Lloyd Fry Garrett (July 2, 1886 – April 15, 1966) was a tenor in vaudeville and musical comedy as well as a composer and lyricist.

[1] However, after three years at Drake University he joined his brother Hoyt W. Garrett, a pianist, in pursuing a career in entertainment.

[2] He was initially a saxophonist, first with the Colonial Saxophone Quartette and after 1907 in a duo with his brother; but he quickly became better known as a singer, leading The Melody Makers, a quartet managed by the Redpath agency, often on the Chautauqua circuit.

[3] He was a high tenor and evidently possessed a fine falsetto; in 1915–16 he was featured as a "boy soprano" with Ralph Dunbar’s Bell-Ringers.

These evidence skill and wit, making accomplished use of the emerging language of jazz and playing musically upon ethnic stereotypes.