Blurb:
"Ghostbusters" is a song recorded by Ray Parker Jr. as the theme to the film of the same name starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 11 in 1984, and stayed there for three weeks. It also reached number two on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in summer 1984. The song is performed in the key of B major.
According to Parker, he was approached by the film's producers to create a theme song for the film. Unfortunately, he only had a few days to do so and the film's title seemed impossible to include in any lyrics. However, when watching television late at night, Parker Jr. saw a cheap commercial for a local service that reminded him that the film had a similar commercial featured for the fictional business. This inspired him to write the song as a pseudo-advertising jingle that the business could have commissioned as a promotion.
Parker was later the defendant in a copyright-infringement lawsuit which claimed "Ghostbusters" was too similar in musical structure to "I Want a New Drug", written and performed by Huey Lewis and the News (more specifically, the guitar riff which runs through the song). "I Want a New Drug" was a U.S. top-ten hit earlier the same year. The two parties settled out of court. Details of the settlement (specifically, that Parker paid Lewis a settlement) were confidential until 2001, when Huey Lewis commented on the payment in an episode of VH1's "Behind the Music" in 2001. Parker subsequently sued Huey Lewis for breaching confidentiality; the lawsuit is ongoing. Ironically, Huey Lewis had at one point been asked to record a theme song for the movie, but turned it down for other commitments.
A recent advert for UK Directory Enquiries service 118-118 features Ray Parker Junior (multiple times in different costumes including a mailman, a mechanic, a waiter and a bus conductor) in a parody of the song he originally recorded for Ghostbusters. It alters lines slightly such as "If there's something strange, going through your head, Who Ya Gonna Call? 118!", "Who can you call? 118!" and "I ain't afraid of no goats" (shortly after he frees two goats from the back of a car). The advert also features giant versions of the 118 men, in a parody of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
"Ghostbusters" is a song recorded by Ray Parker Jr. as the theme to the film of the same name starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 11 in 1984, and stayed there for three weeks. It also reached number two on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in summer 1984. The song is performed in the key of B major.
According to Parker, he was approached by the film's producers to create a theme song for the film. Unfortunately, he only had a few days to do so and the film's title seemed impossible to include in any lyrics. However, when watching television late at night, Parker Jr. saw a cheap commercial for a local service that reminded him that the film had a similar commercial featured for the fictional business. This inspired him to write the song as a pseudo-advertising jingle that the business could have commissioned as a promotion.
Parker was later the defendant in a copyright-infringement lawsuit which claimed "Ghostbusters" was too similar in musical structure to "I Want a New Drug", written and performed by Huey Lewis and the News (more specifically, the guitar riff which runs through the song). "I Want a New Drug" was a U.S. top-ten hit earlier the same year. The two parties settled out of court. Details of the settlement (specifically, that Parker paid Lewis a settlement) were confidential until 2001, when Huey Lewis commented on the payment in an episode of VH1's "Behind the Music" in 2001. Parker subsequently sued Huey Lewis for breaching confidentiality; the lawsuit is ongoing. Ironically, Huey Lewis had at one point been asked to record a theme song for the movie, but turned it down for other commitments.
A recent advert for UK Directory Enquiries service 118-118 features Ray Parker Junior (multiple times in different costumes including a mailman, a mechanic, a waiter and a bus conductor) in a parody of the song he originally recorded for Ghostbusters. It alters lines slightly such as "If there's something strange, going through your head, Who Ya Gonna Call? 118!", "Who can you call? 118!" and "I ain't afraid of no goats" (shortly after he frees two goats from the back of a car). The advert also features giant versions of the 118 men, in a parody of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
Scroll and Sing:
If there's something strange
in your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
If there's something weird
and it don't look good
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
I ain't afraid of no ghosts
I ain't afraid of no ghosts
If you're seeing things
running through your head
Who can ya call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
An invisible man
sleeping in your bed
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
I ain't afraid of no ghosts
I ain't afraid of no ghosts
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
If ya all alone
pick up the phone
and call
GHOSTBUSTERS
I ain't afraid of no ghosts
I here it likes the ghost
I ain't afraid of no ghost
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
If you've had a dose of a
freaky ghost baby
Ya better call
GHOSTBUSTERS
Lemme tell ya something
Bustin' makes me feel good!
I ain't afraid of no ghosts
I ain't afraid of no ghosts
Don't get caught alone no no
GHOSTBUSTERS
When it comes through your door
Unless you just want some more
I think you better call
GHOSTBUSTERS
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
I think you better call
GHOSTBUSTERS
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
I can't hear you
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
Louder:
GHOSTBUSTERS
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
Who can ya call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
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