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| Ralph Sall | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1963-08-23) August 23, 1963 (age 61) |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, music supervisor, composer, songwriter |
| Labels | Bulletproof |
| Website | www |
Ralph Sall is an American record producer, music supervisor, composer, songwriter and screenwriter. He is the president of Bulletproof Entertainment, a company involved in several facets of the entertainment industry, including film, television, comic books and graphic novels, music, internet and live theatre.
Personal life
Sall is a Summa Cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University. A native of Miami, he currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Lisa and their three young children.
Career
As a record producer, Sall has produced tracks with Paul McCartney, The Ramones, Stone Temple Pilots, Jewel, Sugar Ray, Sublime, Smash Mouth, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, Jane’s Addiction and Creed. As a songwriter, Sall has written tracks for Liz Phair, Jewel, George Clinton and Sugar Ray.
Tracks by his group, All Too Much, have been featured in the romantic comedies The In-Laws (2003), Failure to Launch (2006) and License to Wed (2007).
Sall has written and produced original songs for films, including "Rollin’ with My Homies", co-written with Coolio, for Clueless (1995) and "Words to Me", with Sugar Ray, for Scooby-Doo (2002).
As composer and executive music producer on Andrew Fleming’s Hamlet 2 (2008), Sall wrote the majority of the music and performed the songs "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" and "You’re as Gay as the Day Is Long" under The Ralph Sall Experience. He previously collaborated with Fleming on the films Threesome (1994), The Craft (1996), Dick (1999) and Nancy Drew (2007). He scored The New Guy (2002) and Grind (2003), the latter of which he also wrote the screenplay.
Sall won the 1994 Razzie Award (Worst Original Song) for the song "Addams Family (Whoomp!)" from Addams Family Values. He shared the award with co-writers Stephen Gibson and Cecil Glenn.
Other ventures
Sall’s Interstellar Force, a dance music project, charted a Billboard hit with their cover of the Star Wars theme.
Sall produced the tribute album Deadicated, featuring the songs of the Grateful Dead. He went on to create the triple-platinum selling Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles, Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors and the Gold-certified Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, as well as the Paul McCartney tribute The Art of McCartney, released in November 2014.
Filmography
Music supervisor
Discography
Compilations
- Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles (1994)
- Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits (1995)
- Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors (2000)
- Southern Rock Country Style (2004)
- Hey, That's Funny!: Comedy's Greatest Hits (2004)
- The Art of McCartney (2014)
References
- "About Ralph Sall". Bulletproofrecords.com. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
- "Addams Family Values Awards". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
External links
- Ralph Sall at IMDb
- 1963 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American composers
- American entertainment industry businesspeople
- American film score composers
- American male screenwriters
- American male film score composers
- Musicians from Miami
- Record producers from Florida
- Songwriters from Florida
- Yale University alumni
- Screenwriters from Florida
- 21st-century American male musicians
- American male songwriters