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“All right, people. The rest of the hardworking all-star Blue Brothers are going to be out here in a minute including my little brother, Jake. But right now I’d like to talk a little bit about this tune you’re hearing. This is of course the “Green Onions” tune. It was a very, very big hit back in the early 60s in this country. And, of course, it was composed and recorded in Memphis, Tennessee right here in the United States of America. And you know, people, I believe that this tune can be equated with the great classical music around the world. Well, now you go to Germany you got your Bach, your Beethoven, your Brahms. Here in America you got your Fred McDowell, your Irving Berlin, you Glen Miller, and your Booker T and the MGs, people.

Another example of the great contributions in music and culture that this country has made around the world. And as you look around the round world today you see this country spurned, you see backs turned on this country. Well, people, I’m going to tell you something. This continent of North America is the stronghold. This is where we are going to make our stand in this decade. Yeah, people. I got something to say to the state department. I say take that archaic Monroe Doctrine and that Marshall Plan that says we’re supposed to police force the world and throw ‘em out. And stay home for the next ten years, people. Stay right here in North America and enjoy the music and culture that is ours.

Yeah, I got one more thing to say. I’m just talking about the music, people, and what it does to me. And that is… as you look around the round world you go to the Soviet Union, or Great Britain, or France, you name any country… everybody is doing flips and twists just to get into a genuine pair of American blue jeans. And to hear this music, and we got it all here in America, the land of the Chrysler 440 cubic inch engine!”

Elwood Blues' commentary on the song Green Onions on the album The Blues Brothers:Made In America

First starting out on Saturday Night Live, The Blues Brothers Jake Blues and Elwood Blues were the first band to combine Chicago Rock and Blues' Horns in the same Band. As a review band they played Blues, Rythm and Blues, Soul, Rock, Jazz, on a very rare occasion a bit of country and Bluegrass ("but Corribian is somthing that is not, has not, nor will ever be a part of this bands repatior." as Elwood explained once.) They have played at the Universal Amblum Theater, the Palace Hotel Ballroom, Queen Musette's Battle of the Bands, and have played with Blues and Soul greats such as Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Cab Calloway, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Isaac Hayes, and Blues Traveler.

Best line: Jake: (In a Hungarian accent) How much for the little girl. The women. How much for the women? Family Man: What? Jake: Your women. I want to buy your women. Your little girl, your daughters. Sell them to me. Sell me your children! Listen to this sound here.. <bgsound src="http://www.nederpoparchief.com/bluesbrothers/howmuch.wav">