Greg Hambleton is a Canadian music industry entrepreneur living in

Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hamilton has a population of 569,353, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is approximately southwest of T ...

. Over the years he has been a record producer, recording engineer, songwriter and music label executive with

Axe Records Axe Records is a Canadian record label founded by Greg Hambleton in 1972. After a number of years of inactivity, the label was revived in 2013. It is particularly notable as the original recording label of Canadian duo Gary and Dave. History ...

Career

Hambleton was the recording engineer when in 1968, Canadian music icon

Stompin' Tom Connors Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 – March 6, 2013) was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has rele ...

, 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 "Sudbury Saturday Night" is one of the most famous songs by Stompin' Tom Connors, which depicts the hard-drinking, hard-partying social life of hard rock miners in the Northern Ontario mining city of Sudbury. The song's chorus is: : ''Yeah, the ...

''. "Greg Hambleton helped bring Canadian music industry to life, and now Canadian music has returned the favour"
''National Post''. November 9, 2012. Retrieved December 16, 2016. 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 also helped record Connors' second album ''Tragedy Train''.Carter, Adam
"Classic Canadian record label resurrected in Hamilton"
''CBC News''. July 29, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2016. After working for a number of recording studios, including RCS and Sound Canada, Hambleton started his own record label, AXE Records. Through this label he produced the first album of the band Thundermug. He was involved with the careers of Rain, a Kitchener pop-rock group featuring Charity Brown">Thundermug (band)">Thundermug. 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 The Irish Rovers is a group of Irish musicians that originated in Toronto, Canada. Formed in 1963'Irish Rovers are Digging out those old Folk songs', By Ballymena Weekly Editor, Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, N. Ireland – 20 August 1964 and na ...

, Steel River, and

The Stampeders The Stampeders (sometimes shortened to Stampeders) are a Canadian rock trio consisting of lead guitarist and vocalist Rich Dodson, bassist Ronnie King and drummer Kim Berly. History Formed in Calgary, Alberta, in 1964 as the Rebounds. they h ...

Record labels

Tuesday Records

Tuesday Records was owned by Greg Hambleton. He also owned Tuesday Music Productions. An article appeared in the June 27, 1970 issue of ''Billboard'' that Hambleton had signed an agreement with Quality Records for the distribution of his emerging label. At that time, Toronto band Steel River had released a single "Ten Pound Note" which was the first in the label's catalogue. Hambleton was due to make a trip to Western Canada to coordinate the promotional arrangement with Quality distributors for the label's roster. He was also meeting with the press and radio people. A group on the Tuesday label, Antique Fair had a hit with " Fuddle-Duddle" in 1971. Hambleton had produced it. Quality Records' George Struth the assistant to the VP of the label had set up a deal for US distribution on the Bang Records label.''Billboard'', April 24, 1971
Page 50 Canadian News Report, Bang Deal on 'Fuddle-Duddle'
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hambleton, Greg Living people Canadian music industry executives People from Hamilton, Ontario Canadian record producers Year of birth missing (living people)