Showing posts with label Blues Brothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blues Brothers. Show all posts

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Music History Today: January 26, 2023

January 26, 2014: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album with their debut album, The Heist.
The most commercially successful single released from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's debut album The Heist was  "Thrift Shop." It peaked at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis debut album The Heist

Saturday, June 4, 2022

Music History Today: June 5, 2022

June 5, 2001: Rufus Wainwright released "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" from the album Poses.
“Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk” is a song about walking a tightrope, but it’s more between having a grand time and losing yourself in the gutter.

Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright

Monday, May 30, 2022

Music History Today: May 31, 2022

May 31, 1986: "If You Leave" by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark topped out in the US at Number 4.

"If You Leave" by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) was recorded for the soundtrack to the film Pretty in Pink.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
 

Friday, March 4, 2022

Music History Today: March 5, 2022

March 5, 2006: "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" by Three 6 Mafia, from the movie Hustle & Flow, won an Oscar for Best Song.
"It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" is the theme song to the American drama film Hustle & Flow.

Hustle & Flow movie poster\

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Music History Today: March 5, 2021

March 5, 1982: John Belushi of The Blues Brothers, 33, died of a drug overdose in his bungalow at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. 

One of the founding players when Saturday Night Live burst onto television screens in 1975,
John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd dressed in black suits with black hats as the Blues Brothers in front of a police car