Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio

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these are my two favorites. someone promininet (?) did an edit of 'more than one way.,' a couple of years ago that was pleasant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fUIdrFKG2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uut17AbaxiA

andrew m., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link

*prominent

terje? rune? someone... don't feel like searching now

andrew m., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link

Full Unsung episode can be seen after some digging here:

http://tvone.tv/unsung-videos

It's one thing to see the site of The 20 Grand, but it's another thing
entirely to see someone who played there -- still in full health -- standing in front of it.

Andy K, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link

bustin makes me feel good http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

dave cool, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago) link

seven years pass...

A marvelous interview that takes him seriously:

Q: You mentioned cameos in the "Ghostbusters" video. I distinctly recall watching you perform "Ghostbusters" on Solid Gold where the show incorporated clips of Tina Turner, the Pointer Sisters, and Laura Branigan lip-syncing the title, which I thought was the coolest thing. Looking back on that, it's impressive how you, Tina Turner, and the Pointer Sisters were veteran artists and yet all of you had achieved your greatest commercial success during the second, or in Tina's case, third decade of your career at that time. I don't know if that would be possible now in the industry.

Yeah, I even had a Greatest Hits (1982) album out before "Ghostbusters". I think that was the peak of record sales, the late-'70s, early-'80s. I was born at the right time. Had I been born ten years earlier, there were no album sales in the '60s. It's like being a session musician. There's a window that I happened to fall in where people could make money. You can't do that now in studio work. There's not enough studio work. In the '70s, studio musicians were making as much as the artists. You could make a fortune. Some of it is "I'm great!" and some of it is just timing. If I had done the exact same thing ten years earlier or ten years later, that wouldn't have been it.

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 December 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link

three years pass...

New interview: https://www.popmatters.com/ray-parker-jr-interview-2023

niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Monday, 6 March 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link


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