Raydio
Raydio was the creation of Ray Parker Jnr. (b. 1 May 1954, Detroit, Michigan, USA), a songwriter who taught himself to play guitar as a teenager when laid up with a broken leg. His first group came in 1968 with Ollie Brown and Nathan Watts, and the following year he toured with the Detroit Spinners. He then joined Jeep Smith And The Troubadours who did the ‘weddings, parties, bar mitzvahs’ circuit. Their residency at the Twenty Grand in Detroit was in support of a variety of visiting soul stars. Afterwards, he became a studio musician mainly for Invictus and Hot Wax. In 1982 he played with Stevie Wonder on the The Rolling Stones tour, and Wonder also recorded some of his songs. Afterwards he journeyed to Hollywood to concentrate on his songwriting. He scored his first big hit with Rufus You've Got The Love, co-written with Chaka Khan. As a session musician he was also playing on a plethora of hits, mainly in the USA, for Marvin Gaye, Boz Scaggs, Labelle, Stevie Wonder, Barry White, and Love Unlimited. Clive Davis signed him to Arista and he assembled Raydio, with himself on vocals and guitar, Arnell Carmichael (synthesizer), Jerry Knight (bass) and Vincent Bonham (piano). He scored a hit with Jack And Jill, and found minor success with subsequent releases You Can't Change That, and Betcha Can't Love Just Once. The band changed its name to Ray Parker Jnr. And Raydio, and then simply Ray Parker Jnr. He would have a massive hit (US number 1, UK number 2) with Ghostbusters, the theme to the film of the same name, the similarity of which to Huey Lewis And The News' Power Of Love was the subject of litigation. His other solo hits include: Girls Are More Fun, and I Don't Think A Man Should Sleep Alone.