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.

Ralph Sall
Born (1963-08-23) August 23, 1963 (age 61)
Occupation(s)Record producer, music supervisor, composer, songwriter
LabelsBulletproof
Websitewww.ralphsall.com

Personal life

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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.[1]

Career

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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.[2]

Other ventures

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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

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Music supervisor

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Year Title Notes
1990 Downtown
Tremors
1992 Encino Man
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1993 Addams Family Values
1994 Threesome
PCU
Speed
1995 Billy Madison
1996 Bio-Dome
The Craft
1997 Switchback
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1998 The Replacement Killers
Can't Hardly Wait
1999 10 Things I Hate About You
Dick
Three Kings
2000 Grosse Pointe TV series
2001 Happy Campers
2002 Paranormal Girl TV movie
Clockstoppers
The New Guy Also composer
Scooby-Doo
2003 The In-Laws
Grind Also composer
2004 Mean Girls
Garfield
2005 Sahara
Mad Hot Ballroom
King's Ransom
Herbie: Fully Loaded
Bad News Bears
The Protector
Weeds TV series
Head Cases
Kitchen Confidential
First Descent
2006 Last Holiday
Failure to Launch
Slither
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
Clerks II
Barnyard
How to Eat Fried Worms
Jackass Number Two
Let's Go to Prison
Charlotte's Web
2007 Because I Said So
Sex and Death 101
Nancy Drew Also composer
The Hills Have Eyes II
Arctic Tale
License to Wed
Shoot 'Em Up
2008 Hamlet 2 Also composer and songwriter
2009 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Degrassi: The Next Generation TV series; season 9
2019 Wonder Park

Discography

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Compilations

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References

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  1. ^ "About Ralph Sall". Bulletproofrecords.com. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
  2. ^ "Addams Family Values Awards". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
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