BOO! Did I scare you? BOO! Did I scare you now!?! Ahhh, come on! BOO! BOO! BOO hoo hoo ... Okay, I'm not really TRYING to scare anybody. If I was really TRYING to scare all y'all, I would have used TWO exclamation points!! ;) Instead, I want to rekindle the fun of Halloween! Heck, some of us still get into costume for the occasion and that's how it SHOULD be! GO Kristine, Jamie, Jewel, Aimee, Joyce and Michael! Every year, a few EXTRA pounds lurk around each and every corner with every bite of yummy treats available at discounted prices! Often, FREE, taken from the loot of my three giddy children! In a preemptive attack; wiping sticky fingers, licked clean, I'm going to explode as I'm finishing my last delicious bite and it's not even Halloween yet; caught dipping into the precious, supposedly hidden stash. It's the one night of the year when Cat and I allow Ever, Emersen, and Cara, fistfuls of candy to devour for as long as they have the strength to open each wrapper! The spirit of Halloween brings out the child in all of us; playful and naughty; fun-loving decadence! Ohhh, come on, lighten up! It's just once a year and I'm just talkin' about costumes and candy! All of the macabre and nightmarish stuff is set aside for the fanatical types. Me: turn off the lights; throw in a few ghouls; color it up with music; add a splash of humor; and I've got a MUSIC VIDEO!!! I had to bring out the apparition in me and cover a song from one of my favorite movies for the occasion: GHOSTBUSTERS! In my BEST Vincent Price voice, "I hope like it BOOOOOOO!! Just havin' some ghoulish fun, this Halloween!!!"
From Wikipedia: "Ghostbusters" is a 1984 song recorded by Ray Parker, Jr. as the theme to the film of the same name starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 11 in 1984, and stayed there for three weeks. It also peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart on 16 September 1984, where it stayed for three weeks. The song is performed in the key of B major. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song, but lost to Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You". According to Parker, he was approached by the film's producers to create a theme song for the film. Unfortunately, he only had a few days to do so and the film's title seemed impossible to include in any lyrics. However, when watching television late at night, Parker saw a cheap commercial for a local service that reminded him that the film had a similar commercial featured for the fictional business. This inspired him to write the song as a pseudo-advertising jingle that the business could have commissioned as a promotion. The line "I ain't scared of no ghosts" came from a 1937 Mickey Mouse short, Lonesome Ghosts. Parker was later the defendant in a copyright-infringement lawsuit which claimed "Ghostbusters" was too similar in musical structure to "I Want a New Drug", written and performed by Huey Lewis and the News (more specifically, the guitar riff which runs through the song). "I Want a New Drug" was a U.S. top-ten hit earlier the same year. The two parties settled out of court. Details of the settlement (specifically, that Parker paid Lewis a settlement) were confidential until 2001, when Lewis commented on the payment in an episode of VH1's Behind the Music. Parker subsequently sued Lewis for breaching confidentiality; the lawsuit is ongoing. Ironically, Lewis had at one point been asked to record a theme song for the movie, but turned it down for other commitments. (A citation is needed for this last claim.) Lindsey Buckingham claims to have been approached to write the Ghostbusters theme based on his successful contribution to Harold Ramis's National Lampoon's Vacation (the song "Holiday Road"). He turned down the opportunity as he didn't want to be known as a soundtrack artist. He mentions this on the "Words & Music" interview disk.
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