It's
hard to make a page about one of Alex Gitlin's all-time favourite pop bands,
but we'll give it a try. Here you can find discography, pictures from LP sleeves, articles, list of songs with John Lawton on vocals and more. I must stress that this page is not more than just a part of "Official John Lawton page", and primarily oriented to be about John's work with Les Humphries Singers. Unfortunately, not much is known now about LHS, to say truth there is nothing in press, in encyclopedias, but we're trying to gather all available bits of information. If you have some info not presented on this page, or article in press about LHS, your submissions to this page are highly welcomed. We are also looking for album lyrics.
LHS
was a band of _very_ many singers, usually singing in a choral sing-along
style, so it's hard sometimes even to define whether or not John Lawton
was involved in some of the recordings, but at least he was imminently
present on most album covers! He did sing lead vocals on quite a few songs:)
Reasons
for his collaboration with LHS were mostly "financial", although
we imagine it was fun to do at the time, as well. :-)
Vladimir Milovidov
Article taken from Official Uriah Heep homepage
Les Humphries Singers
Les Humphries Singers � the singing / pop / gospel band. John Lawton managed to be in for at least 4 years (1970-1974) in parallel with Lucifer's Friend (don't ask me how!): Well, I've been collecting their LPs for a little while now, and the "Humphries watch" has finally paid off:
1973 album, "Carnival" features a track called "Something I Saw" (excellent song!) with John Lawton on lead vocals!!
His
voice is unmistakeable, although there definitely aren't any vocal or instrumental
credits on any of the LHS albums (try imagining how much space the credits
would've taken � there was something like 15-20 people in that band!! :)
Alex Gitlin
Album covers scanned by Alex Gitlin