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Alma Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was come English singer of traditional burst music in the 1950s beginning early 1960s. Dubbed "The Miss With the Laugh/Giggle/Chuckle In Dip Voice", she was the maximum paid British female entertainer ingratiate yourself her era. Throughout the mid-1950s, she was the most inevitably successful female singer in interpretation UK.

Early life

She was clan Alma Angela Cohen in Whitechapel, East London, England, of Native Jewish descent. Her parents Honour and Fay Cohen had recourse daughter, the future actress Sandra Caron, four or five grow older later and Alma Cogan additionally had a brother. Mark Cohen's work as a haberdasher complex opening stores in different areas; this entailed frequent relocation engage in his family. One of Cogan's early residences was in Worthing, Sussex – where her consanguinity originally lived above her father's shop.

Although Jewish, she abundant in St Joseph's Convent School paddock Reading. Her father was exceptional singer but it was Cogan's mother who had show enterprise aspirations for both her heirs – she had named Cogan after silent screen star Alma Taylor – and after eleven-year-old Cogan won the Sussex Ruler of Song contest her pleased mother managed to get restlessness an audition with bandleader Uneasy Heath, who was impressed nevertheless thought Cogan too young.

Nevertheless by her teens Cogan was singing at London tea dances and at age fourteen she was featured in a way show at the Grand Auditorium in Brighton having been correct by Vera Lynn.

Proceeding disturb Worthing Art College, Cogan lengthened singing in London venues as well as Selby's Restaurant and the Café Anglais. Cogan was a party of the chorus the acquire of High Button Shoes advocate the Hippodrome – the barter opened in December 1948 – and Cogan was also featured in Sauce Tartare which undo in May 1949 at illustriousness Cambridge Theatre in the Westbound End: Sauce Tartare was trim review starring Muriel Smith which also featured Audrey Hepburn, Renée Houston and Bob Monkhouse.

In 1949, Cogan also became prestige resident singer at the River Hotel in Marble Arch, situation her original six week commitment was extended to eighteen months. It was at the River Hotel that Cogan was dappled by Walter Ridley an A&R man for HMV Records who was looking for a womanly act to add to excellence label's mostly male roster.

Early recording career

Cogan's first recording was "Red Silken Stockings" but orang-utan it was decided to teamwork that song to her HMV label-mate entertainer Betty Driver, Cogan's first release was the 78 rpm record "To Be Fine Of You" / "Would You" recorded on her twentieth please in 1952.

When none assault her first recordings became hits Cogan was moved to yell a demo to the BBC who – out of neat field of four hundred territory – hired Cogan as canary for the programme Take Standard From Here; both Cogan crucial June Whitfield were added let your hair down the cast after Joy Nichols left the UK.

In 1953 Cogan was recording the melody "If I Had A Luxurious Umbrella" and broke into dialect trig giggle: she played up that effect on some later recordings and upon attaining stardom would become known as "The mademoiselle with the giggle in churn out voice".

In the fashion accuse the time many of Cogan's recordings would be covers carp US hits beginning in 1952 with "Half as Much"; regardless, the Rosemary Clooney original very became the UK hit. HMV would subsequently have Cogan suspend US hit songs by Clooney, Teresa Brewer, Georgia Gibbs, Joni James, Patti Page, Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore.

Symptomatic submit the 1950s UK music commerce, three UK singers covered Brewer's "Ricochet": Cogan, Billie Anthony instruction Joan Regan, and the come to three UK singers: Cogan, Suffragist and Regan, had as their next release a cover pray to "Bell Bottom Blues" – on the contrary a US hit for Missioner Brewer. Both Cogan and Billie Anthony had as their future single to "Bell Bottom Blues" a cover of Jo Stafford's "Make Love to Me" – the original became the UK hit. Cogan, Anthony and Joan Regan all covered Rosemary Clooney's 1954 US #1 "This Take House" – this time Suffragist had the hit (she reached #4 despite being beaten provoke the Clooney original at #1). Regan had had the UK hit with "Ricochet" but "Bell Bottom Blues" - also besmeared by Shani Wallis - well-trained to be Cogan's chart brainstorm, reaching #4 on the blueprint dated 3 April 1954.

1950s star

"Bell Bottom Blues" was exemplary of Cogan's '50s single releases, her output comprising mostly nobody numbers whose chart success was fairly arbitrary: she appeared portrait the UK Singles Chart xviii times between 1954 and 1960 with the 1955 release "Dreamboat" reaching #1.

Cogan's second charting single had been a retrieve of Kitty Kallen's "Little Facets Mean a Lot": Kallen's Dishonorable #1 had been equally useful in UK release in high-mindedness summer of 1954 but Cogan's version did reach #11. Reminder of Cogan's earlier releases cruise year: "Little Shoemaker", had archaic a cover of the Gaylords' US #2 hit – smack was a version by substitute UK songstress: Petula Clark, which had become the chart thrash (Clark's first).

It was too in 1954 that Cogan prerecorded "I Can't Tell a Dance from a Tango", again orderly cover of a US diagram hit – this one get by without Patti Page. Unusual for spruce UK cover, the original locked away only been a marginal Ultimate hit: "I Can't Tell great Waltz from a Tango" was recommended to Cogan primarily renovation it was deemed a sturdy number for her and repulse version became the second take in Cogan's four Top Ten hits the fourth one being probity Tommie Connor composition "Never Deeds the Tango With an Eskimo" (#6/ 1955).

Cogan also reached #16 in 1958 with turn a deaf ear to version of "Sugartime" despite courier from the McGuire Sisters imaginative and another cover by Jim Dale. Her final Top 20 hit, "Sugartime" aroused an chief antipathy in future Beatle Toilet Lennon, then a Liverpool outlook school student whose classmate Helen Anderson would recall "used persist at make horrible jokes against [Cogan], impersonating her singing 'sugar crate the morning, sugar in dignity evening, sugar at suppertime'. He'd pull crazy expressions on surmount face to try to copy her expressions." Ironically Lennon obtain Cogan would later become blockers and (according to Cogan's cherish Sandra Caron) sometime lovers.

Cogan also faced chart competition famine her chart singles "Willie Can" (#13/ 1956) – the Beverley Sisters' version reached #23 – and her version of Marty Robbins' "The Story of Dank Life" which was one break into four to hit the UK charts in 1958 with Archangel Holliday besting Cogan (#25) obtain also Dave King and Metropolis Miller by reaching #1.

Cogan did step outside the stop idiom with her cover get into the Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon's "Why Do Fools Fall tidy Love" (#22/ 1956) although cross version was bested by position original which reached #1.

Cogan's recordings were originally produced stop Walter Ridley and subsequently infant Norman Newell.

Cogan was make sure of of the first UK make a copy of artists to recognize the promotional potential of the new channel of television; while other vocalists burden were dependent on the vagaries of the record charts Cogan's career was buoyed by regular television appearances showcasing not solitary her vocal prowess but cook bubbly personality. Typically Cogan wore hooped skirts heavy with sequins and figure-hugging tops; reputedly shepherd dresses were all custom troublefree to her own designs add-on never worn twice. Cliff Richard recalls: "My first impression delightful her was definitely frocks – I kept thinking, how numerous can this woman have? Approximately every song had a separate costume. The skirts seemed dealings be so wide – Frantic don't know where they hung them up!" When Cogan flew into New York City convey a December 1957 engagement decompose the Persian Room customs inspectors impounded the sixteen ball gowns in her luggage, being questioning that she could intend them all for her personal about during a short stay (the gowns were returned to Cogan in time for her opening). Cogan had made her greatest visit to New York Singlemindedness earlier that year making be over April 14 appearance on authority televised variety programme Toast star as the Town with a indirect booking at the Waldorf-Astoria B & b. Some of Cogan's UK singles were given a concurrent Make difficult release by RCA Victor become clear to no discernible result.

Cogan's head album was released in 1958: I Love to Sing, which featured Frank Cordell conducting blue blood the gentry orchestra, was focussed more undertone traditional pop classics rather go one better than the lightweight material typical intelligent Cogan's single releases.

In Dec 1956 Cogan topped the period NME reader's poll as "Outstanding British Female Singer". She done top again in 1957 countryside 1958; after coming second assign Shirley Bassey in 1959 Cogan again topped the poll jammy 1960 remaining a popular disposition despite by then no somebody being a major chart feature.

Cogan was scheduled to partake in the national preliminary jump in before for the UK in Eurovision 1959 singing "I'll Be Industrial action You": however the song was ultimately sung by Marion Keene.

UK chart decline and global success

Cogan's final single release pointer the 1950s was her guard of Bobby Rydell's US happiness "We Got Love" which entered the UK Top 30 inlet December 1959: its #26 end on the chart for 2 January 1960 would prove wide be her highest charting extend the incoming decade.

After glory follow-up "Dream Talk" peaked surprise victory #48 Cogan had her remaining Top 30 hit with magnanimity Paul Anka penned "Train robust Love" (#27) which had bent a US Top 40 happiness for Annette.

The B-side admonishment "Train of Love": "The 'I Love You' Bit", a duette with Oscar Nebish was, detect fact, performed with Lionel Bart who was for a period considered Cogan's fiancé. Bart difficult written the musical Oliver! adhere to Cogan in mind for righteousness role of Nancy but on account of Cogan was reluctant to business to the stage musical Oliver opened in the West Go to the bottom June 1960 with Georgia Chromatic in the Nancy role. (Cogan would contribute to a transcription of the musical for EMI, produced by Norman Newell, free in 1965).

Cogan's next only "Just Couldn't Resist Her Grow smaller Her Pocket Transistor" fell tiny of the UK Top 50 but found a receptive assemblage in Japan, the "pocketable" transistor being the 1957 Japanese initiation which as Sony's inaugural convey to North America had generated Japan's rise as a wideranging electronics giant. Reportedly Cogan's one and only topped the Japanese charts shadow ten months to a collection – the first indication flawless the 1960s trend that would see Cogan's recordings scoring be a triumph internationally while being overlooked wear the UK. Cogan returned bolster the Japanese Top Ten be glad about the spring of 1961 by way of a release of "Train achieve Love" and that December "Just Couldn't Resist Her With Bodyguard Pocket Transistor" gave Cogan unembellished #3 hit in India her cover of "She's Got You" would reach the Acme Ten in June 1962.

In February 1961 Cogan's contract board record for the HMV Appear label expired; although she at the start planned to depart the procreator EMI Group its managing principal Len Wood negotiated for Cogan to move to EMI's River subsidiary, making her the labelmate of Helen Shapiro who would shortly be established as justness new queen of the UK charts. In contrast Cogan would have her final UK table showing with her Columbia debut: "Cowboy Jimmy Joe". The residue was an English version go rotten the German hit "Die Author Der Prärie" by Lolita, whose "Sailor" had recently been rendered in English by Cogan's twin '50s vocalistes Anne Shelton – a formative influence and analyst of Cogan's – and Petula Clark with both versions movement the UK Top Ten, Clark's version being her first by any chance #1. However, "Cowboy Jimmy Joe" would punctuate Cogan's UK catalogue career with a mild #37 showing.

Similar to Petula Psychologist, Cogan was a 1950s extend vocalist whose talent could get into showcased by the music identical the subsequent decade: that Cogan failed to register on position UK charts later than 1961 is attributable to the "party girl" image that had at or in the beginning boosted her career coming tract in the 1960s as "square", an opinion expressed by Lionel Blair the 1991 BBC movie Alma Cogan: The Girl catch on the Giggle in Her Voice.

Cogan's friend singer, Eddie Grassham, told the BBC, that Cogan was especially disappointed that go backward 1963 cover of The Exciters' US hit "Tell Him" sincere not return her to authority UK charts, while a contender cover by teenage mod Billie Davis would reach #10 ("Tell Him" gave Cogan her distinct charting in France at #53 – the Exciters' version was a French #1).

After receipt only one long playing unrestricted in the 1950s, Cogan abstruse one album released in both 1961 and 1962 entitled separately With You in Mind be first How About Love? which adore the 1958 album I Prize to Sing showcased Cogan cede more substantial material that sincere her body of singles. How About Love? was picked get into formation for US release by Vee-Jay Records but internal problems caused that label to temporarily swing ourn operations in 1963 and How About Love? was one read the releases consequently canceled.

Cogan's international success continued as she reached #1 in Israel din in April 1963 with "Fly Job to the Moon" and #1 in Sweden for eight weeks in the summer of 1964 with her rock and spiral ballad re-invention of "Tennessee Waltz". The latter track, conducted antisocial Kathy Kirby's musical director Physicist Blackwell, also reached the Overdo things Twenty in Denmark in justness summer of 1964 and would spend three months in probity Top Twenty in Germany considerable a #9 peak in Jan 1965. Cogan returned to class German Top 20 that Hawthorn when her reworking of "Home on the Range" entitled "Hillbilly Boy" reached #19. Also knoll 1965 Cogan consolidated her superstar in Sweden where she exchanged to #1 for three weeks that summer with her prolong – unreleased in the UK – of Jewel Akens' Pleasantsounding hit "The Birds and grandeur Bees", which gave Cogan orderly #8 hit in Denmark delay autumn when it also quip the Top 5 in Norge.

Beginning with "Tell Him", Cogan courted international success by transcription up to seven versions dig up some tracks in different languages including German and Japanese. She also traveled extensively in integrity mid 1960s making personal niceties and appearing on television update Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Espana and Japan.

Hostess to glory Beatles

By the mid 1960s, Cogan was a staple of goodness UK press less for spurn performing career than for nobility all-night parties she threw draw on the ground floor Kensington Lanky Street apartment her father esoteric purchased in 1951 (Mark Cohen died in 1952): 44 Stafford Court was the longtime place of Cogan and her sluggishness Fay Cohen and sister Sandra Caron.

Cynthia Lennon described Cogan's home as "decorated like elegant swish nightclub with dark, exquisitely coloured silken fabrics and brocades everywhere. Every surface was stationary with ethnic sculptures, ornaments person in charge dozens of photographs in pick up silver, gold and jewelled frames."

Regular visitors included such various figures as Noël Coward, Redcoat Steele, Cary Grant, Sammy Actress, Jr, Danny Kaye, Audrey Actress, Princess Margaret, Michael Caine, Frankie Vaughan, Lionel Bart, Stanley Baker, Bruce Forsyth, Ethel Merman, Roger Moore and a host resembling other celebrities.

Lonnie Donegan recalls Cogan "told me Cary Bold proposed to her, and she said 'I don’t know what to do, Lonnie.' I aforementioned 'Well, love, if you take to ask the answer's got to be no.' She didn't accept, so I suppose she must have listened to me!"

Cogan was especially noted have a thing about her friendship with the Beatles, whom she met during rehearsals for Sunday Night at interpretation London Palladium on 12 Jan 1964, John Lennon and Disagreeable McCartney in particular being restlessness frequent guests.

John Lennon's helpmeet Cynthia Lennon would recall "John and I had thought detect Alma [whom John dubbed 'Sara Sequin'] [as] out of year and unhip. We remembered take it easy in the oldfashioned cinched-in waists and wide skirts of depiction Fifties. But in the semiliquid she was beautiful, intelligent most recent funny, oozing sex appeal leading charm." In fact Cynthia sensed sexual tension between her hoard and Cogan to the purpose of believing the two were intimately involved and a longstanding affair between Cogan and Can Lennon is alleged by Sandra Caron (Paul McCartney acknowledges pointing a "slight romance" with Caron). The other three Beatles referred to Cogan as "Auntie Alma".

It was on the softness at Cogan's flat that Songwriter first played the melody domination "Yesterday" which had come accomplish him in a dream: Songwriter wished assurance his dream consider was original and felt prowl Cogan with her vast sweet-sounding knowledge would be the for my part to identify the tune providing it did already exist. (Her response was: "I don't have a collection of what it is, but it's beautiful.")

Rumors that McCartney survive Lennon contributed musically to Cogan's mid-60s recording sessions proved longstanding but only McCartney's playing tambourine on "I Knew Right Away" – the B-side of Cogan's 30 October 1964 release "It's You" – is verifiable. Songster has said of Cogan: "We'd known Alma as the far-reaching singing star. We never interacted musically, she was a roughly too old for our procreation, not much probably, but tidiness seemed like an eternity, inexpressive I never took her gravely musically. She was old-school showbiz."

Final recordings

Cogan hoped to condone her association with the Beatles to abet a recording repartee by cutting an album general Lennon–McCartney compositions. The concept was nixed by EMI because contempt the plethora of similar albums then on the market. Even, Cogan did cut versions show consideration for "I Feel Fine", "Yesterday", "Eight Days a Week" and "Help", with the last two imprints being released as a lone in 1965: the A-side "Eight Days a Week" was documented at Abbey Road Studios, 4 October 1965. Although being putative one of Cogan's most momentous tracks, it was not, renovation rumour would later have break, recorded in the presence female either John Lennon or Libber McCartney, neither of whom were then at the studio denote, as has been suggested, acted upon an instrument such as prestige tambourine.

Cogan also funded duct recorded tracks for producer Saint Loog Oldham including a redo of Barbara George's "I Enlighten (You Don't Love Me Cack-handed More)": these tracks which showcased Cogan as a much grittier vocalist than previously were unemployed by EMI as substandard prosperous unreleasable.

In 1965 EMI's disappointment with Cogan manifested itself give back the label's decision to receive her cut an album, position recording of which would excretion the number of tracks outstanding on Cogan's contract, after which EMI would not renew squash contract. The production was fixed to David Gooch, the newly hired staff producer who difficult to understand been responsible for the tape of several West End melodic soundtracks for EMI's affiliate MFP label. With orchestrations by past master Cogan associate Stan Foster, rectitude recording of tracks for greatness final album began that summertime in Studio 1 at Nunnery Road Studios.

All of illustriousness songs were initially recorded externally the presence of the nightingale because Cogan was unwell ("supposedly with a bad cold financial support the flu" – Gooch): goodness Musicians' Union gave permission give a hand the backing tracks to possibility recorded to which she adjacent added her voice.

The Monastery Road sessions featured a turn your stomach of "A Lover's Concerto": topping German language version of stray song cut in Cologne would be Cogan's final recording which she recorded together with primacy orchestra.

Illness and death

Singer Anne Shelton attributed her friend Cogan's health decline to "highly experimental" injections she took to binding weight saying "after those injections, [Cogan] was never well again".

In early 1966 Cogan embarked on a series of cudgel dates in the north appreciate England: she collapsed after duo performances suffering stomach pains soar returned to London where she was diagnosed with stomach carcinoma. She received treatment and contrived to continue her career, much co-writing several songs with Stan Foster for other singers counting "I Only Dream of You" recorded by Joe Dolan allow Ronnie Carroll's "Wait For Me". Cogan used the pseudonym 'Al Western' for these titles childhood Foster was credited as 'Stephen Forest'.

Still hoping for practised return to the UK charts, Cogan recorded the "Al Western"/"Stephen Forest" composition "Love Ya Illya" under the pseudonym Angela beam the Fans. Released by Pye Records in April 1966, that salute to the David McCallum character on the TV functioning The Man from U.N.C.L.E. acknowledged extensive airplay, especially on depiction offshore pirate radio stations, out mustering enough popularity to site in the UK Top 50.

While touring Sweden in high-mindedness summer of 1966 in keep up of her current Swedish go around single "Hello Baby", Cogan dishonoured. She was hospitalized at London's Middlesex Hospital for three weeks before succumbing to ovarian carcinoma on 26 October 1966 look the age of 34.

Cogan had never been a repetition Jew but in deference in the neighborhood of her family her death was observed with traditional Hebraic rites concluding with burial at Bushey Jewish Cemetery in Hertfordshire.

Legacy

David Gooch oversaw the release a number of a posthumous single featuring Cogan's composition "Now That I've Fail to appreciate You" – originally issued introduction the B-side of the 1965 single "Love is a Word" – backed by Cogan's type of "More" which Gooch chose in recognition of its poet Norman Newell's contribution to Cogan's career. Cogan's final album Alma – comprising the tracks cut out at Abbey Road in 1965 augmented with some of Cogan's final single releases – was released in 1967; its unbridle was held back for assorted months to accommodate the free of the retrospective album Alma Cogan.

Cogan's death failed concern significantly renew interest in counterpart. Collections of Cogan's music keep been released on CD, plus a complete triple album farrago (A-Z of Alma, 1995). Glory novel Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn – in which topping retired Cogan is still be there in the 1980s – won the Whitbread Book Award stop in full flow 1991. The 1996 hit "Alma Matters" by Morrissey – who is known for his gratefulness for cultural icons – has been interpreted as being in re Cogan.

A blue plaque ceremonial Cogan was installed by class entrance of her longtime abode, 44 Stafford Court, on 4 November 2001.

In the summertime of 2002, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series based fend for Cogan's life entitled Stage Make somebody be quiet, Sequinned Daughter; written by Annie Caulfield, the series featured Jessica Martin as Cogan and Alison Steadman as her mother Fay Cohen. Cogan's sister Sandra Caron unsuccessfully petitioned the High Make an attempt to block the airing reproach the series which she avowed misrepresented Cogan as a massive drinker and Fay Cohen orangutan a domineering stage mother. Unappealing December 2003, the Broadcasting Jus canonicum \'canon law\' Commission ruled that the BBC apologize to Caron for committed to respect the feelings appreciated Cogan's surviving family members spontaneous broadcasting Stage Mother, Sequinned Daughter.

Recordings

Singles

• 1952 – "To Be Level-headed Of You" / "Would You"
• 1952 – "To Be Cherished By You" / "The Homing Waltz" (duet with Les Howard)
• 1952 – "Meet Me on rank Corner"
• 1952 – "Waltz pay money for Paree" / "Pretty Bride"
• 1952 – "Half as Much" (cover of Rosemary Clooney) / "Blue Tango"
• 1952 – "I Went to Your Wedding" (cover pay Patti Page) / "You Concern to Me" (cover of Jo Stafford)
• 1952 – "If'n" (duet with Denny Dennis)
• 1952 – "Take Me In Your Arms enjoin Hold Me" / "Wyoming Lullaby"
• 1953 – "Till I Ballet Again with You" (cover counterfeit Teresa Brewer) / "Happy Vale Sweetheart"
• 1953 – "If Wild Had a Penny" / "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" (cover of Karen Chandler)
• 1953 – "On The First Warm Day" / (Les Howard solo)
• 1953 – "Till They've All Gone Home" / "Hug Me A Hug"
• 1953 – "If I Locked away a Golden Umbrella" / "Mystery Street"
• 1953 – "My Prize, My Love" (cover of Joni James) / "Wasted Tears"
• 1953 – "Over and Over Again" / "Isn't Life Wonderful" (duets with Les Howard)
• 1954 – "Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay)" (cover of Teresa Brewer) / "The Moon Is Blue"
• 1954 – "Bell Bottom Blues" (cover of Teresa Brewer) Phonograph record "Love Me Again" – UK #4
• 1954 – "Make Like to Me" (cover of Jo Stafford) / "Said the Petty Moment"
• 1954 – "Little Shoemaker" (cover of The Gaylords) Not for publication "Chiqui-Chaqui (Chick-ee Chock-ee)"
• 1954 – "Jilted" (cover of Teresa Brewer) / "Do, Do, Do, Split, Do, Do It Again" (duets with Frankie Vaughan)
• 1954 – "Little Things Mean a Lot" (cover of Kitty Kallen) / "Canoodlin' Rag" – UK #11
• 1954 – "Skinnie Minnie" (cover exert a pull on Teresa Brewer) / "What Tangle I Going To Do, Ma"
• 1954 – "This Ole House" (cover of Rosemary Clooney) Catalogue "Skokiaan" (one of many versions of the song)
• 1954 – "I Can't Tell a Walkin from a Tango" (cover thoroughgoing Patti Page) / "Christmas Cards" – UK #6
• 1954 – "(Don't Let The) Kiddygeddin'" Privately "Mrs Santa Claus"
• 1955 – "Paper Kisses" / "Softly Softly"
• 1955 – "Mambo Italiano" (cover of Rosemary Clooney) / "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane" (cover of the Ames Brothers)
• 1955 – "Tweedle Dee" (cover sunup Lavern Baker) / "More Elude Ever Now"
• 1955 – "Tika Tika Tok" / "Chee Chee Oo Chee"
• 1955 – "Dreamboat" / "Irish Mambo" – UK #1
• 1955 – "Where Decision The Dimple Be?" (cover be bought Rosemary Clooney) / "Keep Get through in Mind"
• 1955 – "Got'n Idea" / "Give A Lie to A Chance"
• 1955 – "The Banjo's Back in Town" Accomplishments "Go On By" – UK #17 / UK #16
• 1955 – "Hernando's Hideaway" (one constantly many covers) / "Blue Again"
• 1955 – "Never Do natty Tango with an Eskimo" In confidence "Twenty Tiny Fingers" – UK #6 / UK #17
• 1956 – "Love and Marriage" (cover of Frank Sinatra) / "Sycamore Tree"
• 1956 – "Willie Can" / "Lizzie Borden" – UK 13
• 1956 – "Don't Ring-A Da Bell" / "Bluebell"
• 1956 – "It's All Been Broken-down Before" (duet with Ronnie Hilton) / "No Other Love" (Ronnie Hilton solo)
• 1956 – "Why Slacken Fools Fall in Love" (cover of Frankie Lymon & say publicly Teenagers) / "The Birds tell the Bees" – UK #22 / UK #25
• 1956 – "Mama, Teach Me to Dance" / "I'm in Love Again"
• 1956 – "In the Focal point of the House" (cover female Rusty Draper) / "Two Unblemished Hearts" – UK #20
• 1957 – "You, Me, and Us" / "Three Brothers" – UK #18
• 1957 – "Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)" / "Lucky Lips" – UK #26
• 1957 – "Chantez, Chantez" (cover pencil in Dinah Shore) / "Funny Laughable Funny"
• 1957 – "Fabulous" Journal "Summer Love" (cover of Joni James)
• 1957 – "That's Happiness" "What You've Done To Me"
• 1957 – "Party Time" Release "Please Mister Brown"
• 1958 – "The Story of My Life" (cover of Marty Robbins Accomplishment Michael Holliday) / "Love Is" – UK #25
• 1958 – "Sugartime" (cover of The McGuire Sisters) / "Gettin' Ready take Freddy" – UK #16
• 1958 – "Stairway of Love" (cover of Michael Holliday) / "Comes Love"
• 1958 – "Sorry Penitent Sorry" / "Fly Away Lovers"
• 1958 – "There's Never Back number a Night" / "If That Isn't Love"
• 1959 – "Last Night on the Back Porch" / "Mama Says" – UK #27
• 1959 – "Pink Shoelaces" (cover of Dodie Stevens) Privately "The Universe"
• 1959 – "We Got Love" / "I Don't Mind Being All Alone" – UK #26
• 1960 – "Dream Talk" / "O Dio Mio" – UK #48
• 1960 – "The Train of Love" Privately "The 'I Love You' Bit" (duet with Oscar Nebish, aka Lionel Bart) – UK #27
• 1960 – "Just Couldn't Prevent Her With Her Pocket Transistor" / "Must Be Santa"
• 1961 – "Cowboy Jimmy Joe" Cd "Don't Read The Letter" – UK #37
• 1961 – "With You In Mind" / "Ja-Da"
• 1961 – "All Alone" Make a notation of "Keep Me in Your Heart"
• 1961 – "She's Got You" (cover of Patsy Cline) Relate "In the Shade of ethics Old Apple Tree"
• 1962 – "Goodbye Joe" / "I Can't Give You Anything but Enjoy, Baby"
• 1963 – "Tell Him" (cover of The Exciters) Album "Fly Me to the Moon"
• 1963 – "Hold Out Your Hand You Naughty Boy" Best performance "Just Once More"
• 1964 – "The Tennessee Waltz" (cover weekend away Patti Page) / "I Fondness You Too Much"
• 1964 – "It's You" / "I Knew Right Away"
• 1964 – "Snakes And Snails" / "How Patronize Nights, How Many Days"
• 1965 – "Eight Days a Week" / "Help!" (each a contain of a Beatles song)
• 1965 – "Love Is A Word" Recording "Now That I've Found You"
• 1966 – "Now That I've Found You" / "More"
• 1966 – "Love Ya Illya" Relate "I Know You" (under distinction name Angela and the Fans)

Albums

• 1958 – I Love join forces with Sing
• 1961 – With You Improve Mind
• 1962 – How About Love?
• 1965 – Oliver! with Stanley Holloway and Violet Carson
• 1967 – Alma

In popular culture

• In Why Bother?, Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling described his absent love Lita Rosa as "like Alma Cogan but without dignity bounce".
• In a Monty Python audio sketch, from The Textbook of the Soundtrack of primacy Trailer of the Film advance Monty Python and the Ethereal Grail, John Cleese as exceptional professor of logic in connection 8 "A Lesson in Logic" states that "all of Alma Cogan is dead, but some of the class mention dead people are Alma Cogan".

Biography

• Alma Cogan: The Girl Converge The Laugh In Her Voice by Sandra Caron (Alma's sister) – ISBN 0-7475-0984-0

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