1984 World Series Show led the staff with fifteen wins with Ed Whitson and lefty Mark Thurmond having identical 14–8 records. But the sterling bullpen, headed by Gossage and Craig "Lefty" Lefferts, held the staff together enough to take this team to the "Big Show" although they would falter and get ripped by the Tiger bats losing the Series in five games. To get to the Series, the Padres had to overcome a two-games-to-none deficit against the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS, rallying to win the final three games. The 1984 Padres adopted Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" as their theme song (à la
Cherokee (Ray Noble song) Ko" has a partially improvised head and the chords are based on "Cherokee". It also formed the basis of Buddy DeFranco "Swinging the Indian". The song was used in "Jam Session" (1944), "Jasper in a Jam" (1946), sung by Peggy Lee, "The Gene Krupa Story" (1959), and as background music in "Racing with the Moon" (1984) and "Lush Life" (1993), a TV movie starring Jeff Goldblum and Kathy Baker. Cherokee (Ray Noble song) "Cherokee" (also known as "Cherokee (Indian Love Song)") is a jazz standard written by Ray Noble and published in 1938. It was originally intended as the first