Best of The Blues Brothers

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."

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.

Track listing

All tracks recorded live, except tracks 4 & 8

1. "Expressway to Your Heart" (Gamble & Huff) – 3:23
   • A Top 10 hit by The Soul Survivors in 1967; recorded by Booker T. and the M.G.'s in 1968.
2. "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" (Burke, Berns, Wexler) – 2:36
   • A different version than on The Blues Brothers: Music from the Soundtrack
3. "I Don't Know" (Mabon) – 4:16
4. "She Caught the Katy" (Taj Mahal, Rachell) – 4:12
   • Opening theme to The Blues Brothers, originally by Taj Mahal
5. "Soul Man" (Hayes, Porter) – 3:03
6. "Rubber Biscuit" (Johnson, Levy) – 3:25
   • A different version than on Briefcase Full of Blues
7. "Goin' Back to Miami" (Cochran) – 3:33
8. "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Davis, M. Winwood, S. Winwood) – 3:07
9. "'B' Movie Boxcar Blues" (McClinton) – 4:08
10. "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 "Triple Scale" Scott – Tenor and alto saxophones, horn arrangements
• Paul "The Shiv" Shaffer – Keyboards, piano, background vocals, musical director

Notes

References

• Blues Brothers Central