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).
In April 1958, it 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.
[2] According to one online source,[3] "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."
London has a credit[4] as "singer" in the 1961 German movie … und du mein Schatz bleibst hier [de] and he also appeared in the 1958 Danish film Soldaterkammerater, where he performed "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands".
Later cover versions of the Cliff Richard hit "Lucky Lips" (1963) and "The Bells of St. Mary" (CBS, 1966) went unnoticed.