Hi
My dad is searching for any song of this band , he says he had an album many years ago , but he lost it , any info about these guys is welcome .

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never too old or young to rocknroll!!!!!!

there are several bands called the King Bees. try kingbees.com and see if these are the guys you are talking about, I think they have been around the longest.

The one he's probably thinking of put out a couple of records before they disbanded around 1980 or so...it was a rockabilly trio and i wanna say the guitarist's name was something like jimmy james - they were good - saw them circa 1979.....

I was thinking of the Bees from SNL. I think thats how the blues brothers started. In a Beez sketch.

StonesTod Wrote:
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> The one he's probably thinking of put out a couple
> of records before they disbanded around 1980 or
> so...it was a rockabilly trio and i wanna say the
> guitarist's name was something like jimmy james -
> they were good - saw them circa 1979.....



Tod - You feeling ok? This message was absent the sarcasm and cynicism that typically accompany your posts;-)

I've not been around these parts much of late. Is this the new kinder, gentler you?

ryanpow Wrote:
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> I was thinking of the Bees from SNL. I think thats
> how the blues brothers started. In a Beez sketch.


no - the Blues Bros started based on an idea that Belushi got from Robert Cray's singer at the time - a guy named Curtis Salgado during the filming of Animal House in Eugene in 1978...

Yeah, Mr. Miller - I've been reborn. I frown up those acting like I used to and will not tolerate such abuses. You okay with that, you moron?



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StonesTod Wrote:
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> Yeah, Mr. Miller - I've been reborn. I frown up
> those acting like I used to and will not tolerate
> such abuses. You okay with that, you moron?


That's the Tod I know! Glad to see you're you!

>
> no - the Blues Bros started based on an idea that
> Belushi got from Robert Cray's singer at the time
> - a guy named Curtis Salgado during the filming of
> Animal House in Eugene in 1978...


Interesting I did not know that. Nor did I know animal house was filmed in Eugene. The blues brothers movie was pretty funny, but I dont really consider them serious music. Its just for fun.

however, I do like their arrangement of "everybody Needs somebody to love". the horns are different on it. the SNL band must have thought of that



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ryanpow Wrote:
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> >
> > no - the Blues Bros started based on an idea
> that
> > Belushi got from Robert Cray's singer at the
> time
> > - a guy named Curtis Salgado during the filming
> of
> > Animal House in Eugene in 1978...
>
>
> Interesting I did not know that. Nor did I know
> animal house was filmed in Eugene. The blues
> brothers movie was pretty funny, but I dont really
> consider them serious music. Its just for fun.

Perhaps they weren't serious musicians, but their backing band had some serious musicians in it (Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Steve Cropper, to name two), plus both Akroyd and Belushi were avid blues fans, although I have always thought they were more soul/R and B (perhaps because of Dunn and Croppers presence?).

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this is probably the band you are talking about

Thank you for the info guys!
My dad will tell me if they were or not

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never too old or young to rocknroll!!!!!!

Happy Jack Wrote:
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> ryanpow Wrote:
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> > >
> > > no - the Blues Bros started based on an idea
> > that
> > > Belushi got from Robert Cray's singer at the
> > time
> > > - a guy named Curtis Salgado during the
> filming
> > of
> > > Animal House in Eugene in 1978...
> >
> >
> > Interesting I did not know that. Nor did I know
> > animal house was filmed in Eugene. The blues
> > brothers movie was pretty funny, but I dont
> really
> > consider them serious music. Its just for fun.
>
> Perhaps they weren't serious musicians, but their
> backing band had some serious musicians in it
> (Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Steve Cropper, to name
> two), plus both Akroyd and Belushi were avid blues
> fans, although I have always thought they were
> more soul/R and B (perhaps because of Dunn and
> Croppers presence?).

Aykroyd was definitely a "hack" on the harp, but Belushi was a credible soul singer, if you ask me...and he took the music VERY seriously. And, you're spot on about the band - don't forget none other than future Wino Steve Jordan was on the skins, too....and it was a crack group of horns and other side players too. No, it was SERIOUS music for serious R&B fans, no doubt about it. The movie meanwhile has turned out to be one of the great cult classics....actually saw some of it being filmed...the very first scene takes place in the dorm that I lived in at the time, in fact.

BluzDude - that is definitely the band I was talking about - have both of their vinyls somewhere - saw them at the UO at the EMU Ballroom.....

as I editited in in my last post, I do like the way the blues brothers band sounds on their version of "everybody needs somebody to love". esp. the horn sect.

yeah, ryan - i think some people misunderstood the whole Blues Brothers "thing" because a couple of comedians were involved and the movie was a comedy. but, there's no doubt that belushi and aykroyd took the music itself very seriously. aykroyd has continued a blue radio show to this day....i don't think either of them knew squat about R&B or blues before the band idea came about, but they were quick studies and good students of it, if not particularly gifted....

Could also be Davie Jones and The King Bees? (later changed his name to David Bowie). Single: Liza Jane.

That's the one!