Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio

also, it is always a good idea to rep "Me" from the debut over and over again. ditto "A Woman Needs Love."

Television event of the year tonight: the Ray Parker Jr. episode of Unsung.

http://tvone.tv/unsung-videos?pid=2TjW0eH0Mu3zeREzxzwkGN6CNttvkju9&cat=1

Ray Parker Jr. pre-Ghostbusters Arbitrary Road Map. He did one, some, or all of the following things on each song: guitar, songwriter, producer, other instruments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ryNyPEyqA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOegUBz1QzM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63zOqDYB0Ko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsoev9raCvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M98ZCnSuuRQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rju9b_Uk8Sw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soV9PE5dHyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDgbBjeMy90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CaE7cssEx4

This accounts for a very small percentage of his career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AYgpqkfT14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGTsqjTJsBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBHAPaH5GjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TETznfG-O-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA-4F6l-jr4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFjhdqB4_EY

‎"I said, 'Ray -- if you're gonna sing...let me otta this group.'"

Good lord, it's a goldmine.

"I Still Can't Get Over Loving You" is one of the loveliest synth-pop melodies to grace the top 40. It's Human League worthy!

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

*prominent

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

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.

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

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.

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