When Bad Things Happen To Good Soundtracks Pt I

Oh Ray Parker Jr. We know there's a recession on and everything, but did you really have to reduce yourself to this?

Until now, the worst thing to happen to commercial television in recent years was the Diet Coke advert starring Duffy (whoever is responsible for that needs to take a long, hard look at themselves). But then the people at 118 118 said 'Do you know what? I think we can out-shit Duffy.'

So they pulled Ray Parker Jr, or 'Ray' as his friends call him, out of a cupboard, dusted him down, dressed him as a postman, bus conductor and waiter, and just when you think it couldn't get any worse, they told him to sing 'I ain't afraid of no goats'.

We hope Ray was:
a) paid a lot of money for this
b) able to apologise to his dignity before it disappeared into the ether

And don't even get us started on this:

'Somehow it ended up in Ray Parker Jr's hands.'
I think what he meant to say is:
'118 118's PR company told us to do this so we could get their shit advert on the news'.
Not exactly a mystery, is it.

It's a little known fact that Huey Lewis (and his News) were asked to write and record the Ghostbusters theme, but he refused. So they gave Ray a song which sounds a loooooot like Huey's. Huey concurred and took them to court (he won). Have a little listen to 'I Want A New Drug' and see if the judge in this court case was right to rule in Huey's favour:

We think you'll agree, he was.

But the question remains, would Huey have been afraid of goats?