The Blues Brothers scene in question is on YouTube [0] (this 5-ish minute version sets up the musical number; the shorter versions don't). That version, btw, i

The Blues Brothers scene in question is on YouTube [0] (this 5-ish minute version sets up the musical number; the shorter versions don't). That version, btw, is embedded in this interview of John Landis, the director of the film on Deadline Hollywood. Landis discusses his pleasure at having Aretha Franklin participate in the film and more [1]. He stresses an interesting point which is that the movie came out at a time when disco eclipsed other genres like the blues...to the point that some record companies passed on releasing the film's soundtrack album, thinking that it wouldn't sell (as Landis points out, it wound up going platinum [2]). And he describes how the movie was made to use Belushi's and Akroyd's celebrity to bring attention to the then-neglected previous generation of blues and R&B musicians -- apparently, it worked. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY66elCQkYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY66elCQkYk [1] https://deadline.com/2018/08/john-landis-aretha-franklin-the-blues-brothers-reminisces-john-belushi-dan-aykroyd-1202447056/ https://deadline.com/2018/08/john-landis-aretha-franklin-the... [2] https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=blues+brothers#search_section https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award...