- Real name
- Sidney Reginald Garris
- Born
- December 31, 1921
- Died
- August 30, 2006
- Country
- United States
- IPI
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00011441931 1 work
- Affiliation
- BMI
- Comments
- Music industry businessman born in New York City. He was a violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and later with the Dayton Philharmonic. In the late 1940s and early 1950s he was a jazz disc jockey in Ohio (Dayton and Cleveland), where he was known as "Symphony Sid." (He was not the "Symphony Sid" jazz disc jockey in the New York City area,) In 1953 he relocated to the West Coast where he managed the Four Freshmen, Ray Anthony and Stan Kenton. In the 1960s he managed the New Christy Minstrels, Anthony Qunn, Robert Culp and Jose Feliciano. He also ran a delicatessen, a nightclub and several record labels (Go Go, GreGar and Crusader). Garris was also a songwriter best known for providing new lyrics for Sy Oliver's "Opus One."
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