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Thomas J. Valentino (died August 4 1986) was an American businessman of Italian descent being amongst the first to develop libraries of sound effects and taped music.Born in Sicily he began his career in the 1920s as a piano and organ tuner serving trans-Atlantic steamers docking in New York. In the 1930s he became a sales representative for Gennett Recordings before starting his own sound effects company named Thomas J. Valentino Inc. that now operates as simply Valentino Inc.