When I told them Gary had passed, they said, “Can someone else sing it but use the name?” I spoke with Gary’s widow, and she agreed to it. Q: That track was billed as Buckner & Garcia, but sadly Gary died in 2011.Ī: It was really important to Disney that we have that name. That opened the door to a bunch of new stuff. Q: How did a new Buckner & Garcia song end up in the 2012 Disney film “Wreck It Ralph”?Ī: We got a call that Disney wanted us to do a song for the movie. A few years ago I got back into writing, and the retro thing started happening. Q: What did you guys do after the video game craze faded?Ī: We continued to write songs. On the original album it took 26 contracts to get the rights to use everything. Q: Where did you get the game samples from?Ī: A sound engineer had to go into an arcade and get them off the machines. They wanted us to do it as quickly as possible. It was a grueling two weeks of recording. The next day, with only a couple hours of sleep, we would go in and record the song. We watched them, went home and worked on the song overnight. Q: How did you pick which games to write songs about?Ī: We went out at night to the arcades and looked at the games, found the games that looked popular and someone who knew how to play them. We want all game songs.” We were against that, but how do you tell CBS no? Q: Whose idea was an entire album of video game songs?Ī: CBS said, “Look, we need to do an album to support this single.” We began to work on some regular pop songs. Within a week CBS said, “We want this record!” Then a local radio station played it, and it just exploded. He believed in it and pressed up some records. Q: Is it true that at first no record companies would give you guys a deal?Ī: Our manager took it to 22 companies. Especially on “Pac-Man Fever.” The opening line, “I got a pocket full of quarters and I’m heading to the arcade.” That summed up the whole time. Q: Gary Garcia wrote the lyrics and you wrote the music?Ī: Mostly he was the lyrics and I was on music. We thought, “Instead of feeding this thing quarters every night and losing money, maybe we could do a song?” We thought if we could get a little bit of local radio play it would maybe help our jingle business. Eventually got hooked like everybody else. We saw the Pac-Man machine for the first time. A: We were working on jingles and stepped out to grab dinner at a restaurant.
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