Snuff Garrett [73949]
Age: 77 years
Birthday: 1938-07-05
Deathday: 2015-12-16
Birthplace: Dallas, Texas, USA
Credits: 1
Popularity: 0.1776
Links: Homepage, IMDB
Biography: Snuff Garrett or Tommy Garrett, was an American record producer whose most famous work was during the 1960s and 1970s. At seventeen, Garrett was a disc jockey in Lubbock, Texas, where he met Buddy Holly. In 1959, Garrett became a staff producer at Liberty Records in Hollywood at the age of 19, after having joined the label to work in the promotions department. Although not a musician, Garrett showed he had a knack for finding hit songs, going on to produce a string of hits and becoming the label's head of A&R until he left Liberty in 1966.