The New Vaudeville Band

Bob Kerr then formed his own group, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band, which continues to perform today. Lewis had revealed in a VH1 Behind The Music special that Parker had paid a financial settlement as part of the original agreement. The group enjoyed success for two years until the novelty wore off. They returned to court once again in 2001, the tables turned this time as Parker now sued Lewis for breaching a confidentiality agreement forming part of their original out of court settlement which prohibited either side from speaking about it publicly. The lead singer of the touring version of the group was Alan Klein who was billed as 'Tristram--Seventh Earl Of Cricklewood'. This ended with Lewis suing Parker, and the pair settled out of court in 1995. Only Bob Kerr from that group was interested, so he left The Bonzos to help Geoff Stephens form a touring version of The New Vaudeville Band. The producers of Ghostbusters had approached Lewis to use his song in the film, but their request was turned down, which led them to ask Parker to write a song similar to "I Want A New Drug" as the theme.

He contacted a real group called The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band which played similar music at the time. Parker was accused of plagiarising the melody from Huey Lewis & the News song "I Want A New Drug" for his 1984 #1 hit theme to Ghostbusters, released only 6 months after Lewis' hit reached #6 in the Billboard Hot 100. With Geoff receiving several requests for The New Vaudeville Band to tour, he had to put together a group as the song was recorded by studio musicians hired only for the recording session. In the mid-1970s he was a sideman in Barry White's "Love Unlimited Orchestra", before creating "The Raydio", an Acid Jazz and R&B group, in 1977, with Vincent Bohnam, Jerry Knight, and Arnell Carmichael. To his surprise, the song became a huge international hit and became a #1 song in the USA. Ray Erskine Parker Jr. is a 1980s recording artist most well known for writing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters. The New Vaudeville Band was a group created by songwriter Geoff Stephens in 1966 to record his composition "Winchester Cathedral" which was a song inspired by the dance bands of the 1920s.