| LC control no. | n 89106162 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Garrett, Snuff |
| Variant(s) | Garrett, Tommy Garrett, Thomas Lesslie |
| See also | 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett |
| Located | Paradise Valley (Ariz.) |
| Birth date | 1939-07-05 |
| Death date | 2015-12-16 |
| Place of birth | Dallas (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Tucson (Ariz.) |
| Field of activity | Sound recordings--Production and direction |
| Profession or occupation | Sound recording executives and producers |
| Found in | Allen, R. My life, sunrise to sunset, c1989: t.p. (Snuff Garrett) 9th prelim. p. (produced 40 Top Ten records; supervised movies; owns company The Nostalgia Merchant; lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona; semi-retired) Maria Elena, 1964: container (Tommy "Snuff" Garrett) New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 24, 2015 (in obituary published Dec. 23: Snuff Garrett; b. Thomas Lesslie Garrett, July 5, 1939, Dallas; got his nickname, derived from Levi Garrett, a popular brand of snuff, in junior high school; d. Dec. 16, Tucson, aged 76; former Texas disc jockey who was forsaken by his own music teachers but became a millionaire by the time he was 30 producing records for Bobby Vee, Del Shannon, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, and other artists; produced a series of instrumental albums under the name The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett) |
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