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
Ray Parker Jr. Davis, Lenny Castro, Vikki Carr, Pete Escovedo, Peter Michael Escovedo, Jessy J, Marcos J. Reyes, Salvador Santana, and David Paich, and is featured on guitar on the song "Something Got Me Started" from Gallagher's most recent studio album due out in 2019. Parker also made acting appearances on the 1980s sitcom "Gimme a Break", 1984 CBS Saturday morning kids' show "Pryor's Place" (for which Parker appeared in the opening title sequence singing the theme song), "Disorderlies" (1987), "Enemy Territory" (1987), "Charlie Barnett's Terms of Enrollment" (1986) (V) aka "Terms of Enrollment "(USA: short title), two episodes of "Berrenger's" (1985), and