Tommy West has been a successful creative force in the music industry for almost thirty years.  His career as an artist began when his high school doo-wop vocal group, "The Criterions", made it on to the top of the pop charts.  In the sixties he was a most sought session singer and sang backup up vocals on albums by Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Sammy Davis, Jr., Connie Francis, and Mitch Ryder.  He was also a featured vocalist on radio and television commercials.  In the seventies, as part of the singer/songwriter duo Cashman & West, he released seven albums on the Capitol and ABC/Dunhill labels, enjoying a number of pop chart hits including the now classic, "American City Suite."

Tommy West's production credits include an almost 1000 batting average in discovering, developing, producing, and making record deals for singer/songwriters in New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville. This experience spans over into founding and running two important acoustically focused singer/songwriter record labels, "Lifesong" - based in New York City in the seventies, and "MTM" (Mary Tyler Moore) - based in Nashville in the eighties.

Artists Tommy West has found, guided, and recorded have not always become stars, but with one or two exceptions, he has given every one of his "discoveries" hit recordings right out of the box.  Among these artists are Jim Croce, Henry Gross, Crack The Sky, Dean Friedman, Ed Bruce, Gail Davies, Holly Dunn, Judy Rodman, and Girls Next Door.  He also orchestrated "comeback" efforts of such stars as Rock n' Roll hall of famer Dion an folk legend Mary Travers.

In 1992 he launched "High Harmony Records" and it's initial release, "Through The Raindrops", by harmonica virtuoso Robert Bonfiglio remained on the "Billboard" New Age Charts for nine months.  The album also made the top twenty year end New Age Chart in "Billboard" and also launched Bonfiglio's continuing success story on the "QVC Network."  He appears on "QVC" several times a year and regularly sells out.

In 1993 Tommy West teamed up with pop/country superstar Anne Murray and produced "Croonin'," a collection of  classic pre-rock pop songs of the fifties.  The album is now approaching triple platinum status in Canada and is considered by Anne to be her finest album as a vocalist.  "Croonin' " also received a coveted "Canadian Juno" award in 1993 as the best engineered pop recording.

Presently, West is completing a three year project.  A state of the art recording environment called "Somewhere In New Jersey."  Among the studio's successful credits is a collection of popular standards recorded for "Time/Life Music," which again features Robert Bonfiglio on harmonica, accompanied by a string quartet, acoustic rhythm and synthesizer.  The studio is housed in a 5,000 square foot, 150 year old barn on West's property.  It has been designed especially for live acoustic music.  

1970 - 1975

"You Don't Mess Around With Jim" - Jim Croce
"Life And Times" - Jim Croce
"I Got A Name" - Jim Croce

All three albums went to "# 1" on the charts and are multiplatinum records.

"#1" and "Top 10" singles from these albums include:

"You Don't Mess Around With Jim," "Operator," "Time In A Bottle,"
"I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song," "I Got A Name," and
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" which received a 1973 Grammy Nomination. 

"A Song Or Two" - Cashman & West
"Moondog Serenade" - Cashman & West
"Lifesong" - Cashman & West

All three albums had pop and country chart singles including "American City Suite." 

"Elephants In The Rain" - Jim Dawson
"Jim Dawson" - Jim Dawson
"Circle" - Mary Travers
"Henry Gross" - Henry Gross
"Plug Me Into Something" - Henry Gross 

1976 - 1980

"Release" - Henry Gross (Included "Top 5" single "Shannon")
"Love Is The Stuff" - Henry Gross
"Return Of The Wanderer" - Dion
"Deep, Down And Real" - Nina Kahle
"Gail Davies" - Gail Davies (Included three "Top Ten" country singles)
"The Voltage Brothers" - The Voltage Brothers
"Throw down" - The Voltage Brothers
"Dean Friedman" - Dean Friedman (Executive Producer)
"Well Well Said The Rocking Chair" - Dean Friedman (Executive Producer)
"Crack The Sky" - Crack The Sky (Executive Producer)
"Animal Notes" - Crack The Sky (Executive Producer) 

1980 - 1985

"Ed Bruce" - Ed Bruce
"One To One" - Ed Bruce
"I Write It Down" - Ed Bruce
"Your Not Leavin' Here Tonight" - Ed Bruce
"Tell 'Em I've Gone Crazy" - Ed Bruce

All albums had at least two "Top 10" country singles and "Your The Best Break" was "#1" 

"For The Sake Of The Song" - The Corbin/Hanner Band
"Son Of America" - The Corbin/Hanner Band 

1985 - 1988

"Judy Rodman" - Judy Rodman
"A Place Called Love" - Judy Rodman

"Until I met you" was a "#1" single, six others were "Top 10."
Judy was the ACM Vocalist of the Year in 1986. 

"Holly Dunn" - Holly Dunn
"Cornerstone" - Holly Dunn

"Love Someone Like Me" was a "#1" single; "Daddy's Hands" was a
Grammy Award Nominee in 1987; Five others were "Top 10."  Holly was
ACM Vocalist of the Year"in 1987 and CMA Horizon Award Winner in 1987. 

"Girls Next Door" - Girls Next Door
"What A Girl Next Door Could Do" - Girls Next Door
"Almost Brothers" - Almost Brothers
"The Volt-Age" - Voltage Brothers
"The Metros" - The Metros 

Executive Producer of Albums by Hege V; Schuyler, Knoblock & Bickhart;
Paul Overstreet; Becky Hobbs; In Pursuit 

1992

"Through The Raindrops" - Robert Bonfiglio 

1993

"Croonin" - Anne Murray 

1994

"Kindered Spirits" - Andy Wasserman
"Every Breath I Take" - Robert Bonfiglio 

1995

"All Is Calm" - Robert Bonfiglio
"Noel" - Robert Bonfiglio 

1996

"Always On My Mind" - Robert Bonfiglio (For Time/Life Music) 

1997

"Healing In The Dark" - Blonde On Blonde