Ghostbusters (song) in the closing credits to the "Real Ghostbusters" cartoon series as well as in a trailer for the 2009 . When the theme song of "Ghostbusters" was released, Huey Lewis sued Columbia Pictures and Ray Parker Jr. for plagiarism, stating that Parker's song was too similar to Lewis's "I Want a New Drug." Lewis had been approached to compose the main theme song for the film. The three parties settled out of court. Details of the settlement (specifically, that Columbia Pictures paid Lewis a settlement) remained confidential until 2001, when Lewis commented on the payment in an episode of VH1's
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