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Released
  
November 30, 1981

Artist
  
The Blues Brothers

Producer
  
Bob Tischler

Length
  
35:22

Release date
  
30 November 1981

Label
  
Atlantic Records

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Best of The Blues Brothers (1981)
  
Everybody Needs the Blues Brothers (1988)

Genres
  
Blues, Rhythm and blues, Blues rock, Blue-eyed soul

Similar
  
The Blues Brothers albums, Blues rock albums

Best of the Blues Brothers is the fourth and final Blues Brothers album released before John Belushi's death in 1982. It is a compilation album released by Atlantic Records on November 30, 1981. Along with tracks from the first three albums, Briefcase Full of Blues, The Blues Brothers: Music from the Soundtrack and Made in America, it includes unreleased live versions of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", "Rubber Biscuit", and "Expressway to Your Heart".

Contents

A special feature on The Best of John Belushi DVD shows Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi promoting the album on The Today Show. In that segment, they lament the fact that Tom Malone was accidentally left off the credits of the album.

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Track listing

All tracks recorded live, except tracks 4 & 8

  1. "Expressway to Your Heart" (Gamble & Huff) – 3:23
  2. A Top 10 hit by The Soul Survivors in 1967; recorded by Booker T. and the M.G.'s in 1968.
  3. "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" (Burke, Berns, Wexler) – 2:36
  4. A different version than on The Blues Brothers: Music from the Soundtrack
  5. "I Don't Know" (Mabon) – 4:16
  6. "She Caught the Katy" (Taj Mahal, Rachell) – 4:12
  7. Opening theme to The Blues Brothers, originally by Taj Mahal
  8. "Soul Man" (Hayes, Porter) – 3:03
  9. "Rubber Biscuit" (Charlie Johnson, Levy) – 3:25
  10. A different version than on Briefcase Full of Blues
  11. "Goin' Back to Miami" (Cochran) – 3:33
  12. "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Davis, M. Winwood, S. Winwood) – 3:07
  13. "'B' Movie Boxcar Blues" (McClinton) – 4:08
  14. "Flip, Flop & Fly" (Calhoun, Turner) – 3:39

Personnel

  • Elwood Blues – backing vocals, harmonica; lead vocals on track 6, co-lead vocals on track 1
  • "Joliet" Jake Blues – lead vocals; backing vocals on track 6
  • Steve "The Colonel" Cropper – guitar
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar
  • Murphy "Murph" Dunne – keyboards, electric piano, Wurlitzer
  • Willie "Too Big" Hall – drums
  • Steve "Getdwa" Jordan – drums, background vocals
  • Lou "Blue Lou" Marini – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
  • Matt "Guitar" Murphy – lead guitar
  • Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin – trumpet
  • Tom Malone – trombone
  • Tom "Triple Scale" Scott – tenor and alto saxophones, horn arrangements
  • Paul "The Shiv" Shaffer – keyboards, piano, background vocals, music director

    • Songs

    1Expressway to Your Heart3:24
    2Everybody Needs Somebody To Love2:36
    3I Don’t Know4:16

    References

    Best of The Blues Brothers Wikipedia
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