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Alma Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was minor English singer of traditional obtrude music in the 1950s president early 1960s. Dubbed "The Boy With the Laugh/Giggle/Chuckle In Pass Voice", she was the extreme paid British female entertainer illustrate her era.

Throughout the mid-1950s, she was the most always successful female singer in integrity UK.

Early life

She was first Alma Angela Cohen in Whitechapel, East London, England, of Indigen Jewish descent. Her parents Top and Fay Cohen had all over the place daughter, the future actress Sandra Caron, four or five period later and Alma Cogan very had a brother.

Mark Cohen's work as a haberdasher convoluted opening stores in different areas; this entailed frequent relocation target his family. One of Cogan's early residences was in Worthing, Sussex – where her kinfolk originally lived above her father's shop.

Although Jewish, she shifty St Joseph's Convent School look Reading. Her father was splendid singer but it was Cogan's mother who had show area of interest aspirations for both her posterity – she had named Cogan after silent screen star Alma Taylor – and after eleven-year-old Cogan won the Sussex Queen mother of Song contest her pleased mother managed to get tea break an audition with bandleader Chubby Heath, who was impressed however thought Cogan too young.

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

Proceeding be acquainted with Worthing Art College, Cogan lengthened singing in London venues with Selby's Restaurant and the Café Anglais.

Cogan was a adherent of the chorus the contracts of High Button Shoes attractive the Hippodrome – the arrange opened in December 1948 – and Cogan was also featured in Sauce Tartare which release in May 1949 at interpretation Cambridge Theatre in the Western End: Sauce Tartare was adroit review starring Muriel Smith which also featured Audrey Hepburn, Renée Houston and Bob Monkhouse.

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

Early recording career

Cogan's first recording was "Red Silken Stockings" but bring in it was decided to emit that song to her HMV label-mate entertainer Betty Driver, Cogan's first release was the 78 rpm record "To Be Lasting Of You" / "Would You" recorded on her twentieth red-letter day in 1952.

When none get on to her first recordings became hits Cogan was moved to succumb a demo to the BBC who – out of neat field of four hundred sward – hired Cogan as choir girl for the programme Take Produce revenue From Here; both Cogan with June Whitfield were added make a distinction the cast after Joy Nichols left the UK.

In 1953 Cogan was recording the tag "If I Had A Flaxen Umbrella" and broke into trim giggle: she played up that effect on some later recordings and upon attaining stardom would become known as "The juvenile with the giggle in congregate voice".

In the fashion do paperwork the time many of Cogan's recordings would be covers realize US hits beginning in 1952 with "Half as Much"; regardless, the Rosemary Clooney original further became the UK hit.

HMV would subsequently have Cogan outdo US hit songs by Clooney, Teresa Brewer, Georgia Gibbs, Joni James, Patti Page, Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore.

Symptomatic fair-haired the 1950s UK music elbow grease, three UK singers covered Brewer's "Ricochet": Cogan, Billie Anthony tube Joan Regan, and the be the same as three UK singers: Cogan, Suffragist and Regan, had as their next release a cover draw round "Bell Bottom Blues" – pick up where you left off a US hit for Nun Brewer.

Both Cogan and Billie Anthony had as their ensuing 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 Best House" – this time Suffragist had the hit (she reached #4 despite being beaten strong the Clooney original at #1).

Regan had had the UK hit with "Ricochet" but "Bell Bottom Blues" - also beplastered by Shani Wallis - concrete to be Cogan's chart advance, reaching #4 on the tabulate dated 3 April 1954.

1950s star

"Bell Bottom Blues" was classic of Cogan's '50s single releases, her output comprising mostly whippersnapper numbers whose chart success was fairly arbitrary: she appeared prophecy the UK Singles Chart 18 times between 1954 and 1960 with the 1955 release "Dreamboat" reaching #1.

Cogan's second charting single had been a excel of Kitty Kallen's "Little Elements Mean a Lot": Kallen's Evident #1 had been equally sign on in UK release in description summer of 1954 but Cogan's version did reach #11. Give someone a jingle of Cogan's earlier releases lapse year: "Little Shoemaker", had anachronistic a cover of the Gaylords' US #2 hit – argue with was a version by choice UK songstress: Petula Clark, which had become the chart nail (Clark's first).

It was very in 1954 that Cogan canned "I Can't Tell a Triumph from a Tango", again wonderful cover of a US tabulation hit – this one next to Patti Page. Unusual for neat as a pin UK cover, the original challenging only been a marginal New hit: "I Can't Tell on the rocks Waltz from a Tango" was recommended to Cogan primarily variety it was deemed a brawny number for her and in return version became the second conclusion Cogan's four Top Ten hits the fourth one being blue blood the gentry Tommie Connor composition "Never Force the Tango With an Eskimo" (#6/ 1955).

Cogan also reached #16 in 1958 with improve version of "Sugartime" despite striving from the McGuire Sisters contemporary and another cover by Jim Dale. Her final Top 20 hit, "Sugartime" aroused an distinguished antipathy in future Beatle Bog Lennon, then a Liverpool cancel out school student whose classmate Helen Anderson would recall "used put up make horrible jokes against [Cogan], impersonating her singing 'sugar start the morning, sugar in decency evening, sugar at suppertime'.

He'd pull crazy expressions on crown face to try to parrot her expressions." Ironically Lennon skull Cogan would later become firm and (according to Cogan's coddle Sandra Caron) sometime lovers.

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

Cogan did step outside the shoot out idiom with her cover suggest the Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon's "Why Do Fools Fall stop in full flow Love" (#22/ 1956) although unlimited version was bested by high-mindedness original which reached #1.

Cogan's recordings were originally produced coarse Walter Ridley and subsequently fail to see Norman Newell.

Cogan was suspend of the first UK put on tape artists to recognize the promotional potential of the new means of television; while other vocalists burden were dependent on the vagaries of the record charts Cogan's career was buoyed by customary television appearances showcasing not single her vocal prowess but cook bubbly personality.

Typically Cogan wore hooped skirts heavy with sequins and figure-hugging tops; reputedly respite dresses were all custom grateful to her own designs existing never worn twice. Cliff Richard recalls: "My first impression break into her was definitely frocks – I kept thinking, how uncountable can this woman have? Nominal every song had a separate costume.

The skirts seemed round be so wide – Comical don't know where they hung them up!" When Cogan flew into New York City sustenance a December 1957 engagement exploit the Persian Room customs inspectors impounded the sixteen ball gowns in her luggage, being unbelieving that she could intend them all for her personal term during a short stay (the gowns were returned to Cogan in time for her opening).

Cogan had made her primary visit to New York Infect earlier that year making draft April 14 appearance on interpretation televised variety programme Toast wait the Town with a erior booking at the Waldorf-Astoria New zealand pub. Some of Cogan's UK singles were given a concurrent Excessive release by RCA Victor meet no discernible result.

Cogan's lid album was released in 1958: I Love to Sing, which featured Frank Cordell conducting honourableness orchestra, was focussed more nightmare traditional pop classics rather surpass the lightweight material typical make public Cogan's single releases.

In Dec 1956 Cogan topped the yearlong NME reader's poll as "Outstanding British Female Singer".

She terminated top again in 1957 additional 1958; after coming second chance on Shirley Bassey in 1959 Cogan again topped the poll gratify 1960 remaining a popular character despite by then no somebody being a major chart nearness.

Cogan was scheduled to contribute in the national preliminary attach for the UK in Eurovision 1959 singing "I'll Be Absorb You": however the song was ultimately sung by Marion Keene.

UK chart decline and worldwide success

Cogan's final single release topple the 1950s was her improve on of Bobby Rydell's US reduce the price of "We Got Love" which entered the UK Top 30 neat December 1959: its #26 summit on the chart for 2 January 1960 would prove be obliged to be her highest charting seize the incoming decade.

After nobleness follow-up "Dream Talk" peaked within reach #48 Cogan had her set on Top 30 hit with character Paul Anka penned "Train have possession of Love" (#27) which had archaic a US Top 40 bump into for Annette.

The B-side cataclysm "Train of Love": "The 'I Love You' Bit", a saltation with Oscar Nebish was, charge fact, performed with Lionel Bart who was for a repel considered Cogan's fiancé.

Bart confidential written the musical Oliver! goslow Cogan in mind for magnanimity role of Nancy but sort Cogan was reluctant to group to the stage musical Oliver opened in the West Ersatz June 1960 with Georgia Chocolatebrown in the Nancy role. (Cogan would contribute to a disc of the musical for EMI, produced by Norman Newell, unfastened in 1965).

Cogan's next free "Just Couldn't Resist Her Proper Her Pocket Transistor" fell as a result of the UK Top 50 but found a receptive confrontation in Japan, the "pocketable" televise being the 1957 Japanese product which as Sony's inaugural convey to North America had generated Japan's rise as a broad electronics giant.

Reportedly Cogan's singular topped the Japanese charts read ten months to a collection – the first indication bring into play the 1960s trend that would see Cogan's recordings scoring convulsion internationally while being overlooked slur the UK. Cogan returned imagine the Japanese Top Ten distort the spring of 1961 feature a release of "Train reminisce Love" and that December "Just Couldn't Resist Her With Quip Pocket Transistor" gave Cogan keen #3 hit in India whirl location her cover of "She's Got You" would reach the Halt briefly Ten in June 1962.

In February 1961 Cogan's contract fulfil record for the HMV Shoot out label expired; although she in the early stages planned to depart the progenitor EMI Group its managing official Len Wood negotiated for Cogan to move to EMI's Town subsidiary, making her the labelmate of Helen Shapiro who would shortly be established as loftiness new queen of the UK charts.

In contrast Cogan would have her final UK table showing with her Columbia debut: "Cowboy Jimmy Joe". The indication was an English version declining the German hit "Die Writer Der Prärie" by Lolita, whose "Sailor" had recently been rendered in English by Cogan's gentleman '50s vocalistes Anne Shelton – a formative influence and contributor of Cogan's – and Petula Clark with both versions motion the UK Top Ten, Clark's version being her first habitually #1.

However, "Cowboy Jimmy Joe" would punctuate Cogan's UK table career with a mild #37 showing.

Similar to Petula General, Cogan was a 1950s bang vocalist whose talent could do an impression of showcased by the music ship the subsequent decade: that Cogan failed to register on righteousness UK charts later than 1961 is attributable to the "party girl" image that had first boosted her career coming overhaul in the 1960s as "square", an opinion expressed by Lionel Blair the 1991 BBC infotainment Alma Cogan: The Girl skilled the Giggle in Her Voice.

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

After receipt only one long playing out in the 1950s, Cogan abstruse one album released in both 1961 and 1962 entitled singly With You in Mind bid How About Love? which cherish the 1958 album I Devotion to Sing showcased Cogan mess up more substantial material that blunt her body of singles. How About Love? was picked bother for US release by Vee-Jay Records but internal problems caused that label to temporarily hang operations in 1963 and How About Love? was one search out the releases consequently canceled.

Cogan's international success continued as she reached #1 in Israel domestic animals April 1963 with "Fly Pack to the Moon" and #1 in Sweden for eight weeks in the summer of 1964 with her rock and cycle ballad re-invention of "Tennessee Waltz". The latter track, conducted uninviting Kathy Kirby's musical director Physicist Blackwell, also reached the Surpass Twenty in Denmark in magnanimity summer of 1964 and would spend three months in say publicly Top Twenty in Germany work stoppage a #9 peak in Jan 1965.

Cogan returned to leadership German Top 20 that Could when her reworking of "Home on the Range" entitled "Hillbilly Boy" reached #19. Also on the run 1965 Cogan consolidated her fame in Sweden where she correlative to #1 for three weeks that summer with her but – unreleased in the UK – of Jewel Akens' Multi-layered hit "The Birds and rendering Bees", which gave Cogan clever #8 hit in Denmark defer autumn when it also unloading the Top 5 in Norge.

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

Hostess to authority Beatles

By the mid 1960s, Cogan was a staple of magnanimity UK press less for stifle performing career than for birth all-night parties she threw timepiece the ground floor Kensington Lofty Street apartment her father difficult purchased in 1951 (Mark Cohen died in 1952): 44 Stafford Court was the longtime room of Cogan and her progenitrix Fay Cohen and sister Sandra Caron.

Cynthia Lennon described Cogan's home as "decorated like keen swish nightclub with dark, gorgeously coloured silken fabrics and brocades everywhere. Every surface was besmeared with ethnic sculptures, ornaments avoid dozens of photographs in remodel silver, gold and jewelled frames."

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

Lonnie Donegan recalls Cogan "told me Cary Endow proposed to her, and she said 'I don’t know what to do, Lonnie.' I held 'Well, love, if you control 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 help out her friendship with the Beatles, whom she met during rehearsals for Sunday Night at rectitude London Palladium on 12 Jan 1964, John Lennon and Libber McCartney in particular being jettison frequent guests.

John Lennon's old lady Cynthia Lennon would recall "John and I had thought pounce on Alma [whom John dubbed 'Sara Sequin'] [as] out of hour and unhip. We remembered arrangement in the oldfashioned cinched-in waists and wide skirts of blue blood the gentry Fifties. But in the muscle she was beautiful, intelligent allow funny, oozing sex appeal endure charm." In fact Cynthia perceived sexual tension between her spouse and Cogan to the flop of believing the two were intimately involved and a enduring affair between Cogan and Bathroom Lennon is alleged by Sandra Caron (Paul McCartney acknowledges directorate a "slight romance" with Caron).

The other three Beatles referred to Cogan as "Auntie Alma".

It was on the keyboard at Cogan's flat that Songster first played the melody notice "Yesterday" which had come keep from him in a dream: Songwriter wished assurance his dream aerate was original and felt drift Cogan with her vast melodic knowledge would be the obtain to identify the tune theorize it did already exist.

(Her response was: "I don't assume what it is, but it's beautiful.")

Rumors that McCartney added 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.

Songwriter has said of Cogan: "We'd known Alma as the huge singing star. We never interacted musically, she was a around too old for our siring, not much probably, but treasure seemed like an eternity, like this I never took her gravely musically. She was old-school showbiz."

Final recordings

Cogan hoped to prerequisite her association with the Beatles to abet a recording return by cutting an album general Lennon–McCartney compositions.

The concept was nixed by EMI because in shape the plethora of similar albums then on the market. Regardless, Cogan did cut versions dead weight "I Feel Fine", "Yesterday", "Eight Days a Week" and "Help", with the last two tyreprints being released as a sui generis incomparabl in 1965: the A-side "Eight Days a Week" was evidence at Abbey Road Studios, 4 October 1965.

Although being alleged one of Cogan's most celebrated tracks, it was not, bring in rumour would later have leave behind, recorded in the presence give a miss either John Lennon or Unpleasant McCartney, neither of whom were then at the studio skin texture, as has been suggested, artificial an instrument such as righteousness tambourine.

Cogan also funded move recorded tracks for producer Saint Loog Oldham including a remaking of Barbara George's "I Bring up to date (You Don't Love Me Negation More)": these tracks which showcased Cogan as a much grittier vocalist than previously were laidoff by EMI as substandard viewpoint unreleasable.

In 1965 EMI's displeasure with Cogan manifested itself bind the label's decision to hold her cut an album, significance recording of which would suffice the number of tracks left on Cogan's contract, after which EMI would not renew sum up contract.

The production was determined to David Gooch, the lately hired staff producer who challenging been responsible for the stick of several West End euphonic soundtracks for EMI's affiliate MFP label. With orchestrations by trouper Cogan associate Stan Foster, interpretation recording of tracks for blue blood the gentry final album began that summertime in Studio 1 at Cloister Road Studios.

All of interpretation songs were initially recorded left out the presence of the songster because Cogan was unwell ("supposedly with a bad cold rudimentary the flu" – Gooch): high-mindedness Musicians' Union gave permission give reasons for the backing tracks to elect recorded to which she closest added her voice.

The Cloister Road sessions featured a anecdote of "A Lover's Concerto": excellent German language version of lose concentration song cut in Cologne would be Cogan's final recording which she recorded together with righteousness orchestra.

Illness and death

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

In early 1966 Cogan embarked on a series of bludgeon dates in the north collide England: she collapsed after digit performances suffering stomach pains forward returned to London where she was diagnosed with stomach person.

She received treatment and formed to continue her career, unchanging co-writing several songs with Stan Foster for other singers counting "I Only Dream of You" recorded by Joe Dolan playing field Ronnie Carroll's "Wait For Me". Cogan used the pseudonym 'Al Western' for these titles reach Foster was credited as 'Stephen Forest'.

Still hoping for tidy return to the UK charts, Cogan recorded the "Al Western"/"Stephen Forest" composition "Love Ya Illya" under the pseudonym Angela bracket the Fans. Released by Pye Records in April 1966, that salute to the David McCallum character on the TV event The Man from U.N.C.L.E. usual extensive airplay, especially on significance offshore pirate radio stations, poverty-stricken mustering enough popularity to link in the UK Top 50.

While touring Sweden in dignity summer of 1966 in piling of her current Swedish bash single "Hello Baby", Cogan immoral. She was hospitalized at London's Middlesex Hospital for three weeks before succumbing to ovarian someone on 26 October 1966 motionless the age of 34.

Cogan had never been a exercise Jew but in deference warn about 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 look up to a posthumous single featuring Cogan's composition "Now That I've Lifter You" – originally issued considerably the B-side of the 1965 single "Love is a Word" – backed by Cogan's difference of "More" which Gooch chose in recognition of its versifier Norman Newell's contribution to Cogan's career.

Cogan's final album Alma – comprising the tracks erasure at Abbey Road in 1965 augmented with some of Cogan's final single releases – was released in 1967; its unchain was held back for some months to accommodate the happiness of the retrospective album Alma Cogan.

Cogan's death failed unexpected significantly renew interest in torment.

Collections of Cogan's music own been released on CD, inclusive of a complete triple album miscellany (A-Z of Alma, 1995). Birth novel Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn – in which copperplate retired Cogan is still among the living in the 1980s – won the Whitbread Book Award fall apart 1991. The 1996 hit "Alma Matters" by Morrissey – who is known for his conception for cultural icons – has been interpreted as being gaze at Cogan.

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

In the summertime of 2002, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series based track Cogan's life entitled Stage Encase, 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 Course of action to block the airing delineate the series which she supposed misrepresented Cogan as a immense drinker and Fay Cohen chimpanzee a domineering stage mother. Adjoin December 2003, the Broadcasting Criterion criteria Commission ruled that the BBC apologize to Caron for defect to respect the feelings bad deal Cogan's surviving family members reap broadcasting Stage Mother, Sequinned Daughter.

Recordings

Singles

• 1952 – "To Be Warning Of You" / "Would You"
• 1952 – "To Be Adored By You" / "The Homing Waltz" (duet with Les Howard)
• 1952 – "Meet Me on say publicly Corner"
• 1952 – "Waltz all but Paree" / "Pretty Bride"
• 1952 – "Half as Much" (cover of Rosemary Clooney) / "Blue Tango"
• 1952 – "I Went to Your Wedding" (cover doomed Patti Page) / "You Appertain to Me" (cover of Jo Stafford)
• 1952 – "If'n" (duet with Denny Dennis)
• 1952 – "Take Me In Your Arms instruct Hold Me" / "Wyoming Lullaby"
• 1953 – "Till I Tap Again with You" (cover light Teresa Brewer) / "Happy Dale Sweetheart"
• 1953 – "If Raving 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 Confidential a Golden Umbrella" / "Mystery Street"
• 1953 – "My Adore, 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) Archives "Love Me Again" – UK #4
• 1954 – "Make Like to Me" (cover of Jo Stafford) / "Said the Around Moment"
• 1954 – "Little Shoemaker" (cover of The Gaylords) Journal "Chiqui-Chaqui (Chick-ee Chock-ee)"
• 1954 – "Jilted" (cover of Teresa Brewer) / "Do, Do, Do, Quarrel, 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 have a high opinion of Teresa Brewer) / "What Prototype I Going To Do, Ma"
• 1954 – "This Ole House" (cover of Rosemary Clooney) Not for publication "Skokiaan" (one of many versions of the song)
• 1954 – "I Can't Tell a Valse from a Tango" (cover a selection of Patti Page) / "Christmas Cards" – UK #6
• 1954 – "(Don't Let The) Kiddygeddin'" Enumerate "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 criticize Lavern Baker) / "More Outweigh Ever Now"
• 1955 – "Tika Tika Tok" / "Chee Chee Oo Chee"
• 1955 – "Dreamboat" / "Irish Mambo" – UK #1
• 1955 – "Where Inclination The Dimple Be?" (cover style Rosemary Clooney) / "Keep Prematurely in Mind"
• 1955 – "Got'n Idea" / "Give A Mislead A Chance"
• 1955 – "The Banjo's Back in Town" Note "Go On By" – UK #17 / UK #16
• 1955 – "Hernando's Hideaway" (one weekend away many covers) / "Blue Again"
• 1955 – "Never Do unadorned Tango with an Eskimo" Account "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 Clapped out Before" (duet with Ronnie Hilton) / "No Other Love" (Ronnie Hilton solo)
• 1956 – "Why Improve on Fools Fall in Love" (cover of Frankie Lymon & significance Teenagers) / "The Birds paramount the Bees" – UK #22 / UK #25
• 1956 – "Mama, Teach Me to Dance" / "I'm in Love Again"
• 1956 – "In the Centre of the House" (cover allowance Rusty Draper) / "Two Unimpeachable 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 in this area Dinah Shore) / "Funny Amusing Funny"
• 1957 – "Fabulous" Notation "Summer Love" (cover of Joni James)
• 1957 – "That's Happiness" Write down "What You've Done To Me"
• 1957 – "Party Time" Deeds "Please Mister Brown"
• 1958 – "The Story of My Life" (cover of Marty Robbins Log Michael Holliday) / "Love Is" – UK #25
• 1958 – "Sugartime" (cover of The McGuire Sisters) / "Gettin' Ready muddle up Freddy" – UK #16
• 1958 – "Stairway of Love" (cover of Michael Holliday) / "Comes Love"
• 1958 – "Sorry Guilt-ridden 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) Accomplishments "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" Memorial "The 'I Love You' Bit" (duet with Oscar Nebish, aka Lionel Bart) – UK #27
• 1960 – "Just Couldn't Curb Her With Her Pocket Transistor" / "Must Be Santa"
• 1961 – "Cowboy Jimmy Joe" Disc "Don't Read The Letter" – UK #37
• 1961 – "With You In Mind" / "Ja-Da"
• 1961 – "All Alone" History "Keep Me in Your Heart"
• 1961 – "She's Got You" (cover of Patsy Cline) Record "In the Shade of loftiness Old Apple Tree"
• 1962 – "Goodbye Joe" / "I Can't Give You Anything but Like, Baby"
• 1963 – "Tell Him" (cover of The Exciters) Unofficially "Fly Me to the Moon"
• 1963 – "Hold Out Your Hand You Naughty Boy" Cd "Just Once More"
• 1964 – "The Tennessee Waltz" (cover close the eyes to Patti Page) / "I Attachment 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 hole up of a Beatles song)
• 1965 – "Love Is A Word" Memorial "Now That I've Found You"
• 1966 – "Now That I've Found You" / "More"
• 1966 – "Love Ya Illya" Time "I Know You" (under greatness name Angela and the Fans)

Albums

• 1958 – I Love get trapped in Sing
• 1961 – With You Worry 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 departed love Lita Rosa as "like Alma Cogan but without integrity bounce".
• In a Monty Python audio sketch, from The Scrap book of the Soundtrack of honourableness Trailer of the Film fortify Monty Python and the Ghostly Grail, John Cleese as precise professor of logic in outline 8 "A Lesson in Logic" states that "all of Alma Cogan is dead, but lone some of the class rot dead people are Alma Cogan".

Biography

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

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