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Edward Bohlin Director’s Chair made for Snuff Garrett (b 1939)

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Edward Bohlin Director’s Chair made for Snuff Garrett (b 1939)
Artistically floral carved leather director’s chair made for the irascible retired record producer during his tenure as owner of the Bohin Company in the early 1980s. Excellent condition

Snuff Garrett (b 1939)
Born Thomas Lesslie Garrett in Dallas, Texas, Snuff is a retired American record producer whose most famous work was during the 1960s and 1970s. His nickname is a play on Garrett's Snuff, a brand of snuff. At seventeen, he was a disc jockey in Lubbock, Texas, where he met Buddy Holly. Garrett also worked in radio in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he performed on-air stunts. Among Garrett's artists were Bobby Vee, Gene McDaniels, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Johnny Burnette, and later Sonny & Cher. Snuff was a staff producer at Liberty Records during the 1960s, and was responsible for hiring the now notorious, Phil Spector as a producer. Later he had his own record label, Snuff Garrett Records. Many of Garrett's hit singles came from songs by the Brill Building songwriters in New York City. His longtime assistant was future recording star Leon Russell. In 1978, Garrett produced the country-oriented soundtrack of Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way But Loose, which appeared on Garrett's latter-day label, Viva Records. Snuff claims to have a lifelong obsession with the cowboy myth, which he attributes to watching westerns at the local theatres on Saturday morning. Some of his closest friends included Rex Allen, and Roy Rogers (an important, father-figure to him).