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In an April 1988, interview he gave to the Chicago Sun-Times, Aykroyd said the Blues Brothers act borrowed from Sam and Dave and others; the Sun-Times quoted him as explaining: "Well, obviously, the duo thing and the dancing, but the hats came from John Lee Hooker. The suits came from the concept that when you were a jazz player in the '40s ...
A Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin sketch. The Festrunks, Yortuk (Aykroyd) and Georg (Martin), were two brothers who had emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United States. . Culturally inept, they went to various social hangouts (bars, art exhibits, dance clubs) in an attempt to connect with attractive American women ("
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. [4] It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC's variety series Saturday Night Live.
Aykroyd writes and narrates the Audible Original “Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude,” which starts with him meeting Belushi one freezing night in Toronto in 1973 and takes us to today, with ...
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Aykroyd thinks back to working with the Godfather and Queen of Soul on the 1980 classic "The Blues Brothers."
Elwood Blues of The Blues Brothers (1976–78) Floyd Hunger, from The Mall sketches; Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute; George, one of the cooks at Olympia Cafe; Irwin Mainway from Consumer Probe and other sketches (1976–) Jack Neehauser from St. Mickey's Knights of Columbus (1978) Jimmy Carter (1977–79) Jimmy Joe Red Sky, from Nick The Lounge ...
Aykroyd writes and narrates the Audible Original “Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude,” which starts with him meeting Belushi one freezing night in Toronto in 1973 and takes us to today, with gigs still lining up. The documentary drops Thursday. “It’s cool to keep doing it after 40-some years,” Aykroyd says from his summer home in ...