I'd have to go with
The Blues Brothers for some damn fine music.
Apart from Ackroyd and Belushi's covers of 'Gimme Some Lovin'', 'Everybody needs Someone to Love', 'Sweet Home Chicago' and the classic 'Theme from Rawhide', the soundtrack reads like a Who's Who of Blues and Soul music......Aretha Franklin with 'Think', James Brown with 'The Old Landmark', Cab Calloway with 'Minnie the Moocher' and the immortal Ray Charles with one of his signature tunes, 'Shake a Tail Feather'.
Some of the quotes in the film make me smile like an absolute goon:
Murph - Tell me a little about this electric piano, Ray
Ray - Ah, you have a good eye, my man. That's the best in the city of Chicago
Jake - How much?
Ray - Two thousand bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I'll throw in the black keys for free.
Murph - Aw come on Ray.....I mean, there's just no action in this keyboard
Ray closes the window behind the counter and walks to the piano
Ray - Ah, yes...excuse me, but I don't believe there isn't any action in this keyboard.
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Mrs. Murphy: Help you two?
Elwood: Do you have any white bread ma'am?
Mrs. Murphy: Yeah.
Elwood: I'll have some toasted white bread please.
Mrs. Murphy: You want butter or jam on that, honey?
Elwood: No ma'am, dry.
Jake: Do you have any fried chicken ma'am?
Mrs. Murphy: Best damned chicken in the state.
Jake: Bring me four fried chickens and a Coke.
Mrs. Murphy: You want chicken wings or chicken legs?
Jake: Four fried chickens and a Coke.
Elwood: And some dry white toast please.
Mrs. Murphy: Ya'all want anything to drink with that?
Elwood: No ma'am.
Jake: A Coke.
Mrs. Murphy: Be right back.
Mrs. Murphy: We got two honkies out there, dressed like Hasidic diamond merchants.
Matt Murphy: Say what?
Mrs. Murphy: They look like they're from the CIA, or somethin'.
Matt Murphy: What they want to eat?
Mrs. Murphy: The tall one wants white toast, dry, with nothin' on it.
Matt Murphy: Elwood.
Mrs. Murphy: And the short one wants four whole fried chickens, and a Coke.
Matt Murphy: And Jake. sh*t, the Blues Brothers.
A great movie. A fantastic soundtrack.
