, leaning into the window.
The best musical comedy ever made. I don't know if it will EVER be possible again to bring together so so many musical superstars into one hilarious film. Enjoy it because you'll never see its like again
When they tried to make the sequel.....well...it didn't really work did it? The only joke I thought was mildly humorous was John Popper getting repeatedly blown off by Elwood. If it was banjos, it'd be exactly like Steve Martin in a comic role telling Earl Scruggs to "hey get lost old man".
@@professornuke7562 although Steve Martin does play a mean banjo in his own write. The only banjo player I have ever seen that's fast the Earl Scruggs is Mean Mary... ua-cam.com/video/6CNB5OLUPM0/v-deo.html
When Can Calloway first performed Minnie the Moocher (in 1931) he forgot the chorus, so he did The Hidee Hidee Ho bit. It went over so well, he just kept it in there
My dad saw him do it in Harlem in ‘38!
Wow! I have performed Minnie the Moocher probably 30-40 times. I did it with a live band on a Carnival Cruise ship, when they used to have the passenger lack of talent night. I had 1600 people singing hidee hidee hidee ho..it was great. Everybody loves that song
Dan Aykroyd was and still is a massive blues fan, and is friends with darned near everyone in the genre. When he and John Belushi were in Saturday Night Live, he'd play blues records and eventually, after meeting some other blues artists, John was hooked. Their first skit as blues singers had them dressed up in bee costumes. The Blues Brothers were more than just a fictional band; they toured together and recorded a number of albums. Dan is still a blues man, and up until 2018 he had a nationally syndicated radio program called Elwood's BluesMobile, which he recorded in character. He had all the blues greatest as guests, and sometimes featured up-and-coming new talent.
My mom came home one day and pulled out the full blues brother album. I was in awe because the vinyl itself was brand new. The plastic wrapper was still on it. The record itself is an electric blue. I didn’t ask her how she found it and I still don’t question it. I’m just glad we have it in our house.
Yes! This was THE hot summer movie! I lived in Joliet at the time and for years afterwards you could see stacks of trashed cop cars at a salvage yard on I-55. My sophomore English teacher was an extra - he played a soldier. Love this film, so much awesomeness.
Born and raised in Joliet myself! I went to St. Francis Academy (sister school to Joliet Catholic, since joined together and went co-ed), class of ‘84. Our Homecoming theme that fall of 1980 was “We’re on a mission from God.”
Funny thing is that I added more connections to this film after going to college at Marquette. The father of one of my dorm roommates was a Mt. Prospect cop whose old car was used as one of the Bluesmobiles, and my drama professor played the shorter of the two guards to escort Jake across the Collins Street prison-his name, Gerald Walling, SJ, is directly above Belushi’s in the end credits.
Saw this in the theater at Louis Joliet Mall in 1980 - when the prison was shown with “Joliet Illinois” subtitled the packed theater erupted in joy.
@@peterandjunko Yep and yep! The first time I heard that reaction was when my family went to the Rialto Theatre downtown in 1973 and saw The Sting. When the date/place card came on screen saying, “1936-Joliet, Illinois,” the crowd went wild.
There was an Illinois Police Dept. that was already in the process of replacing their entire fleet with new vehicles, thus making all of those old models available to be trashed.
@@kathyastrom1315 i went to Catholic High, class of 1983.
I can't think of any movie that does such a good job of low-key showcasing so many people that laid the foundation for American music the last 70 years or so. Just such a joy to watch.
21:45 --- I miss that sound.. Big V 8 engines sucking a whole room full of air when you nailed the throttle and all four barrels opened wide...🔧
This was the first movie out of the SNL crew Most of the band was from the show and it's one of the best movies ever
The street dancing while Ray Charles is singing highlights the point that in the 60s there was a new dance craze almost every week. You had to get to know each one as it came out so you could look cool showing it off on Friday and Saturday night at the dance hall. As for the magical car tricks, there was a deleted scene where Elwood is shown parking the car in a shed housing a big electrical transformer which is powering the elevated trains. The suggestion is that the car draws energy from the transformer which allows it to perform the unreal stunts.
This movie was actually super important at reintroducing classic blues and R&B artists to the world. In 1980, most of the artists who got cameos in this film were really brought back to pop culture after a decade or more of being forgotten.
Yeah, the Blues Brothers as an act was started on SNL by John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd. Some were critical about the two white men "culturally appropriating" Black Music, but they popularized Otis Redding and other hardcore blues acts. Michael Jackson, Prince, Cee Lo Green, and Bruno Mars are heavily influenced by James Brown, Arethra Franklin, and Cab Calloway.
As an Englishman this film was my education on rhythm & Blues music
Louis Jordan did "Let the Good times roll" he was a real pioneer of blues, older rhythm and blues, jazz, and what would become soul, and early rock and roll.
One of the (many) great things about this film is that it featured almost EVERY form of music; from rock, to blues, soul, county, classical and more - even elevator music!
But NO Caribbean.
Country _and_ Western.
The backing band, Cropper, Murphy, Dunn, all those guys were in and out of the Memphis Horns and Booker T and the MGs. They were the session musicians on some of the most famous blues, soul, and R and B records for decades.
Some great musicians and blues singers in this movie. These were actual musicians
I cannot ever pass this movie by when channel surfing…no matter where in the movie it is! Love it! My Cousin Vinnie references come up in conversations all the time. Glad you got to react to it💜💫
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Steve Martin and John Candy
They also sang the ultimate country song Stand By Your Man by 70’s Country Superstar Tammy Wynette she’s mostly known to sing with another country superstar George Jones
Y'all need to do some Tammy Wynette on your music station. Some of her other big hits (beside Stand By Your Man) are D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Apartment #9, Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad, and I Don't Wanna Play House. She was married for a time to George Jones and they puts out a lot of duets together.
"Stand by Your Man", voted the #1 County song of all time by the assembled members of the Grand Ol' Opry.
Amber - You need todo Tammy Wynette for FF
might as well go full late 80's/ early 90's.... KLF with Tammy Wynette singing Justified and Ancient .. great song
Lived overseas for 5 years. Played The Blues Brothers once per month to stay grounded to Chicago. The children loved the music and the dancing.
Our over seas house keeper thought all USA churches were like James Brown's church. Although she always sang her native language songs and had no common history with the USA, several times i heard humming Minni the Moocher. Once i came home from work early and she had the movie playing even though the family had been shopping in the city for hours. The music speaks to people.
I have no idea how many times I've seen this movie! it is so good just for the soundtrack alone and at one point it held the record for the most crashed cars in a movie. I don't know if that still holds true but the sequel is worth a look as well for another great soundtrack
I love it when the younger generation discovers classic gold like this.
Steve Cropper was the dude who wrote “Knock on Wood” and “Midnight Hour” and co-wrote “Soul Man” and “Sitting at the Dock of the Bay”. Pure royalty here.
Damn- I had no idea! And to think teen me saw him and Duck backing up Otis in Monterey!
He was also on Booker T and the MGs, who did the song “Green Onions.”
One of the greatest all round films ever made. It should be required viewing at least once in your life.
Glad you guys loved it. It is one of my favorite movies of all time.
I saw the Blues Brothers in concert August 1, 1980 while on vacation in CA. Just by luck the concierge at our hotel had 2 tickets and couldn’t go and sold them to us at face value. Since March of 1969, 9 days before my 13 birthday, I have been to 191 concerts from every genre, and their show was by far the most entertaining and memorable. Their interaction with the audience and one another was spot on. In character the entire show. John really did cartwheels. And Dan really can play the harmonica that well.
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That's awesome. That story makes my heart smile!
Oh, I envy you for that...
Saw them in Denver that same year. They were amazing and, yes, Belushi did cartwheels ,
The song at 10:41 is “Sooth me” by Sam and Dave fallowed by “Hold on! I’m a comin’” (one of my favorite songs), also by Sam and Dave. 16:35 is “Let the good times roll” by Louis Jordan. 22:15 “Boom Boom” actually performed by John Lee Hooker. 26:36 “Boogie Chillen” also by John Lee Hooker. 28:02 “Your cheatin’ heart” by Kitty Wells. 34:03 “I’m walkin’” by Fats Domino.
"Hold on! I'm a comin'" is such an amazing song.
Sam and Dave were part of the Memphis sound from Stax Records. "Play it, Steve" from the song "Soul Man" was said to Steve Cropper, the bearded guy in the band of this movie. "Duck" Dunn played bass in the band, and the Stax band agreed to a tour of Europe in '67 in part because they could get 2 free suits.
This is one of my favorite movie reactions I’ve seen. You two do a great job !!
One of the great movies, watched this classic at the drive-in in 1982 and I've seen it 100 times since then
Back in the 80's, a group of us got together and decided this was the movie we'd put in a time capsule under "Comedy", because they really touched on every variation of comedy there is. There's subtle jokes, outrageous jokes, over the top jokes, action jokes. One of my all time favorites is when the Nazi driver turns to the Nazi leader when they're falling from the sky and says "I've always loved you." You know you're going to die, and these are the last words you'll hear on earth.
The nazis that wore those particular uniforms were called "Brown Shirts". They were massacred by the SS in an event called "The night of long knives". One of the reasons was their leader, Ernst Rohm, was said to be homosexual and Hitler didn't want them playing a prominent role in the Third Reich. Whether that was true or not is a matter of controversy. Homosexuals were also rounded up like The Jews, and forced to wear a pink triangle like The Jews had to wear a yellow Star of David.
@@knoahbody69 It's True!
For me, it’s Animal House and Some Like it Hot that go in the time capsule. But no argument if you put BB’s in there
And they were driving a Pinto! So funny! 🤣
Yeah it's a peak line in a movie full of em.
I know every line, every scene every song and every dance move. I still do the dances to this day since I first saw it on the big screen.
Hell of a sound track to one hell of a movie. The band and half the side characters were the top flight Blues and Soul musicians of the day.
I was 12 years old when in 1980 I kept nagging my parents to allow me to go see a movie because Princess Leia was in. They allowed me to go see it on my own... And from the very opening notes of Matt "Guitar" Murphy droning that A# and the section coming in The Blues Brothers changed my life. I took a hammer to m piggy bank that very night and bought the soundtrack the next day. I took up guitar lessons a week after and to this day 40 years later I'm still playing the blues. So thank Carrie Fisher for taking that role, without her I'd have become a square.
This movie was credited with helping kick start the blues revival - and that led to a lot of the music being put on CDs when they became available years later.
The Blues Brothers survived all those car chases because they were On a Mission from God. That's why the Bluesmobile didn't die until they no longer needed it.
You can find the soundtrack on YT.
Yup, why they survived the bazooka, flame thrower and full magazine from a machine gun.
@@jeffreywillis4258 Fully automatic rifle, NOT a "machine gun". There's a difference.
In the end prison scene, right after Joe Walsh is seen for the second time dancing on the table, the great Blues guitarist Buddy Guy can be seen dancing.
I loved your reaction, it was like watching it for the first time with old friends. This is my favorite movie of all time. My late father introduced me to it when I was a kid(we LOVE music) so it holds a special place in my heart. SO many legends in this movie. Been watching a couple of your reactions and it's fun. Subscribed!
Gotta love that Steven Spielberg cameo at the end. I absolutely love this film.
Thank You guys, for making me and my wife feel really OLD!! I'm 73 and she is 67, and we both were smiling and laughing at you two guys reactions. Priceless!!! Not knowing some, if not most of the Musicians/Stars. Being so young (to us you are young) and not knowing things that we just take for granted at our age was a great trip down memory lane. THANK YOU! LOVE you guys
This movie was so big in my younger years that my friends and I did the Blues Brothers "Soul Man" for our school air guitar. I was also with a group of friends that did USA for Africa's "We Are The World". They were by far the best performances in the entire show. Fun times.
My favorite movie of all time. I actually remember seeing it as a kid at the drive-in. So much fun to see you both enjoy it so much!
The church scene is exactly as I remember it when I was growing up. My eldest sister was one of the nurses always present in case the Holy Ghost entered someone's body. This was back in the day when you went to Sunday School/Church on Sunday and Bible Study every Wednesday night. The church also prepared free lunches for kids during the summer. Man, I miss those days.😔
The Blues Brothers was a top notch band with Jake and Elwood fronting. They started as a skit on Saturday Night Live, back when it was worth watching. And they just grew from there. They had a massive album they put out, Briefcase Full of Blues which i had and loved.
The first song the BB played that got them shut down at Bob's Country Bunker is called Gimme Some Loving, written by Steve Winwood and Traffic from an album called "BLUES in F".
I had a friend in grade school whose mother worked at Dixie Square Mall in Harvey (before it was destroyed, of course). It closed in 1980, but John Landis (the director) had ONE more use for it. :)
And the Illinois Nazi scene was poignant at the time, because the REAL American Nazi Party had just won a First Amendment case to march through Skokie (which is a primarily Jewish suburb of Chicago).
This was a reaction I have been waiting for.
I grew up the town over from Harvey...it was always so much fun seeing that scene. Growing up in Chicago this movie has legendary status for us
Unfortunately I remember when the Nazis marched on Skokie, and there WAS a big crowd that turned out against them. The Nazis looked pitiful and small compared to the crowd who showed up to stand against them.
@@lifeandfaith ; for more insight, check out the song "Mob Clash" by Chicago punk icons The Effigies.
Forget everything else, Cab Calloway getting to perform "Minnie the Moocher" once more in his old age was the true gift this movie gave to us. Aretha was starting her rise. Ray Charles had just peaked. But this was Cab's last great chance to show us what he was all about.
"Their demeanor is just so funny to me, that's why I like it." Yeah. The whole "Blues Brothers" thing originally started as a musical skit on Saturday Night Live from the very first season, and somehow it was both funny and awesome at the same time, so it worked somehow.
Yeah, there's a lot of us who would have paid to see the Blues Brothers in concerts. But that's not a thing for any amount of money.
Cab Calloway is seemingly God or an angel in this film. What a perfect choice for God in a musicians movie.