Laurie London

Who is Laurie London?

Laurie London is an English singer, who achieved fame as a boy singer of the 1950s, recording in both English and German.

At the age of thirteen, whilst a pupil at The Davenant Foundation Grammar School in Whitechapel Road, 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 which was picked up by its co-owned American sister label Capitol Records. In April 1958, it reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and remained there for 4 weeks, 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 participated in the 1959 "Deutsches Schlager-Festival" singing "Bum Ladda Bum Bum".