Given the first name Alma because her mother was a fan of film star Alma Taylor, Alma Cogan first started singing seriously whilst still an art student, auditioning for Ted Heath but finding something of a benefactor in HMV Records' Walter Ridley. She made her professional debut singing at the Cumberland Hotel and made her first record soon after, but it was not until 'Bell Bottom Blues', a cover of Teresa Brewer's US hit that Alma first made the charts.
Alma would go on to become one of the top female singers from the mid 1950s onwards, topping the charts with 'Dreamboat' in 1955. She also made a sizeable name for herself as a songwriter, usually under the pseudonym of Al Western, and also recorded a series of duets with Frankie Vaughan and Ronnie Hilton.
At the time of her death from cancer in 1966 Alma was working on an album with Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham; following her untimely death these were scrapped.
1. Bell Bottom Blues
2. Little Things Mean A Lot
3. I Can’t Tell A Waltz From A Tango
4. Dreamboat
5. Banjo’s Back In Town
6. Go On By
7. Twenty Tiny Fingers
8. Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo
9. Half As Much
10. Blue Tango
11. This Ole House
12. Where Will The Dimple Be?
13. Softly Softly
14. The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane
15. If'n
16. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
17. Make Love To Me
18. I Went To Your Wedding
19. Jilted
20. Meet Me On The Corner
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