Santorelli Historical Media, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization operating under the authority of the Internal Revenue Service under section 501 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The organization was formed by Thomas Santorelli who has enjoyed a wide variety of work in the media as an award winning filmmaker, musician, composer, historian of early American cinema, writer, radio producer, and recording engineer and technician.

He studied classical guitar under the scholarship of Russian born composer Alexander Bellow and composition and orchestration under film composer and conductor, Freddy Edmonds Jr. a.k.a. Marc Fredericks. (See The Life of Marc Fredericks under MP3) Santorelli has composed music for solo classical guitar and for guitar and orchestra. He has written music for numerous radio and television commercials and wrote the theme music for Author! Author! a program produced by SHMI from 2003-2006 and was heard each weekend on numerous NPR affiliates. He is also a free lance radio producer for the NPR affiliate, WSHU.

Santorelli got his start in radio at WBAB FM, a rock and roll station located in West Baylon, New York in the late 1970's working as Associate Producer for The Joel Martin Show that aired Monday-Thrusday from midnight to 2:00am, and on Sundays 10:pm to 12:am. Joel Martin was one of the most powerful broadcasters on Long Island throughout the 1970's and 1980's. The Joel Show earned high ratings despite being aired in an odd time slot on a station whose format was AOR (Album Oriented Radio).The Joel Marin Show became a pioneer radio program for obtaining higher ratings than any other music shift at a time when talk shows were limited to talk oriented radio.

You may have heard one of Santorelli's commercial jingles for Unified Windows on the YES Network while watching a Yankee game, or on News12, or on many other Cablevision channels.  You may have heard it on WHLI or KJOY radio, or at Citifield Park in Central Islip when a foul ball hits the plexi barrier.  Log onto www.unifiedwindows.com and click on Advertisements so see and hear where this jingle has aired.  Also listen to the Unified jingle on this site under MP3 Button. 

As a historian of early American cinema, Santorelli has studied the silent era with an emphasis on the Vitagraph studios and has written many articles on the subject. His expertise in the recording studio has earned him work as an audio archivist, preserving numerous audio interviews with Vitagraph stars and directors conducted in the early 1970's before their passing by internationally known English film historian and author, Anthony Slide. These digitally preserved interviews are located at the archives of the University of Southern California, Motion Picture and Television Library.

Tom has also preserved numerous interviews with silent film stars Jetta Goudal, Lois Wilson, Carmel Myers, William Bakewell, Esther Walston, and Priscilla Bonnet from the series, The Silent Stars Speak, held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. A portion of these archived interviews was used as research materials in Emily W. Leider's book, Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  Thomas Santorelli was also an historical source and cited in the book, Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War by David Traxel and published by Knopf.

Santorelli Historical Media, Inc. has acquired well over 5,000 photos starting from the silent era, archival film footage, and magazines.

As recording engineer and studio technician, Tom has worked for some of the biggest musicians and artists in the music industry.  In the genres of rock, jazz, and classical music Tom has worked with Harry Nilsson, Richie Cannata, Doug Stegmeyer (Billy Joel), Aldo Nova, Rebbie Jackson, David Lebolt (David Bowie, Billy Joel), The Scorpions, Isley Brothers, Claudio Arrau, Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge, Johnny Farina (Santo and Johnny), Blue Oyster Cult, The Cars, Cameo, Flo and Eddie, Ornette Coleman, Joe Franco (Good Rats, Twisted Sister, Widowmaker), Lou Reed, Debbie Gibson, Taylor Dayne, Joe Cocker, Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Phil Ramone, Sting, and most recently Michael Feinstein.

Thomas Santorelli worked as Head Studio Technician on Aldo Nova’s Twitch album in 1985.  In those days with the beginning of MIDI and microprocessor technology incorporated into music instruments and outboard FXs, a technician was needed on site to solve sudden technical glitches, noises, etc.  Some of the artists that worked on this project for CBS/Portrait was Michael Bolton, Singers Fiona Flanagan, and Angela Clemmon, David Lebolt (Billy Joel, David Bowie), Peppy Castro (The Blues Magoos, Barnaby Bye), and Anton Fig (drummer with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra on Late Show with David Letterman) 

Santorelli worked on this album for Rebbie Jackson as recording engineer. It was released in 1988 for CBS Records.  Rebbie Jackson is the eldest sister to La Toya and Janet.  Her younger brother was the legendary late Michael Jackson.  Santorelli got to work on this album from his work with Everett Collins, drummer and keyboard player for the Isley Brothers.  Many great musicians played on this album including jazz guitarist, Stanley Jordan.

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