From late 1960's to early 1970's David Byron did a lot of session work mainly for a company called Avenue Records singing lead and backing vocals (there has rumoured that also other Uriah Heep members Mick Box & Paul Newton would have participated in these sessions as musicians but this has not been fully confirmed). These were cover versions of Top20 hits and were released on numerous EP's & LP's at the time. There are over hundred of tracks recorded during these sessions featuring David Byron on lead vocals but these records are extremely rare to find these days. However there are plans for these to be released on CD. Watch this space for info!

These tracks have been surfaced in various formats so far from Avenue Records 
sessions and other sources with Byron on vocals (original performer in parenthesis):
All Right Now (Free)
American Woman (The Guess Who)
Baby I Know
Baby Come Back (The Equals)
Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Behind A Painted Smile (The Isley Brothers)
Bet Yer Life I Do (Herman's Hermits)
Bring It On Home To Me (Sam Cooke/The Animals)
Cold Turkey (John Lennon)
Come And Get It (Badfinger)
Curly (The Move)
Give Peace A Chance (John Lennon)
Good Morning Freedom (Blue Mink) 
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (The Hollies)
Hello Susie (Amen Corner)
Hush, Not A Word To Mary (John Rowles)
I Hear You Knocking (Smiley Lewis/Dave Edmunds)
I'm Gonna' Make You Mine (Lou Christie)
It Don't Come Easy (Ringo Starr)
It Mek (Desmond Dekker And The Aces)
It's All In The Game (The Four Tops)
Just Like A Baby (Sly & the Family Stone)
Keep On (Bruce Channel)
Lady D'Arbanville (Cat Stevens)
Let It Be (The Beatles)
Let's Work Together (Canned Heat)
Long As I Can See The Light (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Melting Pot (Blue Mink) 
Montego Bay (Bobby Bloom)
Mony Mony (Tommy James)
Natural Born Boogie (Humble Pie)
Need Your Love So Bad (Fleetwood Mac)
Question (The Moody Blues)
Race With The Devil (Gun)
Rainbow (Marmalade)
Reflections Of My Life (Marmalade)
Rollin' And Tumblin' (trad.)
Sittin' Here Wonderin' (Louisiana Red)
Something Is Happening (Herman's Hermits)
Son Of Hickory Holler’s Tramp (O. C. Smith)
Soul Deep (The Box Tops)
Soul Sister Brown Sugar (Sam And Dave) 
Stop Her On Sight (Edwin Starr)
Sugar, Sugar (The Archies)
The Last Walz (Engelbert Humperdinck)
Tell Me What I Say (Ray Charles)
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye)
United We Stand (Brotherhood Of Man)
Urban Spaceman (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)
Viva Bobby Joe (The Equals)
What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) (Junior Walker & The All Stars)
Yellow River (Christie)
Yesterday Has Gone (P. J. Proby)
You Can Get It If You Really Want (Desmond Dekker And The Aces)
Yummy Yummy Yummy (Ohio Express)

Byron also did the vocals among some other singers to two albums by a group called John Smith And The New Sound, both released in 1968. It is yet unclear exactly on what tracks Byron sings on these albums.

In 1971 David appeared on two LP's by John Schroeder:

You've Made Me So Very Happy

Witchi Tai To

Byron's voice can be heard on the following tracks:
25 Or 6 To 4, Spinning Wheel, You've Made Me So Very Happy (You've Made Me So Very Happy), Back In The USSR (original performer The Beatles), The Bird Has Flown, Wanna Thank You Girl & Witchi Tai To (Witchi Tai To)

Note! A double cd compilation called Soal Coaxing - The Many Moods Of John Schroeder was released in 2005 and it includes all tracks with David Byron from these two lp's except 'Wanna Thank You Girl'

These were all just for money making while Uriah Heep was starting their career. After Look At Yourself became the first succesfull album he quit the session work and concentrated only on Uriah Heep

Byron also was involved with several projects with Peter Lee Stirling (known later as Daniel Boone) who was also one of the vocalists at Avenue Records sessions.

After leaving Uriah Heep David sang backing vocals on several albums in the late 70's such as Ian Lloy'ds 'Goosebumps' and Peter Bliss' self titled album. He also produced Denny And The Jets single Shoo-Be-Doo and again worked with Daniel Boone on several projects.

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