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Shirley Walker (April 10, 1945 - November 30, 2006) was an American television and film composer and conductor. She was one of the few female film score composers working in Hollywood. Walker was the first female composer to earn a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture and according to the Los Angeles Times, will be remembered as a pioneer for women in the film industry.
She wrote her film scores entirely by hand. She always orchestrated and conducted her own scores by herself.
Walker was born in Napa, California on April 10, 1945. Walker was a piano soloist with the San Francisco Symphony during high school, and later attended San Francisco State University on a piano scholarship. She studied music composition under Roger Nixon and piano studies with Harald Logan of Berkeley, California. For several years, she wrote jingles and composed for industrial films.
Walker's career in film began in 1979, when she was hired to play the synthesizers on Carmine Coppola's score for Apocalypse Now. In 1992, Walker became the first female composer to earn a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture - for John Carpenter's Memoirs of an Invisible Man (one of Carpenter's few movies he did not score himself - Walker later collaborated with Carpenter on Escape From L.A.). Shirley Walker served as composer for numerous productions, including films such as Willard, the Final Destination trilogy of movies, and television series such as Falcon Crest, Space: Above and Beyond, China Beach, and The Flash.The Flash was one of many collaborations Walker did with composer Danny Elfman. She was his conductor on projects such as Scrooged and Batman.
Actors: Paul Newbery (actor), Victoria Delaney (actress), Tim Rutherford (actor), Chris Kerry (actress), David Jones (director), Lladel Bryant (actor), Adam Sean Butcher (actor), Tyron Maynard (actor), Gemma Flannery (actress), David Jones (writer), Jade Chambers (actress), Helen Cooke (actor), Anastasia Ampatzoglou (actor), Keith Bailey (actor), Edit Petersen (actress),
Plot: This is an episode from a continue series created by David Jones. The series follows Maria Estefan and her relationship with the dysfunctional Saunders family as they stumble dramatically through life and struggle to cope with the remote influence of Maria`s husband Ronaldo and Lauren Baker`s sinister plans to get her hands on Maria`s money. In this episode Maria Estefan is forced by her violent gangster husband Ronaldo to return to the UK to transfer her 4million pounds inheritance so he can get hold of the cash it marks the start of a roller coaster ride of deceit, intrigue and confrontations as Maria`s reappearance involves the Saunders and triggers unplanned events that leads to an inevitable clash with her arch rival Lauren Baker.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Short,I'm so glad you're awake
That you're not like the others
Cause they're so straight laced
And no fun
Gosh that's nice
That lingerie
Makes me feel like
Oh I don't know
You're a very pretty thing
you remind me of someone
You must have heard
Some awful nasty things about me but
What I can do for you
There's no one else
On God's green earth can do
What I can do for you
There's no one else
On God's green earth can do
Just ask anybody
They'll tell you that it's true
There's no one else on earth
Can do the things that I can do for you
You're never gonna make it
All by yourself
You're gonna need a friend
You're gonna need my help
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If you just be nice
If you do what I say
And don't make me say it twice
Do you mind if I just
Rub my hand up thus
Come on just my hand
Come on just my hand
You got to understand
I'm gonna be your man
I'm gonna be your man
You're gonna need me