10 Things You Didn't Know About BluesBrothers 

"It's got a cop motor, a four hundred and forty cubic inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters, so it'll run good on regular gas." What more needs to be said! :)

This movie is and will always be one of the greatest movies ever made, and one of my all time favorites

Here’s some trivia you missed. There were TWO film companies. Chicago and Los Angeles. The Palladium theater in Hollywood was used to film the “Mini the moocher” scene with Cab Calloway. This is where the brothers at last convinced the band to do a concert raising the money necessary to save the convent, “just in time” But, the police tracked them down and the brothers skipped out while the band provided cover. An audience was needed to fill all those theater seats. A local FM station, KMET, offered tickets to see the filming and participate as paid extra’s. My wife and I along with a few of our friends were selected. We were there for two days of filming. Had to wear the same clothes and return to the same seats after each break. It was GREAT! After day one was in the “can”, Landis allowed those that wanted to stay and watch rehearsals for the next days shoot. We stayed of course and watched the band play several songs; the brothers rehearse the dancing sequences. During actual filming, with camera's being whisked down the center and side isle's, overhead on tracks, repeatedly. A multitude of audience shots. Reaction shots of clapping, screaming (you get the idea), we were sure to be included in the final edit. Not so fast! While I am certain for ½ a second I see my buddy, I do not see myself or the rest of our friends. But I can say honestly, I was an extra on the first Blues Buster’s Movie and got to “hang out” with Belushi, Aykroyd, Landis, Cab Calloway, Donald Duck Dun and the rest of the Blues Buster’s band

" Our lady of blessed acceleration, don't fail me now!"

Elwood: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... & we're wearing sunglasses". Jake: "Hit it." One of the best pieces of dialog in movie history!

This movie definitely is lightning in a bottle. Just the fact that they got all of these music legends, and sharp, comedic timing is an achievement all in itself.

Favorite exchange: "How often does the train go by?" "So often you won't even notice it"...

As a person who strongly dislikes musicals plays and musical films, this is the only movie which features musical numbers and I’m able to watch and never get tired of watching. Such a timeless classic! 👍🏼

We have both kinds of music here. Country and Western.

Didn't Carrie Fischer look ADORABLE in that dress and with her hair in pigtails? ♡♡♡♡

"We're putting the band back together" I love that line. It's simple, cryptic, has history, and it was delivered perfectly. It was a quest. It was redemption.

My introduction to John Lee Hooker...what a film.

"Four fried chickens and a coke" "Do you want chicken wings or legs?" "Four fried chickens .... and a coke" "And you?" "Toast, white dry with nothing on it"

Random trivia .... the Australian Blues Brothers Revival Band has been playing for 36 years around Australia, and the Jake Blues character just turned 60, having played the role for the entire 36 years. A bloody legend.

Dan also very deliberately wrote this to help out the dying out R&B scene and also all the legendary artists that were going broke. He succeeded in creating a resurgence in the genre and jump starting all their careers again.

As a life-long Chicagoan Blues Brothers holds a special place in my heart. I often like to point out exactly where a scene or shot was filmed. Some places have changed dramatically, others look exactly the same.

One of the best comedies of all time indeed. RIP Aretha Franklin 😎

"This place has everything."

I have seen "The Blues Brothers: about a dozen times. If it is on tv, I will stop and watch it again.

At the end of the movie when they are playing Jail House Rock in prison the first prisoner to jump up on a table and start dancing is Joe Walsh the guitarist from The James Gang, and The Eagles in addition to a successful solo artist.

"What kind of music do you usually have here?" "Oh, we got both kinds. We got Country, and Western."

The best action adventure musical comedy ever made! 😄

I’ll always be thankful to the blues brothers for introducing me to the great Sam & Dave, who they listen to every time they play the radio 👍

"Nonsense, my brother and I are here to dine, and celebrate my early release from the services of the state. Come Elwood, let us adjourn to the nearest table and overlook this establishment's board of fare"

Wow Carrie Fisher was in the two top movies at the same time. 💜

My fave part of this film is the hair salon titled "curl up and dye"! 😂🤣😂

"DID U GIT ME MIE CHEEZ WHIZ BOYEE?!"

"No they don't got my address,I falsified my renewal,put down 1060 west addison" " 1060 west addison? That's Wrigley field " This is second favorite movie of all time, thank you so much for this!

"Orange whip? Orange whip? Three Orange whips!"

There's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark out, and we're wearing sunglasses.

"No sir, Mayor Daley doesn't dine here anymore. He's dead sir.."

Ever since I got this as a Christmas Present, I never got tired of this

My late father's favorite movie. I love the part with Cab Calloway. Miss ya dad.

John Belushi is the only person to ever have a number one movie, number one album, and number one television show at the same time. Number one movie, Animal House, number one album, Briefcase full of Blues, number one TV show, Saturday Night Live. In America. Most people don't know that!

The Pope in way was in the movie. There's a poster of him in the home of the landlady when Jake & Elwood was putting the band together.

A true timeless, classic movie. No matter how many times I watch it, it never gets boring. Forever RIP John belushi, a true legend in his own lifetime and an even bigger one now. I've had my own battle with substance abuse, which cost me 20 years of my life, so I know how hard it is once addiction gets it's claw's into you. Thankfully, unlike many, including friends, I lived to tell the tale. Hard drugs are life destroying, often fatal. Just don't! x

"Four Fried Chickens...and a Coke..." So there was actually a time where people actually thought that Steven Spielberg was going to be a Failure... It's legitimately hard to be THAT wrong...

Lineup of some of the greatest musical talent and comedy of a generation. 😊

_"It wasn't lies, it was just bullshit."_ I love this movie, it's not number one on my list, but I have seen this more times than any other, by quite a margin. It's so re-watchable, and 40 years later holds up incredibly well. ...Just timeless!!

Blues Brothers was absolutely one of my favorite movies growing up, I love all the goofy stunts in that movie and how over the top some of the car crash scenes and stuff are.

Best movie musical ever.

Minty, I've dated people that brought me less joy than you do - especially in the mornings. Everytime I see a notification for a new video it makes my day. You rock, sending much love from the sunshine state.

"One unused prophylactic..................... one soiled."

The Blues Brothers was one hell of a movie and still stands the test of time

My favorite movie to this day! I almost bought the "real" blues mobile in Branson Missouri when I was on my honeymoon, it was 9300.00. Now that I'm divorced I wish I would have bought the car LOL!!!

I remember going to see this movie in the theater. The first time I watched it in the theater, the audience was singing along and reacting to the what was going on screen.

" what car are we?" "55". ..".hi this is car 55 we're in a truck."..

I love this movie. Loved it so much, I went to see the Blues Brothers play at Universal Ampitheatre in 1980. Fantastic show and great movie!

All time *BEST* film ever! It’s such a classic. These were actually very fun to listen to. 👍

The Blues Brothers is a classic. Blues Brothers 2000, not so much, but the music was still great.

I had that album. My father-n-law was a real CPD officer and was part of the last chase, every time it was on with him in the room we had to sit and hear all the old stories again. Best Chicago movie ever!!

More celebrities than you can shake a stick at including blues musicians.

I can't believe John Belushi has been dead for forty years.

I sincerely don't understand why people don't like 1941. I love that movie, I've probably seen it 40 times. "I'm a bug!" 🐜

Here's another unknow piece of trivia, when the blues mobile does the jump over the police car and knocks the gumballs off with the tires, Belushi and Ackroyd both told the stuntman they'd each give him 1000 bucks if he could do it, the stuntman did it, only one take....from Chicago here, friend of mine was a police officer worked ng down there at the time

Actually he knocked on the door of the house,was recognized and let in,raiding the fridge and passing out on the couch,where he still was when a staffer came by looking for him several hours later.

Fun fact - the Ford Pinto wagon that was dropped had to be approved by the FAA. They wanted to make sure it would drop straight down and not fly off somewhere. It did indeed drop like a brick.

''It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

Have watched the movie 1000's of times. Never get tired of it.

I watched it in the theater was one of my favorite movie experiences. Miss John was so sad when he died. But he lives on forever young.

Blues Brothers is so iconic. So many cameos you'd od on them

Blues Brothers - one of my all-time favorite movies. Love the tunes, love all the actors, musicians, simply everything!

at 54 years old, this is the one movie i remember seeing at the drive in with my mom and sister and i laughed so hard i had tears and my stomach ached. This is and will always be consider by me ,the funniest movie i've ever seen! My family thought i was crazy but this touched me in such a special way. I even drive a retired police car to this day.

My all time favorite movie. It's got everything. They broke my watch!

The extended cut is glorious. Gives a little more explanation about the car, but best yet longer music performances 🤘🤘🤘

The late pontiff has been canonized and is known as St. John Paul II. Meaning, this one movie was blessed by a literal saint.

Yes it's a musical... The greatest musical of all time

Me and my friend P.F. were extras in the Cab Calloway scene.We mailed for tickets from KLOS got paid nothing but a free lunch.It was filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

1941 and The Blues Brothers were two movies we couldn't play enough when I was a kid. We had both on RCA Videodisc. I've got a director's cut off The Blues Brothers that was released in the early 2000's that has the entire 2.5 hour movie. Great scenes explaining the car and an extra music number at Bob's Country Bunker.

The role the music played in Rock and Roll evolution cannot be ignored. Between Punk and the The BB, Disco was ushered out and the '80's music scene came to being. The BB played a critical role in this.

“The movie went way over budget.” Well I would hope so! I would love if a studio executive decided to visit the set and try to reign in the budget ... then saw them crashing dozens of police cars in pile ups, having chase scenes through the middle of shopping malls, watching Carrie Fisher demolish an entire building, and shutting down the middle of Chicago to send the army in ... then quietly backed away and decided to fly back to LA.

Chaka Khan was a member of the choir with James Brown in the church scene. There’s one shot of her that’s about 2 seconds.

Oh man so many things I could say about this movie. Speaking of Disco, Cab Calloway had the hit song Minnie the Moocher which he first recorded in 1931. However over the years as different musical genres would become popular Calloway would rerecord Minnie the Moocher in the latest hit genre. So in the 70's Calloway was pushing his DISCO version of Minnie the Moocher and that's the version he wanted to put into the movie and it took a lot of convincing by Landis, Akyroyd , Belushi and the Band to get him to do his Big Band version of the song for the movie. Calloway finally relented and the rest is movie history.

"This mall has got everything!" You're right the mall they filmed that famous chase scene was real. And was in Harvey. But it was not called the "Harvey Mall." It was the Dixie (Square) Mall, shuttered in 1979 and rented by Landis for three weeks to shoot that scene. The mall sat dormant and deteriorated for more than three decades afterward before the State of Illinois finally diverted some money from FEMA funds to demolish it in 2012. Look it up. Lots of videos about the sorry state of that mall right here on RU-vid. Including its final demolition.

The Blues Brothers was one of the greatest movies ever made. Great video, thanks!

I read the actual Blues Brothers book while in summer school in driving class in 1981. The book had an extra scene in it, about the band staying the night in a house being built in the suburbs and they blow it up. I was a huge SNL fan and the movie was hilarious for me and I really enjoyed the music to this day. A lot of critics hated Belushi pushing R&B music, thinking he was making fun of it, but he actually pushed the genre and I felt he did a fairly decent job singing most of the songs.

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Thanks Minty..worth the wait.. may The Blues Brothers live forever in our hearts.. sad of the reminder of loosing a great actor and comedian John Belushi rest in peace 💚 Wish you had added the scene with the nun wacking the boys with a ruler 😂😂😂😂 cracks me up everytime..

During a time where electro-pop music was making headway, this movie made traditional blues popular again to many people. 40 years later I am still listening to their albums and repeating movies lines.

I saw it when it came out and 35 years later I rented it to watch with my 2 teenage daughters, it’s a classic

The moral of the story is: Don't let John Landis near a helicopter.

Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, John Belushi, John Candy, Carrie Fisher....who else involved with this movie is gone!?!?

Best musical of the 80's

I was born 6 years after this movie. Came to America in 99 I saw this movie in 2020 I think it rocks and 70s rocks the music is amazing

I remember several years ago they tore down that mall in Harvey Illinois and were auctioning the bricks from the building I wish I could’ve gotten some myself 🥺🥺🥺

Great film, great video

RIP to all the awesome actors and actresses in this classic...also Matt "Guitar" Murphy...

They were the Blues Brothers, not the Disco Brothers. Glad they won out.

Sweet ! One of my all time fav musical movies !

I love you Minty. You are the best.

I'm 40 years old and just saw this movie for the first time 3 days ago!! It kicked ass! 👍

Back in the day when we had VHS video rental shops, I rented it so many times the owner suggested I buy my own copy. I did and wore it out. Now got the DVD, still watch it sometimes now when I need a laugh & morale boost.

"Minty's on a mission from God"

One of my Dads Favorites Movies ^_^

Met John Belushi at a New Year Eve party, it was the closing night of Winterland in San Francisco. My wife and I were driving home from a party past the Starship mansion there was flood lights out in front. My wife suggested we try to get in (I thought she was nuts) we parked the car walked up to the door rang the bell and somebody let us in. Journey was there, Commander Cody, John Belushi and others we didn’t recognize. After getting a couple of Heinekens from the fridge my wife went over to Belushi (still in his Blues Brother outfit) we had a short conversation he autographed her beer bottle (which we had many years before it took one to many a great fall) and we left.

One of the best musical film ever and action film to boot.

I’ve been waiting for this video! 1 of the greatest films EVER! No arguments.

The moral of the story is dont let Landis use helicopters on set

You must have read my mind Minty, just watched this again last night. The one line that kills me every time "Oh you fat penguin" followed by Jake and Elwood falling down the stairs, classic!

Aykroyd has a history of making extremely insane screenplays, for example the original idea for Ghostbusters and the original idea for Ghostbusters 2. And don't forget Nothing But Trouble, the man is an oddball but a fascinating oddball who I feel is my spirit animal/twin.