Anyone who knows the ‘80s surely knows Rick Moranis. The Canadian actor retired from the movie scene in 1997, leaving people wondering what has happened to the extremely likeable glass-wearing comedian who starred in their favourite movies in the past.

Parental responsibility and his love for his children made him decide to leave the limelight and assume his role as a single father full-time. Six years after his wife Ann succumbed to cancer in 1991, Moranis officially left the industry to raise his kids.

“I’m a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the travelling involved in making movies,” he had told USA Today in an interview in 2005. “So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn’t miss it.

It didn’t seem that he would return to making movies, but he came back briefly to deliver his brand of comedy, albeit in a different form.

“In the last few years I’ve been offered a number of parts in movies, and I’ve just turned them down. I don’t know whether I’ll go back to it or not. I’ve been doing a lot of writing and a lot of parenting, and now I’m doing this,” referring to his first album “The Agoraphobic Cowboy,” a collection of country songs that he released more than seven years ago.

The album, which he wrote, was nominated for Best Comedy Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards.

And now the “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” star has returned with another album.

Fans are expecting “My Mother’s Brisket & Other Love Songs” to be just like his first album. Songs that are easy to listen to with the same amount of silliness that people love to hear from him.

Aside from the album’s pre-order date of May 21, little is known about “My Mother’s Brisket & Other Love Songs.” His Web site doesn’t give any information as well.

Moranis famously played the lead star in the “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” film series as Wayne Szalinski. He starred in “Little Shop of Horrors” and in “Ghostbusters” and “Ghostbusters II.”

Listen to his “I Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” track from “The Agoraphobic Cowboy” album below: