Last week’s Music History Monday post – which appeared on February 14, St. Valentine’s Day – offered up some of the very worst love songs ever written and recorded. That “worst love songs” topic grew out of an anniversary: the 30th anniversary of the U.S. opening of the movie Wayne’s World on February 14, 1992. My brief discussion of Wayne’s World noted that to this day, it remains the highest-grossing film based on a sketch from Saturday Night Live (SNL). The second highest-grossing SNL-inspired flick was The Blues Brothers, starring John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, which was released on June 20, 1980. The “Blues Brothers” – Jake (Belushi) and Elwood (Aykroyd) – made their debut on April 22, 1978, when their fellow SNL cast member Garrett Morris introduced them as that evening’s musical guests. Accompanied by Paul Schaffer (born 1949) and his incredibly tight SNL house (horn) band, the “brothers” performed Soul Man (1967) by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. For our information, Elwood (Aykroyd) carries his harmonica in a briefcase, handcuffed to his wrist. The performance is linked below. Surprisingly, as musical performers, Belushi and Aykroyd weren’t bad at all. In particular, John Belushi had a musical background: the […]