Greg Hambleton
Greg Hambleton is a Canadian music industry entrepreneur living in Hamilton, ON. Over the years he has been a record producer, recording engineer, songwriter and music label executive with Axe Records.
Hambleton was the recording engineer when in 1968, Canadian music icon Stompin' Tom Connors, then an aspiring country-folk singer/songwriter, recorded at Toronto's Sound Canada studio to make his debut album, Tragedy Trail, and single, Sudbury Saturday Night. Hambleton heard a loud tapping from around Connors' foot; he found a piece of plywood and had Connors stand on it as he recorded. The board became Connors' legendary trademark.
He was involved with the careers of Rain, a Kitchener pop-rock group featuring Charity Brown which had a Canadian No. 22 hit in 1971 with the Hambleton-written Out Of My Mind; Major Hoople's Boarding House, a pop-rock band that earned Canadian Top 20 in 1975 with I'm Running After You, with Hambleton's production; Gary and Dave, who had a Canadian No. 1 with Could You Ever Love Me Again; Madrigal, The Irish Rovers, Steel River, and The Stampeders.[1]
References
- ↑ "Hamilton music impresario revisits Kitchener past". therecord.com. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
- ↑ http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/greg-hambleton-helped-bring-canadian-music-industry-to-life-and-now-canadian-music-has-returned-the-favour Dave Bidini 9-Nov-2012
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/classic-canadian-record-label-resurrected-in-hamilton-1.1387007
- ↑ http://www.metronews.ca/news/kitchener/2014/06/17/music-impresario-greg-hambleton-revisits-kitchener-past.html
- ↑ http://greghambleton.ca/about Current Bio