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1984-Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters
What rhymes with "Ghostbusters"? No doubt about it, Ray Parker Jr. had a daunting task before him when he was asked to write the title theme for a major motion picture that starred Saturday Night Live alumni Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray along with Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson. Not only that, he had just a few days to complete the entire track. During a pre-release screening of the movie, Parker noticed that the ghost-busting quartet had their own telephone number which gave him the idea the song should be like a commercial. After hearing Parker's finished track, the movie's director, Ivan Reitman, thought that it should be a single, which took Parker somewhat aback as he was used to singing about girls not ghosts. The million-selling "Ghostbusters" went to number one R&B for two weeks and number one pop for three weeks in the summer of 1984.
