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Ted Jarrett

real name Theodore R. Jarrett

Ted Jarrett is credited on 839 releases across 198 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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839

Credits

198

Albums

8

Decades active

87

In collections

Biography

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US singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and label owner, perhaps most famous for writing and producing Gene Allison's 1957 hit, "You Can Make It If You Try". Jarrett ran a succession of record labels:,,,,,,,,,. Ted Jarrett brought R&B to Nashville, TN. Ted published an autobiography in 2005 titled "You Can Make It If You Try: The Ted Jarrett Story of R&B in Nashville".
Born October 17, 1925, in Nashville, USA. Died 21 March 2009 in Nashville, USA. His father was shot dead by the boyfriend of his mistress. For the next five years, his mother struggled to raise him and his sister before eventually packing them off to their grandmother in rural Rutherford County.

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Credited work

839 releases · 198 albums · active 1950–2025

  • Performance · 864
  • Production · 146
  • Other credits · 5

Studios: Regent Sound Studios · Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville · Sam Phillips Studio, Nashville

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