Ghostbusters (song) Ghostbusters (song) "Ghostbusters" is a song written by Ray Parker Jr. as the theme to the film of the same name starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson. Debuting at #68 on June 16, 1984, the song reached number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 on August 11, 1984, staying there for three weeks, and at number two on the UK Singles Chart on September 16, 1984, staying there for three weeks. The song re-entered the UK Top 75 on November 2, 2008, at No. 49. It was nominated at the 57th Academy Awards for Best Original
Back in the Saddle Again "Border G-Man" (RKO Pictures, June 24, 1938) starring George O'Brian, Laraine Day, and Ray Whitley in which Ray Whitley and his Six Bar Cowboys sang the song. As Ray Whitley's Rangers, Whitley recorded the song for Decca Records on 26 October 1938, matrix number 64701, issued as Decca 5628 backed with "On the Painted Desert", matrix number 64703. Gene Autry liked the song and together with Whitley revised it and recorded it in April 1939, then performed "Back in the Saddle Again" on film in "Rovin' Tumbleweeds" (Republic Pictures, November 16 1939), and introduced it as his theme song for