A few years ago an excited murmur went through the Blues Brothers fan community. Somewhere, some preliminary work was being done on a new soundtrack album for the film. Exciting news, as most fans consider the soundtrack released by Atlantic Records to be somewhat lacking when it comes to representing the music from the film. For a movie that was virtually wall to wall music, the released album had a rather paltry eleven songs on it and many of them were variations of what was heard in the film. Many of the songs sported different mixes and a baritone sax could be heard in certain songs even though there is no baritone sax player in the Blues Brothers Band. And I’ve never been able to figure out where the female background singers in the album version of “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” are in the film.
Unfortunately, before too much work could be done on what was to be a two disc set, it was canceled. Word was that the label’s legal department deemed that it would be too expensive to produce.
But you can get a taste of what the new soundtrack album would have sounded like thanks to a poster over at Sound Cloud. There are 13 posted songs, five of which never made it on to the original soundtrack album. The other songs have been remixed to bring them back in line to how they sounded in the film and many of them include some of the studio chatter from the recording sessions.
You can hear the tracks here.
