Ghostbusters

Tweet

Originally the producers of the Ghostbusters movie wanted Huey Lewis to write the theme song, but he had other engagements and was not available to do it. After some searching around, they finally decided to hire Ray Parker, Jr. to write a song for them. They told him, "We want something like Huey Lewis would write." So, he wrote the song, turned it in, they loved it, he recorded it and the rest was history. Kind of. Huey Lewis heard the song and immediately recognized that the Ghostbusters theme sounded almost identical to his song, "I Want a New Drug," and so he decided to sue Ray Parker, Jr. The courts agreed Ray Parker, Jr. essentially copied Huey Lewis' song and Lewis got a writing credit and collected a portion of royalties from every copy of the song sold.