that have been released to the public by Arista and Sony. These are official recordings of the song by Ray Parker Jr. Reitman pushed for the 20 second intro song to be made into a single backed by a music video. A short time later, Reitman called Parker at 3:30 or 4:30 in the morning praising the song. The next day, he finished recording and submitted a cassette tape with just under one and half minutes of the song to Reitman. He realized he could frame the song as a commercial and have the chorus scream 'Ghostbusters' instead of having to do something conventional like rhyming it. He was half-asleep one night and saw an exterminator commercial on TV. The hardest task for Parker was coming up with a rhyme for 'Ghostbusters'.

The movie producers wanted a song people could sing along with - without 'too much meaning'.

The catch was that the song was needed in two to three days since the film due to be released soon. Parker's forte was songs about romancing women. Producer Clive Davis who ran Arista at the time didn't want Parker singing a song about ghosts. In place of a music supervisor on the movie, the head of the music department at Columbia Pictures introduced Ray Parker Jr. It was described as a Ghostbusters theme song opening number for a 20 second segment at the end of the first library scene. Gary LeMel, had suggested that he try his hand at writing a song for the film. Parker knew LeMel because he used to play guitar on Barry White's records. happened to be dating a woman who was working for Gary LeMel, an old music industry friend. They did use the Pat Thrall and Glenn Hughes song for the film's ShoWest exhibitor reel. One of the demons submitted in 1983 was from Pat Thrall and Glen Hughes but it was declined and not used for the movie.

Reitman didn't like any songs he got back either. Columbia Pictures spent a lot of money to have different musicians, including Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac and Kenny Loggins, write songs to be considered as the main song for the Ghostbusters movie, but could not find one that they liked. Reitman simply wanted a song that said 'Ghostbusters' in it.

11.4 'Girls Are More Fun' Music Video ScreensĪfter test screenings in early 1984, Ivan Reitman wanted song about 20 seconds in length at the beginning of the movie when Peter and Ray enter the New York City Public Library.

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