# Soul Man — Missing or Misremembered Scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, beer\ **Created:** [March 10, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410 "2025-03-10T22:44:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/1 "2025-03-10T22:44:48Z")
Watched _Soul Man_ on DVD, first time seeing it in decades. **allthegood** had never seen it, just the SNL skits. I saw scenes I remembered from before — especially the one where they perform behind chicken wire and rednecks throw beer bottles at the performers. But I also “remember” a scene that never showed up! The Blues Brothers get booked at a Very Black venue where no white performers (or audience members) ever go. As with the redneck venue, they’re off to a rather iffy start with incredulous audience staring at them & no applause, but as with the redneck audience they win them over with good music. So where am I remembering that from if it isn’t in the damn movie? Could it have been a Blues Bros SNL skit I’m remembering? The sequel movie from 2000? Some completely unrelated movie? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/2 "2025-03-10T22:46:54Z")
Not the Buddy Holly Story? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_wV_4ybv2CM/hqdefault.jpg "The Buddy Holly Story Live at the Apollo") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wV_4ybv2CM) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/3 "2025-03-10T23:22:47Z")
I don’t think you were watching [Soul Man](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0091991/) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/4 "2025-03-10T23:30:33Z")
Well, after the Blues Brothers play their opening number at the Palace Hotel Ballroom, the audience is stone cold silent, but then begins to warm up to them the more they play. But it was a pretty white crowd in that scene. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/5 "2025-03-10T23:41:44Z")
Maybe you’re thinking of _Adventures in Babysitting_? > **[Adventures in Babysitting - Babysitting Blues](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=552PLnE61TM?1)** > > "Babysitting Blues" from Adventures in Babysitting. It stars Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Anthony Rapp, Keith Coogan, and a brief cameo by blues singer/guit... ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/6 "2025-03-11T00:16:47Z")
No, he’s thinking of _Blue Velvet_. It’s a common error. > **[Roy Orbison - In dreams - from the movie Blue Velvet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0PbwLTLKA4%240)** > > Snipped it from the movie because I like this scene. Cool David Lynch movie from the 80s. Cool song. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/7 "2025-03-11T00:20:22Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I don’t think you were watching [Soul Man](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0091991/) Even linking to that page is probably a hate crime. > [@AHunter3](#): > > So where am I remembering that from if it isn’t in the damn movie? You’re probably thinking of the black club scene from _Animal House_. You got Belushi on your brain. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/8 "2025-03-11T01:45:15Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > _Animal House_. You got Belushi on your brain. That makes sense! ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/9 "2025-03-11T02:52:47Z")
Did Blues Brothers have a different name or did I have a stroke and not remember Soul Man correctly? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/10 "2025-03-11T03:44:14Z")
> [@pirviii](#): > > Did Blues Brothers have a different name or did I have a stroke and not remember Soul Man correctly? You might want to call your doctor. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/11 "2025-03-11T21:17:28Z")
> [@pirviii](#): > > Did Blues Brothers have a different name or did I have a stroke and not remember Soul Man correctly? Where the confusion may come from is that the Blues Brothers covered the Sam and Dave song ‘Soul Man’, which got a decent amount of airplay at the time. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/12 "2025-03-11T22:38:02Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Where the confusion may come from is that the Blues Brothers covered the Sam and Dave song ‘Soul Man’, which got a decent amount of airplay at the time. And Lou Reed covered “Soul Man” for the soundtrack of the unbelievably tasteless movie of that name, which probably was the low point of his career, “Metal Machine Music” notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/13 "2025-03-11T23:33:30Z")
> [@pirviii](#): > > did I have a stroke and not remember Soul Man correctly? The Blues Brothers: well received and loved movie about two (white) brothers, Jake and Elwood, who play blues music (and fight Illinois nazis) with a mixed race band. They get beer bottles thrown at them while playing in the redneck bar. Soul Man: atrocious film about a white guy who masquerades as a “brother” to get into law school, using blackface. It’s about as bad as you can imagine, and it wasn’t any better when it was new 40 years ago. Animal House: John Belushi film about asshole frat bothers included a scene in a bar with the scary ass black dudes™ who ask “can we dance with your dates?” Blazing Saddles: non-Belushi film that asks the question “where the white wimmen at?” The 70s and 80s were a weird and wacky time. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410/14 "2025-03-12T19:08:57Z")
_”Mind if we dance with yo’ dates?”_