Blues Brothers: Soul Man - SNL 

No doubt about it! Insane and off the chain! Still lovin' it in 2024!!

Dan Akroyd went full crazy on this one ...

こんなにイカしてたなんて🎉🎉🎉 ブルースハープも最高ですね❣️❣️❣️😆😆😆

Looks like he was doing football drills.

How much was rehearsed and how much of it was spontaneous?

and lets not forget John Lee Hooker!

@@marthijnvandenbroeck8766 And Ray Charles.

and James Brown!

and Matt "Guitar" Murphy

don't forget james brown and john lee hooker

Here man 😂

どうしたんだい？独りで聴くのがそんなにさみしいのかい？仔猫ちゃん！

Io, anni 71, nostalgia canaglia!

Me

ならず者だよーん

Legends

Never see their likes again! 😞🥲👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

...the same strateegy that worked so well for Jackie Gleason, et. al. in the 'Honeymooners'...

Garrett Morris was also terrific on SNL - his Chico Escuela bit was classic. He is among my favorites from SNL - along with Akroyd and Belushi. I was in college during SNL's first years, and this "appointment TV" after a night out...

And it sounds EXACTLY like the studio version, the cassette of which I wore out back in the day. lol

Amazing that the band could keep it together.

Dan's moves are still cool.

Akroyd, one word AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

Did Belushi do a cartwheel? Shoot, as a big guy, I know that isn't easy.

I had forgotten how lanky he was! Man got legs!!

Was just thinking that. It's one of the reasons I watch this from time to time.

seriously!!!😂💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

@@productwholeslave2122 Thanks for the reference. I agree; the final scene of the movie really does showcase Ackroyd's enthusiasm for dancing.

People use "underrated" as a compliment when it's in fact an insult. That's like the needy boyfriend who says, I'm the only one who loves you. People don't appreciate you the way I do. I'm the only one who knows how great you are. It sounds like a compliment but it's really not.

VERY.....UNDERRATED

I’m glad you got to have that AMAZING experience.

Paul Schaffer and the drummer weren't in the movie (Paul had a contract still with SNL).

If everyone that claimed to have been there actually was there, 30 Rock would have collapsed from the weight alone

Wow, what a great little story! It is very cool to have witnessed something you can watch forty-five years later.

I thought King Bee was the first blues brothers number

You mean that all of them was considered to be the best of the best in the 70's

@@reineh3477 that means they are legends.

Donald “duck” Dunn on bass

Who is the drummer?

@@reineh3477 Much better than the junk you hear today, and yes the best in the 70s 80s 90s 00s 10s 20s etc...because Classics like that never die...

April 2022, I am here watching & enjoying every second of it!

You're not!

I ❤️ the Blues Brothers they never get old!

SOOOOOOOOL MAAAAAAAAN

Not alone bro 😎

Now it's just Harvey Weinstein porn. Poor egg dicked pleb

It's still terrific

SNL helps keep me sane during the tRump era….

Agreed

😎😎

They were on a mission from God.

If they seemingly left that club between 9:00/10:00pm (its dark as hell out!) Why does it take them all night and all day to make it 106 miles?! They get to the office and the guys at lunch! It took 13 hours?! The speed they were going,it should've taken a little over an hour! And if you think about it,John candy who is a Chicago cop,meets them at the club! So they shouldn't even be 100 miles from Chicago! In fact,going by the map they used when advertising the show,they were MAYBE 30 miles away! And the crimes they were guilty of,when you get right down to it,was traffic violations,vandelism and petty theft! No way they would've sent more then 2 or 3 police cars at them! And why is the national Guard driving ww2 Sherman tanks! Surely even they had better equipment by the 80s!!

You get me my Cheez Whiz boy?

"Fix the cigarette lighter"

Dan Aykroyd really had some crazy moves! Very enjoyable.

Absolutely true

Exactly what I was thinking...I don't think I heard anything Belushi sang 😂😂

Love Dan ! Great moves ❤

AMAZING performance by everyone here including that awesome introduction by Garret "I said put your hands together " Morris, but yes Dan Aykroyd steals the show !!

Facts

Mr Fabulous Donald Duck Dunn Matt Guitar Murphy Steve Cropper Blue Lou Marini Definitely. Honestly wish I was alive for this

The part that’s so devastating is Belushi alone was so god damn talented, and we got to witness so little of what he could have given us.

So true!

That is an absolute fact!

THEY AINT CASTING THEM LITTLE BLK DUDES THESE DAYS

I’d forgotten how well he could “cut a rug”!

People don't realize, that's the dance Michael Jackson does in his Billy Jean performance's... There's very few that can do Mike's move's as good or better, James Brown is one, Prince, and Ackroyd when he does the hot foot dance...

true

I never tire of watching Dan do his thing!!

It's from that Joilette pepper steak

👍

One of the greatest moments in TV History, mainly because no one really knew what to expect.

They would have done well and preserved that legacy if they packed it up in a couple more seasons.

Probably top 3 if not the actual greatest.

No doubt. Definitely the best open!

and a drug and alcohol habit that would eventually kill him

Loved it when he did Joe Cocker

Then blew it on speedballing.

Too bad he also had the monkey on his back.

He sure did! He was my fav!

I think we all did!!

same here~~

That makes ✌️ of us!!!!

Same here

Me too

Garrett Morris was superb. He really set the stage that something special was about to happen.

He really brought the excitement!

Thx, I couldn't figure out who that was.

Yes. ...yes we can.😎

I love how in the beginning of the video he's in a suit and tie, looking as dapper as can be, and then comes back looking completely disheveled at the end

I love it!!

I am not gonna even try, although my brains says Do It

You gave new meaning to the phrase, "Don't try this at home."

Killer moves, that's for sure.

Belushi's? Try doing Dan's dance moves.....he could really move.

Especially with those dance moves while staying the straight man

Seriously the dance moves are priceless 👍

Dan Bauman dan akroyd is one of the good guys ..he was very interested in Ufology and was a good friend of Stanton Friedman

Aykroyd never did, either.

He sure could really dance. He outdanced Belushi, but Belushi outsung him. Wow, Belushi could really sing.

From looking at Dan, he probably was only 185 here.... he's always been a slightly husky guy even back then but he looks very slim here.

Cocaine is a helluva drug

he's just moving his legs up and down,

audio was playback'd

He is on mission from God.

I saw that!

The dude could dance!!!!¡

Paul Schaffer wasn't in the movie because he had another gig.

I agree.... Nothing tops this! And I've been watching it forever

Aykroyd is known for being a superb harmonica player.

He was channeling the South when so many people played the harmonica... Somewhere someone with enough money,,, Should start the harmonica school... The blue brothers School of harmonica! Belushi would love it.

@@costapopolos Yes, I second that. Dan was a giant Soul and Blues fan and was a terrific harmonica player. Peeps in the States don't understand how, in the late 60's, the Blues and Soul was played on Canadian radio freely. It had a giant impact, where in the US many States refused to play any of it. Yea, Canadians had more fun! :D

His singing almost ruined the set, all love mates... he’s the guy who never got hooked, those guys killed a lot of people... 🦠

@@bigeyetuna6228 WTF ?....you been eating the cats meds again ?

Only if you did it right.

SNL was so much better back when it was fueled by cocaine.

@@SethimusMaximus..😅🤣

Ha ha. My brothers and I had the 45 (I was about 9) with "Rubber Biscuit" on the back. How many times did we play that record on a gigantic furniture-style record player in a damp, dusky basement in a working-class house in Missouri. Culture is weird. Yes, seems like yesterday. Time is weird.

@@calvinsaxon5822 😅😆

May you have great health!

I envy you your opportunity to live through as an adult what might be the greatest 25 years of live entertainment and movies that will ever be.

I was 24 then, with Amy Jo on the couch in the family room... what a time and place. Also saw live . NJ.

...at first I saw SNL as an annoyance - it replaced 'Weekend Update' with Lloyd Dobbins - I'd gotten back from the better part of 3 years in Germany with the Army in '74 and was getting used to a new (for me) routine of enjoying Saturday nights in front of a TV...after a few SNL shows I began to look forward to it...saw some f the great classic skits...Steve Martin's King Tut, the Festrunk Bros, and the commercial parodies - 'Look for the Union Label' etc...@@williamwarrenconkright3973

You are awesome!

Did you know that Cropper plays on the original Sam & Dave version (as does bassist Duck Dunn?)

Chicken wire?

P and F reference?

AFM.....shit!

Stand by Your Man!

that comment is so bad that you are no longer allowed into bob's country bunker.

Same here.. T.T

@@CleoRip Me tooooooo

Same. Weird that he gave us a little parting gift like this clip to give us one last laugh

Same reason I'm here. God bless that old chunk of coal, he's a diamond at last, laughing with Farley and Super Dave, listening to his best friend Billy Joe.

Me too.

100%

or swallow his gum! :)

Or lose his hat 🧢. Lol 😂

I lost my shit when he did that cartwheel lol, I didn't think he could actually do them so well!!!

And he landed on his mark! (or near enough)

In time with the music!

i went to the record store and bought the LP on picture disc

@@briannotafan3368 oh wow, I don’t own the picture vinyl record but I do own all the albums on black vinyl and they’re amazing! Rock on chief

Proud to say that I was there. God speed John Belushi.

I was a junior in high school. A group of us would watch every Saturday night. Fall of 78 had, to me, the best episodes. The Mick Jagger interview was one of my favorites.

@@Firehydrant1051 Right there????

And a shame he wasted it all for drugs.

@@denicesanders4586 yeah a lot of the greats succumbed to drugs. It's a damn shame.

"A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long."

Too bad he was addicted to cocaine.

how is it a shame? he did it to himself. Clearly it was what he wanted more than anything. These men were nothing more than ego riddled abusers who stole from others and did nothing but suck the life out of everyone they touched.

I watched that episode back in 1978 and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Backed by a world class band of geniuses-all of whom put Stax Records and Muscle Shoals on the map and kept them afloat for many years. Get a load of Paul Shaffer back there while he still had hair!

@@andrealuvshouse Yeah, Lou Marini, Alan Rueben, Steve Cropper, Matt Murphy, Donald Dunn, SO many greats! And, I remember watching this live.

And now it's awful

Back then, with a group of friends, we got together every Saturday night to watch Second City and Saturday Night Live. What a great time that was. I cried when Belushi died. Saturday Night Live is crap now.

It's this thing called COCAINE!!!

It's not cocaine, Belushi was a gymnast. He did the backflips in the movie too

@@PebblesOTB . He did the backflips whilst extremely high on Medical grade cocaine!

Garret Morris nailed it too! I swear I've been to bars that open the act just like that. And the boys were, of course, beyond!!.

@@PebblesOTBNo, that was a Stuntman in a fat suit. His name is Jonathan Yarbrough. And that's a shitty cartwheel for anyone claiming to be a gymnast.

Just part of the act. Its something that the movie carries over.

And John's chewing a huge wad of gum the whole time 😂😉😎

My stepson went as Elwood Blues for Halloween one year, complete with briefcase and harmonica, lol. I think he was 11 or 12.

@@jobabs that's awesome, I plan to go to Comicon one year with my friend both dressed up like them.

Well done on watching the video

Indeed. Additionally, he also met President Ford, Pope John Paul II, was given the keys to the city by Mayor Ed Koch, and was featured in a Spiderman comic. All before he was 30....

Tim Allen in November 1994 had the number one tv show (Home Improvement), number one movie (The Santa Claus), and the number one book (Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man)

@@fakeblaze3807 Exactly. It has been done before...*LOL*...and loved Home Improvement.

Number 1 book and number album is different. Both great though !

@@fakeblaze3807 It should be illegal to compare Tim Allen to John Belushi in any manner.

YES!!!

It's a documentary of two brothers trying to save a nun. Not a movie -.-

King bee.

Thanks to the movie "Blues Brothers" in 1980. It was and is a musical classic with great comedy.

Yes, they just went from a comedy act to a legitimate music act instead.

Check out Mick Jagger practicing his dance moves. Only person I’ve ever seen dance like Mick. Dan Akroyd tears it up!!

Dan was gettin it for sure!!

He's got some fancy footwork for sure.

Joe Gonzalez yeah that’s a great call back! But it differently ages us. I’m 55, I miss those cool running shoes. Nike waffle trainers, Adidas dragon, gazelle...

Prefontaine the greatest runner to ever come out of the Northwest! Pre! Pre! Pre! A running Icon! Shawn

Doesn't hurt that they have so many great all-star musicians in the backing band.

They still do

They adored each other. Very close!

I was so thrilled to see the Blues Brothers perform at The Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa,OK last night! They are still amazing! Jim Belushi plays Zee Blues. Elwood and Zee paid respectful tributes to Jake-John Belushi.

another narrow-minded stuck in the past..

Everything was better in your day. 🙄

I saw this when it was live. Back when staying home on sat, nite was fun

So did I. Loved it

Gilda Radnor,lest we forget

@@phillipallenpelleyiii8464 we do not!

We planned our Saturday around the show. Best part of the weekend 🤗

well that's why he was fixed cast.

Chewing gum, too. His vocal on She Caught the Katy is amazing!

@@DarkEliteEric Yeah, I've always felt that was his best vocal performance. And I suppose it's not just because he sings it very well, but also because it's the least known of the songs the Brothers performed, so there's less need to compare their version with the original.

Dancing machine. Coke machine.

And Aykroyd's dancing - must've been some good coke back then.

Don’t forget the cheese buggy

Can I ask who the guy announcing it is??? He looks younger but so familiar

@@cclaudio8069 That’s Garrett Morris, one of the original SNL cast members.

@@cclaudio8069 you probably seen him in "two broke girls" as Earl

Started with the bees

Yeah, that dancing is awesome!

100%, and I wish it kept going into the awesome SNL intro with the great saxophone jam with all The Not Ready for Prime Time members photos with Don Pardo their great announcer.

It is the best thing I ever saw them do. When they came out you had no idea what was fixing to happen. It was all everyone talked about afterwards.

So great it made a GREAT comedy film

Paul Schaefer put together a blues band deluxe.

Without question. This was the power of SNL back then- that they could come out with a burst of insane, brilliant energy like this and blow everyone's head off. And that it worked as good as a real band. And went straight to #1, like a real band. And these guys are mere comics.

@@curtandoscar Referring to Ackroyd and Belushi as "mere comedians" is possibly the worst take on their talent I have read in 40 years...congratulations!

dan is the man!

I dunno. I think we all gave Elwood plenty of love late 70's, into the 80's.

Called Cocaine... Akroyd tells about it in the interview of Belushi's last 24.

I agree, especially since Aykroyd is the one who actually created The Blues Brothers and started the band/characters. He also wrote the original first draft of the movie.

The dancing was highly energetic for sure! It was so startling to see John Belushi doing a cartwheel then actually do a good job singing this! One of the best moments ever on SNL.

Haven't watched it since the first few seasons. Once the original cast turned over, it's never been the same - it's like eating 3 day left overs. :(

We absolutely were blessed...

Everything else stopped when this show came on.

@karenkoontz4509 Aww remember way back when you had to catch a show when it was aired otherwise who knows when it would air again as a rerun, if it would. Don't get me wrong, I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy all the convinces streaming & the internet provide us with currently, but back then there was a certain amount of excitement & anticipation of waiting to see a show or performance that cannot be duplicated by having whatever you want to see whenever you want to see it at your fingertips. And clearly, its something most of us take for granted these days. I still can recall like it was yesterday when I was about ten ( and all the years prior) & all the kids in my neighborhood would wait for that once a year showing of The Wizard of Oz. Our neighborhood was alive with kids playing & screaming would go as quiet as a church 30 mins before it would come on as we all had to get hoe & get cleaned up & in pj's prior to it. Such a sweet, innocent childhood memory to randomly look back upon now that I'm heading towards 60. Kids may have a lot more everything today, but I still believe sometimes quality over quality isn't always the better thing to have. I guess I'm officially "old" because I'm starting to sound like my parents did when talking to me all those years ago.

RIP Cab Calloway.

A good actor in movies too..saw him recently in a film about ladies beauty /hair products..forget its name, but it was him!!!

Here you see an example of a talent saturation.

Was? He still IS.

@@Iansco1 On SNL he was great because he was considered filler in that cast and he was the furthest from it.

I was just thinking: imagine turning on SNL next Saturday and this is the cold open you find. Damn.

That just doesn't make sense.

@Janis Joplin by saying things you dont agree with

Find some standards.🤦‍♂️

@Janis congratulations for making it political, you win a no-prize

is this Soul or Blues?

@@yourmum69_420 This would probably be soul...The Blues Brothers could go with both equally well because the backing band was comprised of legends in their own right.

Ah, when SNL was worth watching. For years the writers could not tell the difference between a funny skit , or a great punchline from embarrassing cringe. Nothing has changed. SNL has not been funny for a long time.

@@yourmum69_420 yes.

@@yourmum69_420 They can do both. Country and Western.

Absolutely!

Dan Akroyd, comedian/actor. Blowing harp like an 80 yr old bluesman! how does he do that?!?

Watch drake and josh blues brothers

They have real talent toooo

Agree.

Akroyd’s moves were beyond amazing here. Just watching him makes me happy.

@@ardishorwich4601 I still enjoy watching it.

Who knew that they could sing so well

The Blues Brothers album that came out not long after is awesome.

You hit the nail right on the head. No one knew what they were gonna do after those first chords started playing.

True, but look at the band backing them, one of the greatest bands ever assembled.

I remember this too when it first came out, the first year or two were so good and Akroyd and Belushi really made it.

I'm embarrassed to ask, but who were the musicians?

@@michaelconnors1301 Here are the guys I recognize. Paul Shaffer on Piano and MD. Played with everyone. Saxophonist "Blue" Lou Marini Trombonist-saxophonist Tom Malone from Blood, Sweat & Tears Steve Cropper and bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn from Booker T and the M.G.'s and lots of Stax Records sessions. By way of Julliard Alan Rubin on trumpet (From Lou Reed to Aretha Franklin) Matt "Guitar" Murphy, who had performed with many blues legends.

@@larrybethune3909 Wow. You have a helluva an eye and no an amazing amount about music. Well done.

@@larrybethune3909 👍🇨🇦

- Steve Cropper (Guitar left) wrote this song among many others you would know, he was in the Stax Records house band that backed Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, etc. He also was in Booker T & The MG's (all these bands were intertwined). Look him up, you'll be amazed at his story. - Matt "Guitar" Murphy (Guitar right) - Howlin Wolf, Memphis Slim. - Donald "Duck" Dunn (Bass) - Booker T, also Stax, Eric Clapton during 80's (Money & Cigarettes album +). - Paul Schaeffer - Letterman Tonight Show band leader, many other bands (ie Honeydrippers w/ Robert Plant) - Alan Rubin, "Blue" Lou Marini, and Tom "Bones" Malone - horns, these guys are jazz background with crazy resumes (Juliard, Zappa, Blood Sweat & Tears, Sinatra, Duke Ellington, etc) - Steve Jordan (Drums) - also Letterman Band, Keith Richards solo albums, John Mayer It's really insane and amazing how they assembled this band initially for an SNL skit. I don't know, but have to believe that they at least had hoped to create a real band out of it. This lineup is just ridiculous otherwise. Good wiki page covers it here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blues_Brothers

A lot of singers chew gum on stage, it keeps the saliva in the mouth, lubricating the throat..

I just discovered the Grateful dead song West LA fade away was written as a tribute to John Belushi.

I remember those wonderful performances. Today's SNL is but a whimpering shadow of the original. Aside from Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi and Garrett Morris, there were Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Bill Murray, and many other extremely talented artists.

​@@lorenzoparedes2306 neh i disagree.. the early days were good but rough.. eddie murphy is the number one for saving the show in the early 80s and the 90s cast was equal or greater to the 70s.

@@ladyrose7793 its been both the whole time lmao

I never liked SNL but have always appreciated the top talent that came from it.

Me too brother. Only me and sister snuck in the den and watched. Back when the Coneheads and the insufferable bitch were popular. That was definitely the best time to watch, I think.

I, too, saw this act live as it happened. A few months later, a buddy of mine and I did a rendition of the Blues Brothers at the high school where we both taught during an assembly that focused on TV and movies ... many were SNL skits. The reception we got was indicated by the loud screams of approval when we took the microphones to do "Soul Man." BTW ... I was Jake Blues ... as that is how I signed autographs after the show. ;-)

Lucky you Mike!

Watching the movie right now !! Streaming on Peacock. !

Hello 👋🏼 Melissa Saint

LOVED him. Hilarious comedian.

SNL was a must watch show in those days.

Drugs il let u do anything! Till the grim reaper calls y home!

Cocaine is a h*ll of a drug!

Really

@Marvin Mealer and Joe Go cocaine keeps your hat on? Good to know. Now to dose up my kindergarten class who are doing Guys and Dolls - I was worried about the backflips in “rocking the boat” but now I’m solid.

I can't believe the hat stayed on lol

its also comedy

and now .....its just SHIT!!!!

Belushi kept pushing the Envelope with Cocaine. More & more then more

@@longhairscorpio3976 better than most "comedy" today

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how babies are made.

Perfectly stated!

Neither of them were great singers but they gave it all and then some.

@@jaygrannell858 Lol, and they were inescapably white...but they tried SO hard! ;0)

@@debrajones7344 hey now those moves dont grow on average white boys and trust me WE tried HARDER to copy but never go t it .. they were great!

The MAN'S a LEGEND... 🍺😎👍

​@@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 You got that right.

AND he times it PERFECTLY!! Made the flip and stuck the landing RIGHT in time with the music!