Respected LadyLand - Gladys Hampton (Record Label Owner/Music Business BOSS)
3:00pm, 2-22-2025
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Gladys was known for being shrewd, tough, fair, and extremely stylish (unanimously voted the Best Dressed Woman of 1964 by the National Association of Fashion & Accessory Designers).
Though, as fierce as she was, during the 1930s and early 1940s the music biz wasn’t interested in making deals with a Black woman. The Hampton’s addressed that by sending a white man as surrogate to sign engagement contracts on the couple’s behalf.
Gladys did not let those barriers block her from becoming a pioneer in the record industry, founding her first record label Hamp-tone Records in 1946, making her one of the first (if not THE first) Black woman to own a record label in the USA.
Gladys did not let those barriers block her from becoming a pioneer in the record industry, founding her first record label Hamp-tone Records in 1946, making her one of the first (if not THE first) Black woman to own a record label in the USA.
Listen to music (primarily of the 1960s) recorded for Gladys Hampton's record labels: Hamp-Tone, Glad, and Glad-Hamp.
Primary Research sources:
Jet Magazine
Notable Black American Women, Book 2
Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter
Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination
- 3:00pm Drag Strip by The Rocketeers on 45 (Glad-Hamp Records)
- 3:02pm Brand New World by Roberta Sherwood w/Lionel Hampton on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:05pm Tom Collins by Lionel Hampton & His Jazz Inner Circle on 45 (Glad-Hamp Records)
- 3:08pm Mary Had A Little Lamb by The Travelers on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:10pm Gladys by Lionel Hampton on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:12pm Hey Ba Ba Re Bop Pt 1 by Wynonnie Harris on single (Hamp-Tone)
- 3:15pm Money Aint Everything by Sonny Parker with Gladys Hampton's Blues Boys on single (Peacock)
- 3:17pm Just In Time by Miyoko Hoshino & Lionel Hampton on East Meets West (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:20pm Railroad No 1 by Lionel Hampton on 45 (Glad Records)
- 3:23pm Tragedy by The English Setters on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:25pm Bossanova Jazz by Lionel Hampton on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:28pm Like Young by Bertice Reading w/Lionel Hampton Orch. on 45 (Glad Records)
- 3:31pm Greasy Greens by Lionel Hampton & His Inner Circle Of Jazz on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:33pm Little Annie by Anna Belle Caesar & Lionel Hampton on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:35pm Cool Charlie by Lionel Hampton and his Inner Circle on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:38pm Feelin Kind A Lonesome by Willie J Charles on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:41pm Hamps Twist Part 1 by Lionel Hampton Orch. on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:43pm Crawdad Hole by Maury Wills With Lionel Hampton & His All Stars on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:46pm I've Got My Man by Anna Belle Caesar & Lionel Hampton on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:49pm Swimmin Fishin by Lionel Hampton Orch. on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:51pm Everybody Loves My Baby by Pinnoccio James on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:52pm Hamp's Stamps by Lionel Hampton & His Jazz Inner Circle on 45 (Glad-Hamp)
- 3:55pm Chameleon by Lionel Hampton Jazz Orch on 45 (Glad-Hamp)