LIONEL HAMPTON - FIRST DAY COVER WITH AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED - HFSID 178555
Price: $90.00
LIONEL HAMPTON. First Day Cover inscribed and signed: "Best
Wishes/To Bob/Lionel Hampton", 6½x3¾. FDC in the Vignettes of Americana
series honoring "The drum that Led Americans at the Battle of Guilford
Courthouse 1781", two 7.9-cent Beat the Drum for Liberty stamps affixed,
postmarked Miami, Florida, April 23, 1976, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. Background
on the stamp imprinted on verso. Lionel Leo Hampton (1908-2002), the first
jazz vibraphonist, began his career as a drummer. Louis Armstrong
encouraged him to try the vibraphone, used by NBC radio to announce
intermissions. Their 1930 recording of "Memories of You" forever associated
Hampton with the instrument, although he was also an accomplished piano
player. In 1940, Hampton formed his own band, which became the first Black band
to tour the racially segregated South with a white singer (1950). Slightly
creased at corners. Fine condition.
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