Musical Director at WARNER BROS ANIMATION, HANNA BARBERA, MARVEL ANIMATION,
STAN LEE FILMS, SCREENMEDIA ENT, GUNTHER WAHL ANIMATION, LOMMEL FILMS,
HOLLYWOOD HOUSE OF HORRORS
Robert J. Walsh has created and produced award-winning music for film, television, and the record industry for over 20 years.
He has produced over 250 albums on various labels, garnered three Emmy nominations, scored over 50 animated and live action domestic and Network television series - and his music has been featured in literally thousands of movies and TV series around the world.
This includes feature scores for companies like Lionsgate Entertainment, Warner Bros, Orion Pictures, Hemisphere Ent., Marvel Ent., Hanna Barberra, Hemisphere Ent., Live Entertainment, Stu Segal Productions, Paramount Television, Stan Lee Films, and many other companies.
He has been the personal composer for Friz Freleng, Jim Henson, Stan Lee, Glen Larson, Lee Gunther, and many top film and tv producers.
In the mid-seventies, Rob had a group called Happy Day in Chicago – they had several top twenty records in the Midwest. He then moved on as the guitarist in the Jesus Christ Superstar New York road tour for 3 years. His manager Hal Zeiger brought him to Los Angeles to work on his first album release after the tour closed. Having arrived in Los Angeles he formed strong alliances with some of the top up-and-coming artists in town, and his studio and reputation as a musician-engineer -writer-producer flourished.
He became musical director/composer at Warner Bros. Animation in the early 1980's for Friz Freleng, then went to Hanna-Barberra with Friz for one series - and then went on to score virtually all of the shows at Marvel Animation in their heyday, including Spiderman, GI Joe, Transformers, My Little Pony, X-Men, Dungeons & Dragons, and dozens of TV series.
During his tenure as Musical Director at Marvel, he worked closely with Jim Henson in creating the music for children's shows like Muppet Babies and Fraggle Rock.
Rob was the founder and creator of one of the The Hollywood Film Music Library record label, which was sold to the world's largest music library conglomerate, FirstCom Music in Dallas, Texas in 1994 - and is currently owned by Universal. It has since become one of the most-used and most successful music libraries in the world.
Rob still writes, produces and deliver several albums per year for The Hollywood Film Music Library, as well as other music library companies and record labels.
In 1987, Rob also designed, and built what was to become the top animation post production facility in Los Angeles: ScreenMusic Studios, located in Studio City, Ca. Many animation shows have posted there, including Little Mermaids, Ninja Turtles, Ren & Stimpy, the Rugrats, etc. He sold that business to the world's largest pharmaceutical company (Senju, a Japanese conglomerate) in 1990. Today it is owned by Frank Zappa’s family.
These days, Rob has his own state of the art digital scoring/mixing studio located in Encino, California. He has worked with many of the top stars in the record business, creating new tracks and albums, is extremely comfortable with live orchestral scores as well as contemporary sampled music techniques.
From this pastoral, relaxed, and creative location overlooking a guitar-shaped swimming pool, he continues to score shows and produce soundtracks for many of the industry's top producers. Directors find this relaxed, cutting-edge studio a wonderful facility within which to work, previewing new soundtrack cues to picture and fine-tuning Rob’s tracks to achieve ultimate results in film and tv scoring.
The facility encompasses a Protools HD-3 station, a digital automated console, a 9-foot 1080p HD Digital Projection room with 5.1 surround sound - and has accomodated ADR, sound fx editing, sweetening and mixing for many top film directors and producers.
His more recent works have been several new animated net series, produced by Rob’s long-time friend Stan Lee, the creator of Spiderman, X-Men, Silver Surfer, etc - and several features over the last year or two for Lionsgate Films. He has recently completed new original scores for the Harry Potter DVD game, as well as Transformers, Scooby-Doo, and the Berenstain Bears.
Shut Up!
Robert J. Walsh Lyrics
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They was gonna have a party and they called me to say
Hey Joe, how ya doin', how's your album, how's your tour
How's Don Henley, how's Glenn Frey,
And who, what where and when and why
They could not shut up (can't shut up)
They couldn't shut up (can't shut up)
So I hung up (can't shut up)
Well I followed their directions and arrived a little late
I had a couple Chardonnays and started feelin' great
I said I hate to interrupt, I'll be right back I gotta pee
30 people in the bathroom started talkin' to me
They could not shut up (can't shut up)
(can't shut up)
I said hey, shut up (can't shut up)
They could not shut up
Well, just to get out of the bathroom took the rest of the year,
And then a polyester pantsuit named Mandingo grabbed my ear
Said I heard you're rich and famous but I don't know who you are
You gotta sign this for my nephew or he won't believe I met you
She just could not shut up (can't shut up)
No, no she could not shut up (can't shut up)
She couldn't shut up (can't shut up)
I said: "Shut up" (can't shut up)
She could not shut up (can't shut up)
She, she, she, she could not shut up (can't shut up)
No, no, no she could not shut up (can't shut up)
She said: "blah, blah, blah" (can't shut up)
I said: "hahahaha, Shut up"
Shut up (can't shut up)
The lyrics to Robert J. Walsh's song Shut up! are an amusing take on the frustration of dealing with people who just can't seem to stop talking. The song starts off with the singer receiving a call from friends he's never even met, who proceed to bombard him with questions about his life and career. Despite his attempts to end the conversation, they simply cannot shut up. The second verse finds the singer at a party, where he's trying to use the bathroom in peace, but is interrupted by a group of people who start talking to him. Once again, they can't seem to stop talking, even after he asks them to.
The final verse introduces us to a woman named Mandingo who accosts the singer and demands an autograph for her nephew. She too, cannot seem to shut up, and the singer eventually resorts to telling her to "Shut up!" in exasperation. The song ultimately emphasizes the difficulties of dealing with people who talk too much and the frustration of trying to break away from them.
Overall, the lyrics to the song Shut up! are a humorous, relatable take on a common experience. It's a lighthearted look at the difficulty of dealing with people who just can't seem to stop talking, and the ways in which we try (and often fail) to get away from them.
Line by Line Meaning
Some friends of mine I never met called me the other day
I received a call from some people who claim to be my friends, but I've never actually met them in person
They was gonna have a party and they called me to say Hey Joe, how ya doin', how's your album, how's your tour How's Don Henley, how's Glenn Frey, And who, what where and when and why
They invited me to their party and immediately bombarded me with questions about my life, my music, and even other famous people
They could not shut up (can't shut up) They couldn't shut up (can't shut up) So I hung up (can't shut up)
They kept talking non-stop and wouldn't give me a chance to respond or speak. I ultimately had to end the call to escape their incessant chatter.
Well I followed their directions and arrived a little late I had a couple Chardonnays and started feelin' great I said I hate to interrupt, I'll be right back I gotta pee 30 people in the bathroom started talkin' to me
Despite arriving to the party a little late, I had some drinks and felt good. However, while using the bathroom, I was once again bombarded with people talking to me and not allowing me any private or quiet time.
I said hey, shut up (can't shut up) They could not shut up
I tried to get them to stop talking and give me some space, but they were unable to do so.
Well, just to get out of the bathroom took the rest of the year, And then a polyester pantsuit named Mandingo grabbed my ear Said I heard you're rich and famous but I don't know who you are You gotta sign this for my nephew or he won't believe I met you
It took me forever to escape the bathroom because so many people kept talking to me. Eventually, a woman approached me and asked for an autograph for her nephew, even though she had no idea who I was.
She just could not shut up (can't shut up) No, no she could not shut up (can't shut up) She couldn't shut up (can't shut up) I said: "Shut up" (can't shut up) She could not shut up (can't shut up) She, she, she, she could not shut up (can't shut up) No, no, no she could not shut up (can't shut up) She said: "blah, blah, blah" (can't shut up) I said: "hahahaha, Shut up"
The woman refused to stop talking and continued to prattle on, annoying me. I eventually had to resort to telling her to be quiet, even laughing at how ridiculous the situation was, but she still couldn't stop talking.
Shut up (can't shut up)
The phrase "Shut up" is repeated multiple times throughout the song, emphasizing the frustration and annoyance felt by the artist in dealing with these non-stop talkers.
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: ROSS KNIGHT, WILLIAM WALSH, ROBERT WATTS
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