Death Notices

[SaffronSports]

Lol, I can remember what happened now, started from a chat/google about Otis & the Elevators! Must have veered off in the Otis Reading direction ending up with Booker T & MGs. Getting old & confused

And Mr. T is still alive just in case you wanted to involve him.

Is he Booker's brother?

[J70]

He was an understated but very influential guitarist, songwriter and producer.  It was him who took the demo of "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" and finished the song after Otis Redding died in the plane crash. Member of Booker T and the MGs, who were the house band at Stax Records and of course put out their own stuff ("Green Onions", that song the BBC used for the cricket). Wrote songs like "Soul Man" and "In the Midnight Hour". And of course, himself and Donald Duck Dunn, his colleague from the MGs, were part of the Blues Brothers band.

Huge fan of the film but must confess to knowing little about them individually other than they were an actual band for a while. Be some stories due to the sheer number of actors/musicians involved

Most of the Blues Brothers musicians were part of the Saturday Night Live band at the time (Belushi was obviously a cast member on the show then too). Cropper and Dunn were added to BB group.