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🎸 “We’re on a mission from God!” Back when Saturday Night Live was at its absolute peak — the Golden Era (1975–1980) with the legendary original cast known as the Not Ready for Prime Time Players — two cast members turned a love for Chicago blues into comedy gold.... That’s right… The Blues Brothers. “Joliet” Jake Blues = John Belushi (lead vocals, the wild man in the black suit and Ray-Bans) Elwood Blues = Dan Aykroyd (harmonica, the cool, silent brother who carried it in a briefcase) Dressed in matching black suits, fedoras, and shades, they stormed the SNL stage (first full musical performance April 22, 1978) and blew the roof off with real blues legends backing them up. What started as a sketch became a cultural phenomenon — albums, a classic 1980 movie, and one of the most iconic musical-comedy acts ever. This right here? Pure late-70s SNL magic. Who else remembers when Saturday nights were this electric? 👇show more

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According to Dan Aykroyd, many theaters in the Southern states of USA refused to screen "The Blues Brothers" (1980) because they felt that there were too many Black people in it. Dan Aykroyd talking about it: "Interviewer: When the movie came out, it wasn't immediately a huge hit. It had to be kind of carried on a wave into distribution. Aykroyd: It really was—for that time, it was a huge hit. Yeah. The movie opened at the top and then 'Airplane!' (1980) came in. But no, it opened number at top of the box office. It made about $80,000,000. Well, $78-80,000,000 in the gross that summer. So, that's very significant. Interviewer: But you didn't have the distribution that you wanted when the movie opened Aykroyd: Well, we didn't have southern states, because the exhibitors down there didn't want the movie, because there were too many Black people in it. Can you believe that? In 1980. (Sarcastically.) Thank you very much. God bless America. Ho-ly. Interviewer: They literally, explicitly said that. (Dan confirms). That's not you interpreting their actions. Aykroyd: No, no, they refused it. Finally, when the movie did do well in business elsewhere, southern exhibitors took it on. But no, it was a hit. It was a hit that summer. And it made its money back, of course, many times over by now." ("Bullseye with Jesse Thorn" podcast, 2024 & IMDb) P.S: On this day, 46 years ago, "The Blues Brothers" (1980) was released in the USA and Canada.

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Remembering the great Cab Calloway who was born on this day in 1907. Known for his exuberant performing style, Calloway led one of the most highly regarded big bands of the swing era. Calloway was a dynamic and humorous entertainer known for his eccentric dance moves and the dramatic flair of wildly tossing his mop of hair. His signature style included a white tuxedo and an oversized baton, complementing his energetic performances. As a vocalist, Calloway possessed an extraordinary range, earning him praise as “the most unusually and broadly gifted male singer of the ’30s.” He began leading his own bands in 1928 and moved to New York City the following year. In 1931, he became a bandleader at the iconic Cotton Club, where his orchestra, alongside Duke Ellington’s, became one of the two house bands most synonymous with the legendary Harlem venue. That same year, he recorded his most famous composition, “Minnie the Moocher,” showcasing his talent for scat singing. Other hits from the 1930s included “Saint James Infirmary,” “Kickin’ the Gong Around,” “Reefer Man,” “The Lady with the Fan,” “Long About Midnight,” “The Man from Harlem,” and “Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding Day.” Calloway also had a successful side career as an actor. He appeared in several motion pictures, including The Big Broadcast (1932), Stormy Weather (1943), Sensations of 1945 (1944), and The Cincinnati Kid (1965). George Gershwin had conceived the role of “Sportin’ Life” in his 1935 jazz opera Porgy and Bess for Calloway; the entertainer finally got his chance at the part during a heralded world tour of the show in 1952–54. In the 1960s, Calloway appeared on Broadway and on tour in Hello, Dolly!, portraying the role of Horace Vandergelder opposite Pearl Bailey as Dolly Levi, and he again starred on Broadway in the 1970s in the hit musical Bubbling Brown Sugar. His best-known acting performance was also his last, as a jive-talking music promoter in director John Landis’s comedy The Blues Brothers (1980). The film featured Calloway singing “Minnie the Moocher” every bit as energetically and eccentrically as he had performed it in 1931. Here, he is performing “Hi-De-Ho” in 1934.

Remembering the great Cab Calloway who was born on this day in 1907. Known for his exuberant performing style, Calloway led one of the most highly regarded big bands of the swing era. Calloway was a dynamic and humorous entertainer known for his eccentric dance moves and the dramatic flair of wildly tossing his mop of hair. His signature style included a white tuxedo and an oversized baton, complementing his energetic performances. As a vocalist, Calloway possessed an extraordinary range, earning him praise as “the most unusually and broadly gifted male singer of the ’30s.” He began leading his own bands in 1928 and moved to New York City the following year. In 1931, he became a bandleader at the iconic Cotton Club, where his orchestra, alongside Duke Ellington’s, became one of the two house bands most synonymous with the legendary Harlem venue. That same year, he recorded his most famous composition, “Minnie the Moocher,” showcasing his talent for scat singing. Other hits from the 1930s included “Saint James Infirmary,” “Kickin’ the Gong Around,” “Reefer Man,” “The Lady with the Fan,” “Long About Midnight,” “The Man from Harlem,” and “Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding Day.” Calloway also had a successful side career as an actor. He appeared in several motion pictures, including The Big Broadcast (1932), Stormy Weather (1943), Sensations of 1945 (1944), and The Cincinnati Kid (1965). George Gershwin had conceived the role of “Sportin’ Life” in his 1935 jazz opera Porgy and Bess for Calloway; the entertainer finally got his chance at the part during a heralded world tour of the show in 1952–54. In the 1960s, Calloway appeared on Broadway and on tour in Hello, Dolly!, portraying the role of Horace Vandergelder opposite Pearl Bailey as Dolly Levi, and he again starred on Broadway in the 1970s in the hit musical Bubbling Brown Sugar. His best-known acting performance was also his last, as a jive-talking music promoter in director John Landis’s comedy The Blues Brothers (1980). The film featured Calloway singing “Minnie the Moocher” every bit as energetically and eccentrically as he had performed it in 1931. Here, he is performing “Hi-De-Ho” in 1934.

The Jazz Estate

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🔴Boyz II Men Neutralized: How Capitalism Appropriated Black Artistic Momentum to Build the Late-1990s White Boy Band Era Black America created jazz. Black America created rock and roll. Black America created rap/hiphop. These genres were born from the lived experience, spiritual traditions, rhythmic innovation, and cultural resistance of Black communities in the United States whose ancestry comes from West Africa. The polyrhythms, call and response structures, tonalities, and communal performance traditions carried across the Atlantic survived slavery, segregation, and systemic exclusion, transforming into distinctly American art forms forged through struggle and survival. Yet at pivotal moments in American history, the commercial breakthrough of these genres flowed disproportionately through white performers positioned as more marketable to mass audiences. The rise of Elvis Presley followed the foundational work of Black rhythm and blues artists who had already defined rock and roll. The global dominance of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones drew directly from Black American blues traditions they studied and replicated. Time and again, original Black artistic expression generated the cultural momentum, while corporate systems elevated white performers as the primary vehicles of large scale profit and distribution. The pattern is structural: Black innovation establishes the sound, and capitalist industry redirects its mass commercialization. Boyz II Men stood within that lineage of Black creative power. Their harmonies, phrasing, and emotional depth carried forward a tradition shaped by gospel, soul, and doo-wop. When they achieved massive crossover success in the early 1990s, they demonstrated once again that Black artistry defined the center of American popular music. Yet following the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the consolidation of radio ownership, corporate control over playlists and promotion intensified. In the same historical rhythm seen with rock and blues, the late 1990s white boy band explosion rose through a commercial system that adopted R and B vocal structures and performance aesthetics while redirecting scale and capital toward acts framed as universally marketable. The result reflects a recurring American reality: Black communities create the cultural foundation, and capitalist expansion transforms that foundation into mass profit streams often detached from its original creators.

🔴Boyz II Men Neutralized: How Capitalism Appropriated Black Artistic Momentum to Build the Late-1990s White Boy Band Era Black America created jazz. Black America created rock and roll. Black America created rap/hiphop. These genres were born from the lived experience, spiritual traditions, rhythmic innovation, and cultural resistance of Black communities in the United States whose ancestry comes from West Africa. The polyrhythms, call and response structures, tonalities, and communal performance traditions carried across the Atlantic survived slavery, segregation, and systemic exclusion, transforming into distinctly American art forms forged through struggle and survival. Yet at pivotal moments in American history, the commercial breakthrough of these genres flowed disproportionately through white performers positioned as more marketable to mass audiences. The rise of Elvis Presley followed the foundational work of Black rhythm and blues artists who had already defined rock and roll. The global dominance of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones drew directly from Black American blues traditions they studied and replicated. Time and again, original Black artistic expression generated the cultural momentum, while corporate systems elevated white performers as the primary vehicles of large scale profit and distribution. The pattern is structural: Black innovation establishes the sound, and capitalist industry redirects its mass commercialization. Boyz II Men stood within that lineage of Black creative power. Their harmonies, phrasing, and emotional depth carried forward a tradition shaped by gospel, soul, and doo-wop. When they achieved massive crossover success in the early 1990s, they demonstrated once again that Black artistry defined the center of American popular music. Yet following the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the consolidation of radio ownership, corporate control over playlists and promotion intensified. In the same historical rhythm seen with rock and blues, the late 1990s white boy band explosion rose through a commercial system that adopted R and B vocal structures and performance aesthetics while redirecting scale and capital toward acts framed as universally marketable. The result reflects a recurring American reality: Black communities create the cultural foundation, and capitalist expansion transforms that foundation into mass profit streams often detached from its original creators.

Horn of Africa Leftists

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