"i love you like you are" (1991 MCA records)


WOW! Few may know I love newjack, but I did not think Ray Parker Jr succomb to the knees of teddy and his gang and attemped to be hip 4 the Bobby Brown fans.....

Good on him I'll say. He gets one time rapper/playgirl Father "lisa baby" MC to rap on 2 tracks. Father wrote a third, on his own and Ray sings it! Weird stuff?

I guess Ray loved young Father Time?



No offence to Ray fans, but Ray was MOR r'n'b really, so I guess the hardcore hate this album minus the ballads. The production is definately swing though. With the misoginsytically titled "she needs to get some" being the catchiest on the album. Odd album.....

Ray got this album going on!
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The Ghostbusters guy?

Truthfully, aside from his Ghostbusters chart topper, he had a few great songs from his early solo career and his group Raydio. I could look up his career to see all that he's done, but he was very good during the late 70's & early 80's.

Some of my favorite songs from him,

Two places at the same time
You can't change That
Jack & Jill
For those about to groove, we salute you
The Other Woman

thesexofit said:

You gotta go back further than Ghostbusters, dude. Ray was R&B, and good R&B at that. His Raydio stuff was really well done and better than most of his solo stuff. Tunes like Jack and Jill, You Can't Change That, Two Places at the Same Time and A Woman Needs Love all came out years before Ghostbusters or any of his solo stuff.

He was also a great musician, songwriter and producer in his time. He was a popular session musician in the 70s, and he wrote songs for Rufus and Chaka, New Edition (the excellent Mr. Telephone Man), Deniece Williams and others. His solo stuff was just okay to me, but the tunes he made with Raydio are classic R&B.

And if I'm not mistaken, he recorded Mr. Telephone Man first. Could be wrong.

"Going Thru School & Love" was
the JAM!!!, back in the day.....

"GHOSTBUSTERS"....YUK!!!!

Yeah, Ray was great (especially with Raydio). Unfortunately, a number of his fans are unaware of most of his pre-Ghostbusters material; IMO, that's the only stuff worth listening to.

"Two Places at the Same Time"
"You Can't Change That"
"It's Time To Party Now"
"The Other Woman"
"For Those Who Like To Groove"
"Bad Boy"
"The People Next Door"
"A Woman Needs Love"
"Jack and Jill"

i just cant get over loving you!

Ray had some of everything. He had some hardcore funk in his Raydio days with "For Those Who Like To Groove", "Still In The Groove", "Hot Stuff", etc. He had rock also with "The Other Woman" and he also had some great ballads like "Let Me Go", "A Woman Needs Love", etc.. My alltime favorite Ray Parker, Jr. track is "Invasion" from his "Woman Out Of Control" album.

I hated "Ghostbusters". It was a total joke.

I didn't know he had a 1991 album but I'm sure it's not my taste if it was released in 1991. I can just imagine what it might sound like.
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Favorite songs...

"Jack and Jill" (1978)
"You Can't Change That"(1978)
"There's More Than One Way To Love A Woman"(1979)
"Hot Stuff"(1979)
"Two Places At The Same Time"(1980)
"For Those Who Like To Groove"(1980)
"Tonight's The Night"(1980)
"It's Time To Party Now"(1980)
"A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)"(1981)
"It's Your Night" (1981)
"Bad Boy"(1983)
"Jamie"(1984)
"I Don't Think That Man Should Sleep Alone"(1987)
"Over You" with Natalie Cole (1987)
"You Shoulda Kept A Spare"(1987)
"Perfect Lovers"(1987)


Best Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio album: 'Two Places At The Same Time' (1980)
Best solo Ray Parker Jr. album: 'After Dark'(1987)

RipHer2Shreds said:

He wrote and produced this song for New Edition in 1984,but I don't think he ever released his own version.I could be wrong though.

I love "mr telephone man".....

Remember he wrote a track for my man glenn Medeiros. It was called "all I'm missing is you" and is a pop uptempo number.....there was a video etc.....back in 1990?

Oh well. Looks like I schooled u guys and u schooled me.

I think few fans even know this album existed.
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On more than one occasion,Ray Parker Jr. has been accused of "ripping off" ideas from other songs.Y'all know about the whole "Ghostbusters" lawsuit,where Huey Lewis claimed that it sounds alot like his song "I Want A New Drug".Some people say that Ray's 1987 hit "I Don't Think That Man Should Sleep Alone" sounds suspiciously like Patti Austin's 1986 hit "The Heat Of Heat".I also think his 1983 hit "I Still Can't Get Over Loving You" had to have been inspired by the Police's song "Every Breath You Take".It has the exact same stalker theme,the same midtempo pace,and it even includes the familiar lyric...

"every breath you take,I'll be watching you girl"

DavidEye said:

I wasn't sure, so I checked allmusic. He recorded it before, but not on his own:

Parker also wrote and produced hits for New Edition ("Mr. Telephone Man" — Parker originally recorded this with Jr. Tucker for his 1983 self-titled Geffen album)

Wow, I forgot all about "I Don't Think That Man Should Sleep Alone". My most prominent memory about that song is the end of the video where he kisses the leading lady. His tongue continuously is slipping in and out like as snake as he is kissing her. It was weird.

I loved Ray Parker Jr. more as a collaporator than a soloist,,,I guess he wasted ALL his intresting ideas on his collaporations.

'Jack and Jill' was one of my favorite songs when I was a kid.

I hadn't heard it in years (lost to the seas of time?) and recently downloaded it.

One thing I thought was striking when hearing it now, was how the production, especially the lush harmonies on the chorus, put me so much in mind of the MJ/Quincy Jones sound.

Was there ever any connection between Ray and Michael? Or Q?? Just curious, cause I don't recall hearing about one.

Did they have sticky fingers?

DavidEye said:

I still say "Ghostbusters" doesn't sound enough like "I Want A New Drug". But if what you post is true he does seem to have a habit of not being properly inspired.

I HAVE to mention that when Ray was a kid he was a session guy on Stevie Wonder's "Talking Book".

CynicKill said:

Ray was an early member of Stevie's band, "Wonderlove" from 1972-1973.

Good replies, honestly, but did ANYONE even know of the album before I posted it?

thesexofit said:

it's not my favorite by Ray but yep, I remember a couple of nice tracks beeing on there. didn't hit my player for quite some years... good occasion to dig it out..


...gimme a minute....


...'kay


Girl I saw you jackin' right along now

.
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DavidEye said:

I'll give you one better.....
"For Those Who Like To Groove"
is a rip-off from "One Nation Under A Groove"
And the whole "Rock On" album, had Bootsy's bass
all over it.....
Good album still.....

I like some Ray Parker Jr just could'nt stand when he say's "aw shucks" that used to get on my last nerve. anyway, Did ya'll know he also wrote, "you got the love" for Rufus & Chaka Khan.

lovedad43 said:

Yep.....

He also was a member of Marvin Gaye's touring band in the 70's as well as Barry White's. That's him on guitar on Barry White's Can't get Enough Of Your Love Baby.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Do forget about Bad Boy and Jamie. They were 80's hits too.

CynicKill said:

When I first heard "Ghostbusters" in the summer of 1984,my first thought was "This sounds just like "I Want A New Drug"! LOL..it's got a similar riff,imo.

lovedad43 said:

I think he's also playing guitar on Stevie Wonder's 1972 song "Maybe Your Baby".

That ghosstbusters video is the funniest.....BillMurrey trying to breakdance...cracks me up!








U see the connection? Ray is dressed as a telephone operator like the one the New editions boys see in their video "mr telephone man".....

Both them videos are hilarious! boby Brown gets really agressive in "mr telephone man".....
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