my best friend cody pegram and i used to run around the basement of my parents house acting out this audiobook shit was boss hawg outlaw take a knee spaceman take a knee
Wow, my brother and I had this book when I was a kid! I've had that song stuck in my head for nearly 30 years. Never dreamed I'd get to hear it again. Thanks so much for resurrecting a slice of my childhood!
I did as well, I found a pdf of the book online and let my son read along as I played the audio. Weird letting him read the very same book I read as a child. I loved this book and read it all the time.
whoyagonnacall77 Out of the blue the song hit me. Haven’t heard it in thirty plus years, but then had to search the book. And the song was exactly as I recalled. Strange.
I loved this as a kid but honestly as an adult this is still a very high quality production form the music to the writing, voice acting and sound design.
Holy crap, I remember this one too (had the audio cassette version). Lots of good memories....even if the writers wrote the thing as if they've never seen the film (of course, they probably had to simplify things a little for the target audience)
this book and cassette used to scare the shit out of me for some reason. i can still remember the sketches and drawings, pretty intense for a 5 year old lol. thanks for posting!
Dude, thank you so much for this. I had this exact book and cassette tape when I was a kid and I used to listen to it in the back of my parents' van at night on long trips. It freaked me out back then for some reason. Either way, I appreciate you taking the time to upload it. IF you happen to have Ghostbuster meet the ghost riders, please post it. I had that one too.
Wow I just found this. My mom bought this book/tape for me at Target. I remember being so disappointed they didn't use the actual sounds from the movie! That chorus intro though, has been in my head for years! When friends hear me sing it, they think I made it up. Now I can send them this link. Great memories!
I owned a copy of this on cassette when I was really little and it used to freak me out enough that i would throw it far under my bed so i wouldn't have to look at it. But i would always fish it out to listen and read again occasionally when i was feeling bold enough 😅😂
It's cool seeing this early Ghostbusters merchandize. I love how the the ghostbusters are clearly based off Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hutson. Also Ghostbusting Machine is funky as heck!
It sure is good to hear this again. I used to have this and another Ghostbusters story called Ghostbusters Meet the Ghost Riders. The Ghostbusters go to this old ghost town called Minersville and take on the Ghost Riders. Unlike this, the Ghostbustin' Machine song is played in the end, they do play just a little bit at the beginning before the story starts.
I remember this was like a comic book with a cassette tape that I had in the very early 90s. I can't believe I still remember all of the words to the song!
I used to listen to this with my best friend in his mom's girlfriends van while driving to a campground in Indiana. The year was probably 1990 or 1991.. Great memories!
I had this book when I was little and it scared the crap out of me. The illustrations of the monsters looked absolutely horrifying. I never listened to the tape and I wasn't old enough to read yet, so I assumed that the Ghostbusters just decided not to help the kids in the end and left which really upset me lol
This takes me back! It must've been around '94, I was 9 years old and a friend of mine lent me this book with the cassette tape to go with it. I never forgot this theme song, and haven't heard it until now! Even at that young age I thought it was weird that they didn't use the Ray Parker Jr. theme song, but of course I didn't understand copyright laws back then 😆 But at least the artists for this book were able to use the actors' likenesses, unlike the Ghostbusters II coloring book. That one confused my 4-year-old self back in 1989, LOL!
I wonder why Evan and Lynn were allowed to go into the house with the Ghostbusters, considering the real risk of being possessed by a demon or being fried by crossing proton streams.
Someone please tell me there’s a way to get an MP3 of this song? Cause that is amazing and our Ghostbuster group could really use it for birthday parties and the like!
lol, i had no idea this existed .Also, i loved the opening theme this recording uses ( "get a ghost busting machiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine"). Not only did it allow peterpan books to avoid paying extra money to use the original ghostbusters theme song, but its also funky as heck. Thanks for uploading!
Seeing this again was pretty cool, but I always wondered what "giant ghost busting machine" the beginning's talking about. The book's knowledge of the Ghostbusters' equipment seems, well, patchy.
I had this and the Ghost Riders one too! I wish someone could post that one, because as a kid that one actually creeped me out. I would listen to them without the books and let my imagination fill in the gaps.
I had this on cassette as a kid, and listened to it over and over.... But listening to it again now for the first time in 20+ years, I have to wonder if the writers even saw the movie.... I mean, ectomobile/van, laser rays, big ghostbusting machine? Really???
What is the name of that instrumental tune near the end? I first heard it when I was a kid in the early 80's on a Sports Illustrated Football Bloopers vhs cassette. They even played it one time on Married...with Children.
Venkman sounds like Dan Aykroyd's character in Trading Places. Stantz sounds like Charles Gray narrating Rocky Horror. Zeddemore sounds like Abraham Lincoln in Bill & Ted. And Spengler sounds like a 40-year-old man pretending to be 12.
I loved this one as a kid even though it scared me. You would think the authors would have at least seen the movie and know the "lasers" were called proton streams.
Before I heard the song on this video, I always thought it should sound like one of the "Irish Drinking Songs" from "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Strangely enough, the meter just about fits.
@wolfdragga I remember when I had this as a kid, the ghost in the commercial always scared me so we taped a piece of paper over that part of the picture. So right there with you.
Don't get me wrong. I definitely had a fondness for this book and tape as a kid. But well before finding this video, as I would think back on it, my thoughts are more like "Wow... the voice acting isn't even TRYING to sound like the original actors. Only a handful of illustrations do they even look like Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson. Despite being a licensed Ghostbusters bit of merchandise, they don't even use the theme song and instead have this weird 80s synth thing. And the ending reveal is straight out of Scooby-Doo." What an odd bit of nostalgia.
