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let's write a song for Benson."

And then afterwards, you know, we'd hang.

"See if you can come up with a verse?"

I said, like, "I'm just going to

walk away for 20, 30 minutes.

I'll just go do something.

And I'll come back and see where you're at."

And I came up with a, you know...

[playing piano]

I had come back and he's got

the intro and the verse nailed.

And I'm going, "This is great.

This tune is shaping up great."

And I came up with that part, and he says,

"Hey, man, I gotta take a sh*t. I'll be right back."

I'm sitting on the shitter,

I pop a deuce,

and the melody comes into my head.

I've got the groove,

I've got the melody,

I've got the bass part...

I've got the chorus to the song.

And I'm going, "I've got to get off

the can as fast as I can, man."

I'm doing my best to get off the can.

And as fast as I can!

And he comes back,

and he starts singing Turn Your Love Around.

And we were laughing because Jay when he'd...

He had one of his 0CD things...

He has to take of all of his clothes,

be completely naked when he takes a sh*t.

Jay is gonna kill me for that.

Turn your love around

Don't you turn me down

I can show you how

Turn your love around

Unlike Dave and Jay,

I just wanted to be a star.

I want to see my face on the TV screen.

My mama didn't understand what I was doing.

I came home with a record one time...

and I was so excited.

And she would look at the record and go,

"I don't see you."

And you know what? In all fairness, she was right.

I was wrong. She was right.

Well, why don't you see me?

And so, one day I thought about it.

I said, "Well, you know what? I gotta cut a record

where my face is on the front." Well, I did it.

I've started writing songs,

then I decided to cut my own music

which I thought I was going to record

with this tune I wrote called

You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.

You make me Feel like dancing

I'm gonna dance The night away

Number one record,

won the Grammy which... That's a whole another story.

And I had another tune called Jack and Jill.

Jack snuck down the hill

He snuck down the hill

So, Clive Davis got wind of Jack and

Jill, and he thought that was a smash.

So he heard it, he loved it, and we

sold almost two million of those.

Only a few people get phenomena,

and only a couple of people get hits.

And it's more important,

to have a classic song

that is to have a number one song.

First of all,

I never ever could possibly

imagine that I could write a song

that would become part of worldwide folklores.

It's not even American folklore.

Ghostbusters

While I was in California,

I'll never forget, I had...

dinner at Spagos,

and across the street was this black billboard,

and every week, or so many days,

they'd put different things around.

So now they got the circle board up

"I wonder what that is?"

Well, guess what, the phone rings,

Here's Gary LaMel from Columbia

Pictures and he's saying, "Ray,

There's a movie coming out."

He says, "Have you seen these black

posters where we got the circle?"

He says, "By the time we get the ghost inside

the movie's coming out, okay.

So, this is gonna happen fast."

And he says, "We've now spent a year,

a year and a half calling everybody.

We've hired everybody, we've

spent millions of dollars,

but the director is insistent

upon the word Ghostbusters.

Must be in the song."

Ghostbusters

Well, I told Gary, I said, "Well, that's nice,

but I'm going back to Detroit.

I'm not doing this. I'm like, sorta...

Not retired but sorta retired.

And you mean if you don't like it I

get to keep the..." He says, "Yeah."

"if we hate it, and you turn us the

music, you get to keep the fifty grand."

Stayed up two or three clays, wrote

the song and gave it to him,

and the director Ivan Reitman

called me at 3:
30 in the morning.

He loved it.

Two weeks into this deal

Clive Davis said, "We sold

four million records overseas

just on imports."

And at the meetup festival

they were already presenting me

with a ten million selling album award.

To this day people ask me, "Are

you tired of hearing people say,

'Who you're gonna call?'" Well, no!

It's like, "Am I tired of

holding the best lotto ticket,

or the best thing that ever happened?" No.

Who you gonna call?

Ghostbusters!

Who can you call?

Ghostbusters

Whoo!

Justin's amazing!

[Justin] Nearly ten years

I've been playing with Pink.

It's been one of the most

amazing experiences of my life.

It's a cool process because

we all have a lot of input.

She really let's us be ourselves.

And it comes across live.

People feel that, people see that.

Pretty, pretty please, Don't you ever, ever feel

Like you are less than

For me it's important that I create

a family atmosphere for all of us

because it just makes for a healthier environment.

Like you are less than

You are perfect to me

To be a musician and feel like

you're being looked after

makes you want to do a better job and do a great job,

because you know that you're being

looked after and you're appreciated,

and you feel appreciated.

So, it just makes everyone feel like

they wanna be their best at all times.

[man] The bar is high.

So we have to be right there with her.

[Mark] As a hired gun,

I'm there to be a supportive band member.

To the artist, to the other musicians,

to the audience.

I have the most brilliant, wonderful,

best ever band.

Give them a hand.

Mark Shulman on the drums!

Sometimes,

I look out at the audience

and it doesn't look like anybody's looking at me.

But I think,

"Why should they look at me?"

They can look at Pink!

Yeah!

We're perfect

Oh, perfect

To Me

Like you are less than

[man] I'm so thankful I've got

all these people in my life

because it's just been an awesome ride, man.

You know, there's just...

F***in' nothing like it, man.

The first time I heard

something I did on the radio...

It was definitely uncredited,

I knew it was me.

Well, you look at the Billboard top 100,

and you're, like, on 30 of the songs in

the Top 100, or something like that.

And they never include us in any of

the documentaries for these records.

And we had a lot to do with them.

More so than people realize.

I'm of a mind where if anybody

does anything on a recording

they should be credited for it.

Whereas, there's a lot of records

that you think were made by bands

by themselves in that era and before,

where there were lots of the

side people playing on them.

They just didn't credit them.

[music playing]

You know, Stranglehold is a big song for him.

And, of course, in turn a huge song for me.

But most people think Ted sings it.

What they don't realize is that I'm the voice,

that everybody thinks is Ted's voice.

[music playing]

Songs like Snakeskin Cowboys, songs like Dog Eat Dog,

Songs like Stormtroopin',

songs like, of course, Stranglehold.

The song I wrote, Hey Baby,

songs like just What The Doctor Ordered.

That's me singing all that stuff.

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