Product Description

A film that stands up to repeated viewing is complemented by an album that has the same effect. The musical stars make cameos to perform one track each, Aretha as the waitress in a diner tears into 'Think' while Cab Calloway dons his best white suit for a spectacular 'Minnie The Moocher'. The 'brothers' are supported by most of Booker T. And The MGs and they deliver some rousing numbers including a bottle-throwing 'Rawhide' and a loose 'Gimme Some Lovin''. Aykroyd and Belushi could have become the Sam And Dave of the 80s. Aykroyd tried it again in 1998 with reasonable success.

Track Listing

1. Minnie The Moocher
2. Jailhouse Rock
3. Sweet Home Chicago
4. Rawhide
5. Peter Gunn
6. Gimme Some Lovin'
7. She Caught The Katy
8. Old Landmark
9. Shake A Tail Feather
10. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
11. Think

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #709 in Music
• Released on: 1995-11-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Soundtrack, Original recording remastered

Amazon.co.uk Review
Inspired by the lovable Saturday Night Live white-boy blues schtick of Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, director John Landis seemingly threw every harebrained stunt he could imagine--and millions of dollars in production costs and wrecked autos--onto the screen. The resulting film could have been mistaken for a bad case of Hunter S Thompson's DT's, but Landis never shortchanged the music: Cab Calloway, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles all get their moment in the spotlight. Miraculously, the chic-shabby Blues Brothers, anchored by the Stax rhythm section of Cropper and Dunn, hold their own against the legends, perhaps by the sheer joy and love they have for the music. --Jerry McCulley