Alma Cogan

Genres:	Easy Listening • Pop / Rock • Vocals
Descriptive "tags":	female vocalists • oldies • 60s • pop • 60s girls • jazz • alma cogan
Decades Active:	1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	BBC Music • IMDb • Wikipedia

Biography

19 May 1932, London, England, d. 26 October 1966, London, England. After appearing in the stage shows Sauce Tartare and High Button Shoes, Cogan was spotted by A&R representative Wally Ridley and signed to HMV Records. Although she began her career as a balladeer, her breakthrough came with the novelty hit ‘Bell Bottom Blues’, which reached the Top 5 in the UK in 1954. A cover version of Kitty Kallen’s ‘Little Things Mean A Lot’ followed quickly and during that same year Cogan appeared with Frankie Vaughan on a couple of unsuccessful singles. Her lone UK number 1 occurred in the spring of 1955 with ‘Dreamboat’ and the following Christmas she was back with the novelty ‘Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo’. A duet with Ronnie Hilton appeared on the b-side of his chart-topper ‘No Other Love’, and throughout this period Cogan earnestly covered a string of US hits including Jewel Akens’ ‘The Birds And...

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