Tom is a producer, composer and arranger who has done award-winning work
for film, advertising and records.
His film work can be heard in Beer, Night of the Creeps, Excessive Force,
Caught in the Crossfire, Girlfriends, The Key, and the Martha Coolidge
film Not a Pretty Picture. The Key, which he scored with Jonathan
Helfand, won the 1996 National Education Fiction Video Award.
Tom has written and produced countless TV and Radio commercials. He has produced
such artists as Michael Bolton, Marc Cohn, Ry Cooder, Fats Domino, Dave Edmunds,
Allen Toussaint, Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Rogers and George Benson for a blue-chip
list of clients that includes the Miller Brewing Company, Hyundai N.A., Mars,
Helene Curtis and Campbell's. Among his commercial compositions is the song
for Miller Genuine Draft's first campaign, It's as Real as It Gets,
for which he won both Clio and NYMRAD awards for Best Musical Campaign. Tom
produced Hyundai's debut campaign, Cars That Make Sense, for which
he received a Cannes Silver Lion. He also produced The Art of Noise for Xerox's
Revolution campaign, garnering another Clio. Some of his other jingles
are Welcome to Millertime, Finesse's Sometimes You Need A Little,
Grab on to That M&M's Feeling and Starburst's Turn Your Tastebuds
Loose.
Currently, Tom is working with 600 LBS, a production company based in Smithtown,
New York. It's About Time, an album by Martha Trachtenberg that he
produced and arranged, has been featured in The New York Times, reviewed
in the Long Island Voice, and the lucy-list, and is being played
on WUSB, WPKN, WPRB and other acoustic music oriented radio stations throughout
the Northeast. His album, The Better Half, was picked by the LI Voice
as one of the Top Ten albums of 1997. His song, "Wrestling with the Light,"
is featured on the Voice's compilation CD, Those Damn Folkies, as
well as Lawnguyland, the official album of the 1998 LI Music Awards,
and his "Livin' in a Combat Zone" was on the LI Voice's 1999 Valentine's
compilation CD, Jilted.
Tom divides his time between New York City and East Northport, LI, where
he lives with his wife and son.
These sound clips are from Tom's CD Hodge Podge,
released in 2000. Sound clips are ©2000 Mom and Pop Records.
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Tom's Favorite Links:
| Visit Scott MacDonald's site. He's the man who keeps my guitars sounding good. http://www.CustomGuitars.com | |
| Jonathan Helfand, a great musician (and the designer of this website), also has a terrific post production mixing facility. A multi-talented guy! Check him out at http://jhmp.com | |
| The Folk Music Society of Huntington, the place I've called my musical home for the last few years. A hotbed of songwriting talent. They're at http://exxtra.com/fmsh/ |