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Thomas F. "Tommy" Valando (March 1, 1916 – February 14, 1995) was a Broadway producer and owner of a New York City music publishing company, Tommy Valando Publishing Group, Inc.
Valando played a role in the emergence of BMI songwriters on the Broadway scene. In the early 1950s, he was responsible for composer Jerry Bock getting onto Broadway with the score for Catch a Star. In 1964, he introduced John Kander and Fred Ebb who became a prominent songwriting team.
Valando's company published the scores to such Broadway shows as:
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