Ray Parker Jr.’s Childhood Home

Who you gonna call? Turns out the answer grew up at 3780 Virginia Park. Born in Detroit in 1954, Ray Parker Jr. was a teenage guitar prodigy — backing Gladys Knight and playing for the Spinners before he was out of high school — who left for Los Angeles at nineteen and became one of the most in-demand session guitarists alive, recording with Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Barry White, and Tina Turner, and touring with the Rolling Stones. Then, in 1984, he wrote and sang a goofy little movie theme called “Ghostbusters” and became a household name forever. He’s refreshingly unbothered about being a one-hit wonder for it: “How could you hate having a winning lottery ticket?”

Honest heads-up: the house has fallen on very hard times in recent years — at one point it was a $1,000 Detroit Land Bank fixer-upper — so this is more a quiet pilgrimage than a postcard. Still: a Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated career started on this block.