Paul at Spook Central is constantly involved in an ongoing, personal scavenger hunt for certain Ghostbusters rarities, and he just found one of the rarest – Ray Parker Jr. performing Ghostbusters at the 57th Academy Awards ceremonies. Sadly, Parker didn’t win Best Original Song – he lost out to Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called (To Say I Love You)” – but he did get to share the stage with Dom Deluise (ask your parents). This particular Academy Awards set in stone the conventional wisdom that a comedy can never win Best Picture, as the film was overlooked in every catagory except Best Original Song and Best Visual Effects (which it also did not win.)
Head on over to Spook Central to check out the video Paul found of that singular performance!
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I have not re-watched this since seeing it live back in the day, but I remember it being horrible and embarrassing for those involved.
I agree with Lou. I had never seen this before but it was disappointingly lame. And I thought the Oscars were lame nowadays.
But it’s hilariously funny to watch. It’s like a car accident you just can’t look away…
Wow. I never thought the “cool” could be sucked out of the Ghostbusters theme. Guess I was wrong. What’s worse is that it’s Parker himself that does it!
Ugh, that was embarrassingly bad.
see, i love ghostbusters, and i love Dom Delouise, But together they should not have been….. wow, my mom always told me if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all….. yikes
After loosing those Oscars, Ghostbusters got his own Oscar on Ghostbusters 2: Dana Barrett´s son
LOL XD
That sucked, the original theme is killer cool and one of the song that will never get old but that…. aghhh!
Wow, the couldn’t even get the costumes right, they got the symbol right so i just don’t know *palmface*
Ghostbusters: The Musical? Bizarre.
The tempo is increased dramatically… the song appears to have been arranged for, and played by, the house orchestra… and this performance violates Ray Parker, Jr.’s rule that you can’t sing the word “Ghostbusters” because there’s no way to make it sound good–I’m shocked how different the song sounds without the usual chorus of girls shouting “Ghostbusters” back.
Is it just me or does Ray Parker Jr. Change the lyrics whenever he sees fit? Most of these live performances bother me.
“I ain’t afraid of “that” ghost?”
Maybe it’s a play on seeing “that” particular ghost? Either way…very bad. I enjoyed it tho. hahaha.
As I wrote in my hidden comment on my site… Now that I’ve finally seen it in its entirety, I can see why it’s stayed hidden all these years.