According to Aykroyd, Blues Brothers knockoffs — ironically, an imitation of a duo who were themselves an imitation of Black blues and soul singers — began popping up around the country.

such as how Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi took two white guys in black suits and rocketed The Blues Brothers to the top of the charts with a multi-platinum album in 1978 and a subsequent movie in ...

Belushi appeared to be alluding to how The Blues Brothers often included Black artists as members, even though it was headlined by two white men. Bloom told the comedian that most of the critics ...

Described as being part of Old Black Hollywood in the 1950s ... legendary films such as “The Ten Commandments,” “The Blues Brothers” and “Lady Sings the Blues.” Loree Beamer-Wilkinson ...

When the cops who initially pull over the Blues brothers give chase and call it in, they identify the vehicle as a "black and ...

The Blues Brothers concept was conceived when Belushi ... was unconvinced that white movie-goers would be interested in a bunch of old black musicians. He also apparently didn’t want blacks ...

The inaugural “Blues Brothers Con” was eventually held in ... Belushi Pisano previously loaned two of the iconic black suits worn by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi throughout the film, which ...

(The Blues Brothers had already appeared on an earlier ... And there was Morris, the original cast’s sole Black member, dressed in some sort of sharkskin suit and spouting an introduction ...