Laurie London
Laurie London ( born January 19, 1944 in London) is a former British pop singer. He was in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a child star, with successes in the U.S. and Germany.
Life
London began to learn to play the guitar at an early age pupils. In one of the public BBC Music shows "6 Special " he went spontaneously for the first time as a singer on and excited with the presented pieces The Balad Of Jessie James, a country song and the skiffle Title Do not Rock Me, Daddy -O 's attention a representative of the British record label Parlophone. This invited the 13 -year-olds to test shots in the Abbey Road Studios, which later became known by the Beatles, a. There he came under the care of the producer Norman Newell, who worked with pop stars such as Shirley Bassey and Russ Conway later. After London had a positive impression with the test shots, brought Parlophone in September 1957, the first London - board with the titles He 's Got The Whole World In His Hand and The Cradle rock, arranged by Geoff Love, out. Surprisingly for the participants who had initially provided The Cradle rock as an A- side, the gospel song He 's Got The Whole World ... developed into a worldwide hit. Although he arrived in Britain with New Musical Express only up to 12th place, on the other hand he landed on the American Billboard in April 1958 to second place. In the USA the title of the record company Capitol (No. 3891 ) was released in Germany published the British EMI subsidiary Odeon entitled under catalog number 29184 in July 1958. He held in the German hit parade early August 1958 collection and managed up to the fifth.
Record company and family did everything they could to further expand the surprising success. Laurie left school, his father took over the management and Parlophone produced more plates with his young star. It was also the American market with radio and television appearances, such as on the Ed Sullivan Show, on with the visor. They tried it on with the Gospel mesh, but all recorded titles brought no success. The Danish EMI branch tried in March 1959 to promote London's career with a collaboration with the Danish child star Gitte and produced the duet shot Pretty Eyed Baby. Although the title together with the London - solo Boom Ladda - Boom-Boom on the B - side in the UK ( Parlophone 4557 ) and the U.S. ( Roulette 4176 ) was published, he did not bring the hoped-for return to winning ways.
The London / Gitte plate was put on the market in Germany Odeon (No. 21239 ). Even there they were not acknowledged, helped London but in a different way to a career move. The German EMI managers were using the text author Fred Seltzer, who had a German text written on Boom - Ladda - Boom-Boom, the idea to bring out London with a German plate. The that produced by Nils Nobah single was released in November 1959 with the Germanized title Bum- Ladda -Bum -Bum and the B-side Beautiful White Rose (adaptation of the title theme of the film God's Little Acre ) under Electrola 21349th On December 12, 1959 listed the music market Bum- Ladda ... for the first time. among the top 50, after which the title was for four weeks at number ten In the hits of the year 1960, the foxtrot was ranked 28 at night before Bert Kaempfert Wonderland. But the German singing London remained from another plate successes. Odeon brought to the end of 1960 out three other German -speaking plates with the young Englishman, without this been able to place in the charts. Also unsuccessful were also produced two of Nobah singles that have been released by the German label Ariola 1962.
As in the German record market, leaving Laurie London also in the German film tracks. Initially he was kammerater to see 1959 in the German version Into the pleasure of the Danish original Soldater, 1960, he sang in the hit parade strip on the side of Ted Herold, Bill Ramsey, among others 1961 London sang in the Austrian film ... and you stay my treasure here on the unpublished record title Hey, hey - it's done music.
After early as 1961, his recording contract was leaked to the British Parlophone and also the German market had nothing more to offer after the last production at Ariola from April 1962 to London withdrew from show business. He began working at a real estate company and led thereafter until 2000, a hotel in Sussex. He married in 1987 and settled in London's Palmer 's Green.