50 Years of Saturday Night Live

National Postcard Week 2025

50 Years of Saturday Night Live

This postcard features: Dan Aykroyd,  John Belushi, Molly Shannon, Mike Myers, The Coneheads: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, and Laraine Newman, Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Gilda Radner and Eddie Murphy as Gumby.

The Blues Brothers

Live
In Concert

The Blues Brothers

Special Guest
Jerry Garcia
July 11 - 1979
Freedom Hall
Louisville, Kentucky

This is a reproduction postcard that was bought in 2015.

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The Blues Brothers were founded by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live.  There first appeared on Saturday Night Live on January 17, 1976.

The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers
Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi

 This is and unused postcard from the House of Blues.

The Blues Brothers on Stage

The Blues Brothers
printed in 1998

Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi

Blues Brothers with their Car

The Blues Brothers

They'll never get caught.
They're on a mission from God.

starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi
(This is an oversized postcard)

The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers

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The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. It features musical numbers by R&B and soul singers James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and John Lee Hooker.

The story is a tale of redemption for paroled convict Jake (Belushi) and his brother Elwood (Aykroyd), who take on "a mission from God" to save from foreclosure the Catholic orphanage in which they grew up. To do so they must reunite their rhythm and blues band, The Blues Brothers, and organize a performance to earn $5,000 to pay the tax assessor. Along the way they are targeted by a destructive "mystery woman" (played by Carrie Fisher), Neo-Nazis, and a country and western band—all while being relentlessly pursued by the police.

Released in the United States on June 20, 1980, it received generally good reviews. It earned just under $5 million in its opening weekend and went on to gross more than $115 million in theaters worldwide before its release on home video.

The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brother by Anthony Baker

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The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live.

In 1980, The Blues Brothers movie, directed by John Landis, was released. Featuring car chases involving the Bluesmobile and musical performances by Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker, the story is set in and around Chicago, Illinois. It is a tale of redemption for the paroled convict Joliet Jake Blues and his brother Elwood as they decide to take on a "mission from God" and re-form their blues band in order to raise funds to save the Catholic orphanage where they grew up.