I t's time to get the band back together once again, because Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's seminal musical, The Blues ...

It’s where they grew up with mentor Curtis (played by singer Cab Calloway), who taught the brothers to love the blues, and where they later encounter the ruler-swinging nun known as “The ...

But Cab didn’t stay long in the role of “Blanche Calloway’s Little Brother.” By the late ’20s, his Alabamians were playing regularly in Chicago, while he himself landed a feature role on ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Ray Charles, seen in a 1979 photo, the year “The Blues Brothers” was filmed. His rendition of “Shake A Tail Feather” is on the movie soundtrack.

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But Cab didn’t stay long in the role of “Blanche Calloway’s Little Brother.” By the late ’20s, his Alabamians were playing regularly in Chicago, while he himself landed a feature role on ...

Run by brothers Max, Dave and Lou Fleischer ... Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway. In exchange for appearing in cartoons, musicians were granted performances in Paramount’s theater chain.

Cab Calloway's grandson tells the story of how ... Landis is on hand to discuss the making of The Blues Brothers movie. The film certainly merits mention because Calloway's rousing performance ...

From then on, he came back almost every year, worshipped by old fans… and new ones, thanks to his role in John Landis’s The Blues Brothers (1980). Suddenly, Cab Calloway was back in the ...

In 1980, the blockbuster film The Blues Brothers featured cameos from a bevy of musical titans, including James Brown, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway and John Lee Hooker, but it was a five-minute show ...

and his appearance in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, Calloway died in 1994—but not before becoming a profound influence on figures as disparate as ... Having spent the day yesterday listening to ...