Ray Parker Jr. the "Ghostbusters" theme song for a Halloween party. Parker was highlighted on TV One's series, "Unsung" in the fifth season. Parker's father died of cancer on March 12, 1992, at age 82; his mother died of Alzheimer's on December 18, 1993, at age 83. At age 40, in 1994, he married his wife, Elaine. They have four sons: Ray III (Little Ray), Redmen, Gibson, and Jericho. In 2014, Parker received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to music. In 1984 Huey Lewis sued Columbia Pictures and Parker, stating that the melody to the "Ghostbusters" theme
Huey Lewis and the News "Sports" album, which had just been released at the time, and didn't have time to write a main theme for a movie. The filmmakers gave film footage – with the Huey Lewis song in the background – to Ray Parker Jr., to aid Parker in writing the theme song. The band is mentioned numerous times in Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel, "American Psycho", and the subsequent film. The chapter in the novel is entitled "Huey Lewis & the News," and consists of an extended essay about the band's recorded output and career. During the scene in the film where the