The Blues Brothers--Soul Man (1978)

     The Blues Brothers had it's genesis in a 1976  Saturday Night Live sketch. In it, "Howard and his All-Bee Band" played the song, "I'm a King Bee" with John Belushi singing and Dan Aykroyd on harmonica. They were dressed in the costumes they wore for their "Killer Bees" sketch.
     The actual development for the duo (and the movie) was done at the Holland Tunnel Blues bar where the SNL crew would go for the after show party on Saturday nights. Aykroyd had a love for the blues and soon Belushi found himself immersed in it himself, they began working out some of their favorites with a band, and debuted on SNL on April 22nd, 1978. The response was enough to encourage them, with the help of Paul Shaffer to put together a hot blues band to accompany them. That led to the release of several singles and a couple of better than average albums (more because of the band than Belushi's singing). Sam and Dave's, "Soul Man" was the second single and reached into the top 20 in 1978.