Trivia

His song, "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," hit #1 on the U.S. charts in April of 1958.

After his recording contract with the British Parlophone had already expired in 1961 and the German market also had nothing to offer after the last production with Ariola in April 1962, London withdrew from show business. He took up work with a property company and then ran a hotel in Sussex until 2000. He married in 1987 and settled in the London district of Palmer's Green.

His later cover versions of the Cliff Richard hit "Lucky Lips" (1963), and "The Bells of St. Mary" (CBS, 1966) went unnoticed.

At the age of thirteen, whilst a pupil at The Davenant Foundation Grammar School in Whitechapel Road, he made an up-tempo version of "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).

London has a credit as "singer" in the 1961 German movie "... und du mein Schatz bleibst hier" and he also appeared in the 1958 Danish film "Soldaterkammerater", where he performed "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands".

In April 1958, his hit ""He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" reached number 1 on Billboard's "Most Played by Jockeys" chart and remained there for four weeks, but it was to be his only hit record. It was the most successful record by a British male in the 1950s in the United States, topping the charts. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA in 1958.

London is mentioned along with his hit song "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" in the Colin MacInnes novel, Absolute Beginners.

He is an English singer, who achieved fame as a boy singer of the 1950s, for both his gospel and novelty songs recording in both English and German.

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.