The music of 'The Blues Brothers'

• 'On a mission from God'

(CNN) -- Several noted R&B singers and musicians played roles -- and songs -- in "The Blues Brothers." Among them:

Cab Calloway. The jazz elder statesman led a rousing version of his best-known song, "Minnie the Moocher."

Aretha Franklin. The "Queen of Soul," playing bluesman Matt "Guitar" Murphy's wife, stopped the show with a performance of "Think."

James Brown. The "Godfather of Soul," playing a preacher, inspires Jake Blues (John Belushi) with roof-raising gospel performance of "The Old Landmark."

Ray Charles. As the owner of a pawn shop, willing to "throw in the black keys for free" of the electric piano the Blues Brothers want to buy, he plays "Shake a Tail Feather."

Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn. The guitarist and bassist from Booker T. and the MGs, the Stax Records house band, gave the Blues Brothers Band instant credibility.

John Lee Hooker. The bluesman played "Boom Boom."

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