Time Is Tight Intro Blues Brothers Cab Calloway
05 Jul The "Original" Blues Brothers
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Today's post contains a lot of great music for you to enjoy – It all started a while ago with a CD I recorded for my brother-in-law as a gift and I'm posting many of the tracks here on the Hymie's page after it was requested by a customer.
My brother-in-law once played trombone in a Blue Brothers-inspired bar band, playing numbers like Otis Redding's "I Can't Turn You Loose" and the "Peter Gunn" theme. He and I are both enthusiastic fans of The Blues Brothers, the 1980 epic musical about a pair of "white hoodlum" blues musicians. The source material for the band's repertoire was 60s Stax/Volt soul and Chicago blues – It was an actual band whose album, Briefcase full of Blues, introduced a who's who of beloved session musicians that would play themselves in the film.
"Boys, you got to learn not to talk to nuns that way."
A Hymie's customer recently described to me how excited he was to see Booker T and the MG's play here in town because he was seated right in front of Steve Cropper. "I grew up on The Blues Brothers," he said, "So it was really cool to see him on stage." The Blues Brothers Band also included Cropper's bandmate Donald "Duck" Dunn and blues guitarist Matt Murphy, who leaves his wife with one of my favorite lines of the movie – "Let's boogie!"
What follows are the original recordings of some of the songs the Blues Brothers band plays in the movie, and then a few original recordings of numbers that appear on their two albums, Briefcase Full of Blues and Made in America. Maybe you are one of the unfortunate few who don't think The Blues Brothers was a funny movie, or you're a high-and-mighty purist who isn't interested in their rhythm and blues revival style, but we can all agree that many of these original records are genuine classics.
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The Blues Brothers are heard playing this Taj Mahal number during the first scene of the film, where Elwood has come to pick up his brother Jake from prison in a used police car. This was the first number on Taj Mahal's fantastic The Natch'l Blues album.
"I don't want to listen to no jive ass preacher talkin' to me about heaven and hell."
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I have skipped ahead to the end of the film now, but the horn riff from this Otis Redding song, "I Can't Turn You Loose", was also the opening number from the Blues Brothers original album.
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The Blues Brothers follow "I Can't Turn You Loose" with their version of Wilson Pickett's "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" which also seems to me to have borrowed the horn arrangement from the Bobby "Blue" Bland classic "Turn on Your Lovelight". I'll leave that one up to you – Either way these are two great rhythm and blues classics and songs I am always happy to hear (Sorry about the noise at the beginning of the Bobby "Blue" Bland track).
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The Blues Brothers is widely remembered as having been an epic tribute to the city of Chicago. The film seems to celebrate Chicago's beauty and diversity throughout, even as it points out some of the problems with living there:
Jake: How often does the train go by?
Elwood: So often you don't even notice it.
Its only fitting, then, that the Blues Brothers should leave the stage with a cheerful, upbeat version of this Robert Johnson classic, "Sweet Home Chicago".
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"I knew a hooker once named Minnie Mizolla."
Of course, Jake and Elwood were late to their own show, and an old friend had to stall for them – Cab Calloway, in one of the movie's many delightful cameos – performed "Minnie the Moocher" with the Blues Brothers band, and then introduced them over Booker T and the MG's "Time is Tight".
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Three songs the band performed at Bob's Country Bunker, where they struggled to find material that an audience which wants both kinds of music – "country and western" – will enjoy. First is the opener, "Gimme Some Lovin" by the Spencer Davis Group, and following are the theme from "Rawhide" which originally appeared on Frankie Laine's Hell Bent for Leather album and Tammy Wynette's country classic "Stand by Your Man".
"It should read 'Tonight only Blues Brothers triumphant return.'"
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A favorite of my trombone-playing brother-in-law was Henry Mancini's theme from the television series "Peter Gunn" which has long outlasted memories of the program itself.
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From the end of the film – Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock". I never thought it was very fair that the entire band went to prison.
Many other songs appear in the film as incidental music or in the cameo performances. Aretha Franklin sings "Think" and Ray Charles sings "Shake Your Tailfeather" which so far as I can tell was a new number. Jake and Elwood pass a street festival where John Lee Hooker is performing "Boom Boom". One of my favorite details is the 8 Track player in the "bluesmobile" which plays The Best of Same and Dave and gives us a chance to hear "Soul Man" and "Soothe Me" while Elwood is being pulled over for running a light that was clearly yellow.
"Do you see the light?"
The remaining tracks are original recordings of songs which appeared on the two Blues Brothers albums.
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"Messin' with the Kid" by Junior Wells.
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"Green Onions" by Booker T and the MGs.
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"Rubber Biscuit" by the Chips.
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"I Ain't Got You" by Jimmy Reed.
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"Soul Finger" by the Bar-Kays.
"Until then: Don't you go changin'."
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"Do You Love Me?" by the Contours. The only Motown track to make it into the band's repertoire.
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And "Expressway to Your Heart" by the Soul Survivors, one of the only white bands covered by the Blues Brothers. This 45 originally came out on the super-cool looking Crimson label.
"And you're not gonna go slidin' around with yer old white hoodlum friends."
Source: https://hymiesrecords.com/the-original-blues-brothers/
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