Ghostbusters (song)
| Ghostbusters | |
|---|---|
| Ray Parker Jr. | |
| publication | May 1984 |
| length | 4:06 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | Ray Parker Jr. |
| Producer (s) | Ray Parker Jr. |
| Label | Arista Records |
| Award (s) | Grammy Award |
| album | Ghostbusters |
Ghostbusters is a song by Ray Parker, Jr. from 1984. It is the theme song of the movie Ghostbusters (see also Ghostbusters (soundtrack) ) and was among other things a number one hit in the US and France . It stayed number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks and number two in the UK Top 40 for three weeks .
1985 Ghostbusters in the category Best Song for the Oscar nominated, but lost to Stevie Wonder I Just Called to Say I Love You . There was a Grammy for the best instrumental performance - Pop .
In 2017, the song was used as the credits for the episode Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak in the Netflix series Stranger Things .
Music video
The music video was directed by the film director Ivan Reitman . In addition to Ray Parker, Jr. and the four Ghostbusters -Darstellern Bill Murray , Dan Aykroyd , Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson are cameo appearances also Chevy Chase , Irene Cara , John Candy , Melissa Gilbert , Ollie E. Brown , Jeffrey Tambor , George Wendt , Al Franken , Danny DeVito , Carly Simon , Peter Falk and Teri Garr can be seen. The video was viewed more than 41 million times on YouTube (as of July 2020).
Plagiarism allegation
Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker, Jr. over the similarities to the song I Want a New Drug by Huey Lewis & the News . An agreement was reached out of court.
In an article in Premiere Magazine , the film producers later admitted they had temporarily used the song I Want a New Drug as background music for numerous scenes. They also said they offered Huey Lewis & The News to write the main subject matter for the film, but the group refused. To help him write the theme song, they then provided Ray Parker, Jr. with excerpts from the film that still contained the music of Huey Lewis & The News.
New editions / covers
In the following years several new editions or cover versions of the title appeared, including Run-DMC (for Ghostbusters II , see Ghostbusters II (soundtrack) ), The Ventures , The Rasmus , Bowling for Soup (for while you are there ) and Mickael Turtle . Xentrix released a metal version as a single in 1990 . Rapper Mistah FAB used samples in his single Ghost Ride It . For Ghostbusters - remake it was from Fall Out Boy (feat. Missy Elliott ) sung. The TIME magazine found the version "nightmare-inducing" (nightmare triggering) and the Los Angeles Times "hauntingly bad" (moving bad).
Since December 2017 Dacia has been using the melody of the song with the slightly modified title line ("Go Duster") in commercials for the Dacia Duster .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official music video on YouTube
- ↑ Who Ya Gonna Call? Ghostbusters Exclusive! Inside story of a comedy classic . In: Premiere Magazine . June 2004.
- ^ Xentrix - Ghostbusters , youtube.com
- ↑ Melissa Locker: Fall Out Boy Is Here to Ruin the Ghostbusters Theme Song . In: time.com . June 23, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
- ↑ Randall Roberts: Exactly how bad is Fall Out Boy's new 'Ghostbusters' theme song? . In: latimes.com . June 23, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
- ↑ Marco Saal: Why Dacia remembers "Ghostbusters" in its Duster campaign on www.horizont.net , December 21, 2017