BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Description: Vocalis , UK
Known For: Song “Hes Got The Whole Word in His Hands”
Instruments: Vocals
Music Styles: Popular
Location: United Kingdom
Date Born: 19th January 1944
Location Born: Bethnal Green, United Kingdom
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Laurie London
An English singer, who achieved fame as a boy singer of the 1950s, recording in both English and German.
At the age of thirteen he made an up-tempo version of the spiritual song “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” with the Geoff Love Orchestra for Parlophone Records (45-R4359) which was picked up by its co-owned American sister label Capitol Records (F3891).
In April 1958, it reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and remained there for 4 weeks (#1 Most Played By Jockeys, #2 retail sales), but was to be his only hit record.
It was the most successful record by a British male in the 50’s in the USA, topping the charts.
According to one online source, “he worked at the Abbey Road Studios, London with such renowned record producers as Norman Newell and George Martin” and “special songs were written for him, tailored to the German taste in popular music, and he recorded them in Cologne and Munich with producer, Nils Nobach.”
He originally retired from singing at the age of nineteen.
Later cover versions of the Cliff Richard hit “Lucky Lips” (1963).
London then left the music industry except for a few rare public appearances.
He currently lives in North London.
Recordings
“He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands”
“Bum-Ladda-Bum-Bum (Boom-Ladda-Boom-Boom)”
“Auf wiederseh’n Marlen”
“Banjo Boy”
“Basin Street Blues”
“Bells Of St. Mary’s”
“Boomerang”
“Casey Jones”
“Cradle Rock”
“Dark Town Strutter’s Ball”
“Darling Sue”
“Down By The Riverside”
“God’s Little Acre”
“Gospel Train”
“Handed Down”
“Hear Them Bells”
“Hey, Hey – es wird Musik gemacht”
“Hopalong Cassidy”
“I’ll Make You Forget Him”
“I’m Afraid”
“I’m Gonna Walk And Talk With My Lord”
“I Gotta Robe”
“Ich bin nicht arm, ich bin nicht reich (I’m Not Poor, I’m Not Rich)”
“Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Strand Bikini”
“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho”
“Lucky Lips”
“Mamatschi”
“Mandolino Pling Plang Plong”
“My Mother”
“Nix Fraulein, nix Mademoiselle”
“Old Time Religion”
“Pick A Bale Of Cotton”
“Pretty Eyed Baby”
“Roll On Spring”
“Sad Songs”
“Schenk mir einen Traum”
“Schöne weisse Rose”
“Schritt für Schritt”
“(She Sells) Sea Shells”
“Three O’Clock”
“Today’s Teardrops”
“Up Above My Head”
“Wild und heiss”
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