Andy Vallario is a jingle writer, musician, producer and president and chief creative officer of Media Results, Inc., a full-service Greater Boston advertising agency.

A year later his mother bought him his first electric guitar, and Vallario began writing songs that were heavily influenced by "hooky" melodies from his early idols, The Beatles.

[1] Vallario spent his high school and college days in several rock bands, writing, recording and performing his own music.

[2] In the mid Eighties, Vallario left his tenured teaching job to start his own music jingle company, Handy Productions, which he named after blues pioneer W.C.

Vallario began writing jingles for Greater Boston clients, but soon started producing music for regional and national advertisers like McDonald's, Burger King, Goodyear, Gulf Gasoline, Honda, Toyota, Fila and Dial-A-Mattress.