L.M. Hilton

Lalovi M. Hilton, better known as L.m. Hilton in musical circles, wasn't a professional musician, but a true folksinger, who sang in an unaffected, total uncommercial but honest and direct style. A police officer by trade based in Ogden, UT -- and at one point superintendent of the bureau of identification and records there -- and also a member of the high priest's presidency of the Ogden Stake of Zion, his moment of glory as a singer came when ethno-musicologist Willard Rhodes came calling in the early '50s. Hilton recorded what became a dazzling 10" LP from Folkways entitled Mormon Folk Songs, beautifully sung a cappella in an honest and authentic style for the microphones. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide