Ray Parker Jr. background with backup singers. Parker's "Ghostbusters" video, helmed by the film's director, Ivan Reitman, was one of the first movie-themed videos to find success on MTV. Parker also wrote and produced hits for New Edition ("Mr. Telephone Man"), Randy Hall, Cheryl Lynn ("Shake It Up Tonight"), Deniece Williams ("I Found Love"), and Diana Ross. He performed guitar on several songs on La Toya Jackson's 1980 debut album. In 1989, he also wrote "Ghostbusters", a rap performed by Run-D.M.C., for the movie "Ghostbusters II". 1989 also saw Parker work with actor Jack Wagner ("General Hospital") on an album for MCA Records
Catch (The Cure song) when Stallone caught wind of this, he asked The Cure to write the theme song for his 1995 movie 'Judge Dredd'. Smith, a lifelong fan of the British comic book series, immediately began work on 'Dredd Song'. This began a friendship and in 1998 both were to lend their respective voices to an episode of South Park that would serve as a sequel to the episode Smith appeared in (in which Robert Smith saves the world from Mecha-Streissand). The episode never came to fruition due to the actor's strike but Trey Parker claimed, "We were going to have Rambo go