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's death in 1982. It is the first compilation album by the band and it was released by Atlantic Records on November 30, 1981. Along with tracks from the first three albums, ''

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'', '' The Blues Brothers: Music from the Soundtrack'' and '' Made in America'', it includes unreleased live versions of "

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". The album was remixed by Steve Jordan and Donald “Duck” Dunn. Belushi’s wife, Judith Jacklin, designed the sleeve. A special feature on ''The Best of John Belushi''

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promoting the album on ''

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''. In that segment, they lament the fact that Tom Malone was accidentally left off the credits of the album.

Track listing

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in 1967; recorded by

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Personnel

* Elwood Blues –

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are ...

, 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 The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

* Donald "Duck" Dunn –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Murphy "Murph" Dunne – keyboards, electric piano,

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* Willie "Too Big" Hall – drums on tracks 4, 8 * Steve "Getdwa" Jordan – drums, background vocals * Lou "Blue Lou" Marini –

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

, alto saxophone *

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* Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin –

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, horn arrangements * Tom "Triple Scale" Scott – tenor and alto saxophones * Paul "The Shiv" Shaffer – keyboards, piano, background vocals, music director

Certifications

References

External links

Blues Brothers Central
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