Rob Cantor (6,474 views)

[Anacrusis]

Robert Howard Cantor
Years Active: 2002 - Present
Associated Acts: Tally Hall, Miracle Musical, Disney Junior
Recorded Range: G2 - E5
Voice Type: Tenor

SPOILER: Click to show

{Vocal Summary}
Rob Cantor is the yellow tie among the five necktied men of “fabloo” rock band Tally Hall. A bright tenor, he displays noticeable ease with his upper range, often using a gentle mixed voice for notes that bandmates have to belt. And as the group’s main songwriter besides Joe Hawley, he’s taken on plenty of lead parts to showcase his lower register as well.

After Tally Hall went on hiatus in 2011, Cantor branched off into various genres, including several comedy singles (one of which -- “(Actual Cannibal) Shia LaBeouf” -- went viral), a (scrapped) musical starring him in every role, a collection of children’s albums for Disney, and an eclectic solo album. Overall, Cantor possesses a theatrical voice that shifts easily through emotions, intensities, and dynamics, all while carrying a certain lovable, vulnerable charm.

Significant High Notes:

E5 ("Banana Man" various live performances, "Frère Jacques")
E♭5 ("Make a Choice", "Old Bike", "Perfect")
D5 ("Let’s Make a Bow", "Welcome to Tally Hall")
C♯5 ("At the Art Museum", "Frère Jacques")
C5 ("Cannibal", "Let’s Exercise", "Old Bike", "Perfect")
B4 ("&", "Country Good", "Good Day", "Good Food", "Let Your Mother Know", "Let’s Explore Space!", "Letters", "Old Bike")
B♭4 ("Garden of Eden", "Perfect")
A4 ("All I Need Is You", "At the Club", "Banana Man", "The Bidding", "Country Good", "Garden of Eden", "(I Know) It’s Just the Same", "Just Apathy", "Just a Friend" Boralogue XII, "Learn Some Fun Facts", "Let Your Mother Know", "Let’s Explore Space!", "Old Bike", "Overture", "Perfect", "Ruler of Everything" live LaundroMatinee, "Spring and a Storm", "Time Machine", "Who You Are")
G♯4 ("Almost Raining", "At the Club (Reprise)", "Boralogue II", "Country Good", "Feelings", "Good Day", "I’m Gonna Win", "In Memoriam", "Make a Choice", "Ruler of Everything" live LaundroMatinee, "Sacred Beast", "Smile Like You Mean It", "Variations on a Cloud")
G4 ("All I Need Is You", "Boralogue II", "Christian Bale Is at Your Party", "Flamingo", "Good Day", "I’m Gonna Win", "Just a Friend", "La Telenovela", "Ladybird, Ladybird", "Learn to Tell the Time", "Let Your Mother Know", "Letters", "Old Bike", "Overture", "Taken for a Ride", "Time Machine", "The Trap", "Variations on a Cloud", "The Vowels", "Why Bother?")
F♯4 ("All I Need Is You", "At the Club (Reprise)", "Banana Man" live Fearless Music, "The Bidding", "Boralogue XI", "Cars, Trains, Boats and Planes", "Country Good", "Cuckoo", "Flamingo", "Ghost", "Greener", "Hymn for a Scarecrow", "Let Your Mother Know", "Let’s Explore Space!", "Make a Choice", "Never Meant to Know", "Perfect", "Praise You" live Rickshaw Stop 2008, "Reacting to Zubin's Death" Tally Hall Internet Show, Episode 2, "Smile Like You Mean It", "Spring and a Storm", "Time Machine", "Turn the Lights Off" various live performances, "Two Wuv", "The Vowels", "Welcome to Tally Hall", "What’s a Pattern?")
F4 ("At the Club", "The Bidding", "Garden of Eden", "Good Day", "I’m Gonna Win", "In Memoriam", "La Telenovela", "Light & Night", "Nobody Else Quite Like You", "Out in the Twilight", "Overture", "Sacred Beast", "Sh-Sh-Sh-Shapes", "Variations on a Cloud", "Vote", "What’s a Synonym?", "Who You Are", "Why Bother?", "Yearbook")

Significant Low Notes:

E♭3 ("The Bidding", "Effort and Apathy", "Feelings", "Ghost", "I’m Gonna Win", "In Memoriam", "La Telenovela", "Misery Fell", "Passing", "Perfect", "Stationary Love")
D3 ("All I Need Is You", "At the Art Museum", "Be Born", "Christian Bale Is at Your Party", "Directions", "Fate of the Stars", "Feelings", "Flamingo", "I’m Gonna Win", "La Telenovela", "Learn About Safety", "Learn Some Fun Facts", "Learn to Tell Time", "Let’s Make a Bow", "Letters", "Lonely (But Not Alone)", "Out in the Twilight", "Perfect", "Say Hello", "Sharing", "Vote", "The Vowels", "Waiting", "What’s a Pattern?", "Who You Are", "Why Bother?")
C♯3 ("At the Art Museum", "The Bidding", "Country Good", "Make a Choice", "MTV's You Hear It First", "Stationary Love", "Time Machine", "Waiting")
C3 ("Boralogue XI", "Cars, Trains, Boats and Planes", "Feelings", "Garden of Eden", "Haiku", "I Brush My Teeth", "In Memoriam", "Just Apathy", "La Telenovela", "Learn About Safety", "Let’s Exercise", "Letters", "Light & Night", "Nobody Else Quite Like You", "Old Bike", "Sacred Beast" live The Rugby Store 2008, "Taken for a Ride", "Time Machine", "Vote", "What’s a Synonym?", "You Have a New Sibling")
B2 ("Frère Jacques", "Good Food", "Greener", "Haiku", "I’m Sorry", "Let’s Explore Space!", "Letters", "Never Meant to Know", "Perfect", "The Rendezvous", "Two Wuv" Tally Hall Internet Show, Episode 2, "Variations on a Cloud", "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" live MMC, June 26th, 2005)
B♭2 ("Find Your Courage!", "In Memoriam", "Let’s Exercise", "Light & Night")
A2 ("At the Art Museum", "Ladybird, Ladybird", "Let’s Dance", "Let’s Explore Space!", "Let’s Make a Bow", "Lonely (But Not Alone)", "Sharing", "The Vowels", "What’s a Pattern?", "Who You Are")
G2 ("Find Your Courage!", "Shia LaBeouf", "The Vowels", "Who You Are", "You Have a New Sibling")

SPOILER: Click to show

{Questionable Notes}
G5 (“Perfect” [2] This sounds like a Mellotron.)
E♭5 ("Two Wuv" [2] They never replicate this part live, so it’s hard to tell who does the high falsetto in the bridge.)
B4 ("Fate of the Stars" [2] Top harmony note in the chorus. Could be Joe, Rob, or Zubin. Very hard to tell.)
A4 (“Flamingo” [2] The “la la la”s at the end, “La Telenovela” [2])
G4 ("Misery Fell" [2] Top harmony note during the final chorus., "The Whole World and You" [2] Top harmony note during the bridge.)

A2 (“Be Born” [1], “La Telenovela” [1], “Sacred Beast” [4])
E2 ("Shia LaBeouf" [3])
E♭2 ("Perfect" [4] This might be a keyboard.)

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1. Brief jumps into high or low range (eg. Yelps, trills, anacrusis, etc.).
2. Notes whose singer is unclear.
3. Non-melodic (ie. Spoken or off-key) notes that also lack a clear pitch.
4. Possibly pitch-shifted notes.
5. Notes that do not fit the labels above but whose quality is still unrepresentative of the singer's usual work (eg. excessively distorted screams or sustained, but non-projected vocal fry).

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• Blue: Falsetto, head voice, and/or whistle register (projected mixed voice is kept in black).
• Bold: Some of the singer's arguably most impressive notes within a given register. Click on a bolded song title to hear audio of that note.
• Italics: Non-melodic notes (ie. Spoken or off-key).
• Underlines: Notes that are buried in the song's mix or which blend together with the other voice(s) in a harmony.

[Macca]

that Bolded Eb5 sounds mixed

[Anacrusis]

Feb 5, 2022 14:03:16 GMT Macca said:

that Bolded Eb5 sounds mixed

Yeah, I agree. Good catch, chimmy. I've made it black. I think I just did that to distinguish it from the other bold note from that song, which is a chesty belt.

[Gilad]

Sounds to me like there's an Eb2 as one of the layers at the end of Perfect

Edit: Saw you have it in the spoiler. I see no reason not to count it personally.

[Anacrusis]

Feb 6, 2022 6:24:19 GMT Gilad said:

Sounds to me like there's an Eb2 as one of the layers at the end of Perfect

Edit: Saw you have it in the spoiler. I see no reason not to count it personally.

I agree! I was just keeping it in the spoiler because it's such a strong note for something so far below his next-lowest notes. But if you think it's countable, I agree. And with that...Rob is now part of the 3-octave club!

Likewise, I have a note that might help bring our buddy Rivers Cuomo into the same club...

Edit: To keep things organized, I've moved my comment about Rivers' note over to his thread.

[Macca]

is there going to be way to make joe Hawley get into the 4 octave club?

[rob]

Feb 6, 2022 22:26:26 GMT Macca said:

is there going to be way to make joe Hawley get into the 4 octave club?

Sure, let me just call him up and ask him to release a song where he sings a countable C6. That should clear things up.

[SailorBlue]

Depending on your ethos when it comes to notes like this, this can go 2 ways. He hits G2s on the spoken line pretty consistently throughout the song and a really shit E2 at the end. So basically, you either count the G2s as italics and spoiler the E2 under [3], or spoiler the G2s under [5] and the E2 same as the previous. Or, you could be funky fresh and ignore the notes entirely! I'm incapable of forcing you to do anything.

[Anacrusis]

Feb 7, 2022 3:05:38 GMT SailorBlue said:

Depending on your ethos when it comes to notes like this, this can go 2 ways. He hits G2s on the spoken line pretty consistently throughout the song and a really shit E2 at the end. So basically, you either count the G2s as italics and spoiler the E2 under [3], or spoiler the G2s under [5] and the E2 same as the previous. Or, you could be funky fresh and ignore the notes entirely! I'm incapable of forcing you to do anything.

I'm so glad you shared this with me! This was actually one of the first things I tried notewatching for Rob, but at the time, I decided against the spoken-word notes. However, now that we know more about Rob's history with that range, I think the G2's represent him quite well. And the E2, while not as countable (as you point out), can still enter the spoiler. I'll add these now. Thanks!

Edit: spelling/grammar

[Macca]

I Think That Bold F4 Actually Begins as an F#4

[sylvia!!]

yo ! just a couple of things

personally, i'm not too sure about the E♭2 as it sounds either like a keyboard (the fact it fades in and out as well) or a really pitch shifted note - either way doesn't sound very natural to me
and i really dont think the F♯4 is really bold worthy as he just kinda sustains the e4 (this pains me to say as i really like this note)

[Anacrusis]

Oct 30, 2022 22:54:15 GMT sylvia!! said:

yo ! just a couple of things

personally, i'm not too sure about the E♭2 as it sounds either like a keyboard (the fact it fades in and out as well) or a really pitch shifted note - either way doesn't sound very natural to me
and i really dont think the F♯4 is really bold worthy as he just kinda sustains the e4 (this pains me to say as i really like this note)

Thanks for the feedback! I agree with both those points.

There's been debate about the E♭2. But now that you suggest it was a keyboard, I think that's the most likely explanation. Otherwise, it's a very sudden, one-time improvement in his technique, as it's a whole third below his next lowest notes and a whole lot stronger as well.

And I agree about un-bolding the F♯4. I love it, too, for obvious reasons. But the bold was really just a meme.

[Macca]

Been a little while since i posted on one of your threads but I'm gonna post these here.

B2's in this performance of Why Don't We Do It In The Road

D3

C♯3

A4's in this performance of Just a Friend

B2 and a very quiet A2 while singing Two Wuv in this Tally Hall Internet Show episode.

[Anacrusis]

I'll refrain from adding the A2, as it is pretty soft/fried. But great finds! That D3 is boldworthy imo.

[brookesquatchy]

i dont mean to alarm u but rob, joe and zubin all did vocals for a series of like song bumper things for disney junior called happy monster band. this one has A2s for all 3 of them and i think an E4 for Zubin? (not that u couldnt tell from how they sound but zubin is the yellow one, joe is the blue one and rob is the red one)