Tommy Faragher

Producer and songwriter

Tommy Faragher got his start with a 1980 publishing deal at 20th Century Fox, writing songs for Peter Criss and Dusty Springfield. In 1985, he produced Vanity's Motown album Skin on Skin, which included his co-written top ten R&B single "Under the Influence" with Robbie Nevil and Tony Haynes. After signing with MCA Music in 1986, Faragher relocated to New York and produced records for Brenda K Starr, The Jets, Elisa Fiorillo, and Arthur Baker. He wrote the top five hit "With Every Beat of My Heart" for Taylor Dayne in 1989 and produced Paul Young's number one Adult Contemporary cover of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" for the Fried Green Tomatoes soundtrack.

Through the early 1990s, he wrote and produced for The O'Jays, Al Green, Evelyn Champagne King, and Richard Elliot, as well as the top fifteen track "The Right Kind Of Love" for Jeremy Jordan on the Beverly Hills, 90210 soundtrack. He later wrote and produced the top five UK single "Oh Baby I..." for Eternal. In 1996, he became a staff writer for Warner Chappell Music. In 2000, Faragher appeared as an on-screen music producer for the Australian series Pop Stars, which helped inspire American Idol.

As executive music producer, he mixed Bardot's number one album and their number one single "Poison," and wrote and produced their top fifteen Australian single "I Should Have Never Let You Go." He signed a worldwide publishing deal with Sony Australia in 2001.

Glee

Faragher produced a cover of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" for Glee, which reached number one on Billboard's Digital Downloads chart on November 16, 2010, and number eight on the Hot 100. The cover sold 214,000 copies in its first week, becoming Glee's biggest song to date. He also produced the cover of Train's "Hey, Soul Sister" for the show, along with "Bills Bills Bills", "When I Get You Alone", "Silly Love Songs", "Animal", "Candles", "Raise Your Glass", "Misery", "What Kind Of Fool", "Somewhere Only We Know", and "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" for Glee. A Dalton Academy Warblers album was scheduled for release on April 19, 2011.