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Alma Cogan discography
Studio albums7
EPs5
Compilation albums20
Singles78

This is the discography of English singer Alma Cogan.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details
I Love to Sing
With You in Mind
  • Released: June 1961
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
Oliver!
  • Released: January 1962
  • Label: His Master's Voice
  • Formats: LP
  • London studio cast recording from the musical of the same name
  • Cogan sings on four tracks
How About Love!
  • Released: December 1962
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
Alma Cogan
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
  • Sweden-only release
Alma
  • Released: September 1967
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
'Julie' the Musical
  • Released: 21 June 2010
  • Label: Stage Door
  • Formats: CD
  • Limited release of previously unreleased concept album from 1965
  • Cogan sings on nine tracks

Compilation albums

Title Album details
The Girl with the Laugh in Her Voice
The Alma Cogan Collection
  • Released: April 1977
  • Label: One-Up
  • Formats: LP
Second Collection
  • Released: November 1978
  • Label: One-Up
  • Formats: LP
The Very Best of Alma Cogan
  • Released: February 1984
  • Label: Music for Pleasure
  • Formats: LP, MC
A Celebration
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 2xLP
The Almanac
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Music for Pleasure
  • Formats: 2xCD, 2xLP
The Best of the EMI Years
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD, MC
The A–Z of Alma
  • Released: October 1994
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 3xCD
EMI Presents the Magic of Alma Cogan
  • Released: 19 May 1997
  • Label: EMI/Music for Pleasure
  • Formats: CD, MC
The Girl with the Laugh in Her Voice
  • Released: 5 November 2001
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 4xCD
The Ultimate Alma Cogan
  • Released: July 2002
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries – 25 Classic Tracks
  • Released: 30 May 2005
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
Celebration – The Ultimate Collection
  • Released: 1 May 2006
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 3xCD
The Essential Collection
  • Released: 10 September 2007
  • Label: Avid Entertainment
  • Formats: 2xCD
Bell Bottoms, Dreamboats, Tangos & Eskimos
  • Released: 29 September 2008
  • Label: Acrobat Music
  • Formats: 4xCD
Dreamboat Her 31 Finest: 1953–1956
  • Released: 27 October 2008
  • Label: Retrospective
  • Formats: CD
He Just Couldn't Resist Her – The Very Best of Alma Cogan
  • Released: 11 March 2016
  • Label: Jasmine
  • Formats: CD
The Essential Recordings
  • Released: 26 May 2017
  • Label: Primo
  • Formats: 2xCD
Two Classic Albums Plus Singles 1952–1962
  • Released: 20 January 2017
  • Label: Real Gone Music
  • Formats: 4xCD
The Very Best of Alma Cogan
  • Released: 23 October 2020
  • Label: One Day Music
  • Formats: 2xCD

EPs

Title Details
"The Girl with a Laugh in Her Voice"
  • Released: September 1955
  • Label: His Master's Voice
"The Girl with a Laugh in Her Voice" (No. 2)
  • Released: 1955
  • Label: His Master's Voice
"The Girl with a Laugh in Her Voice" (No. 3)
  • Released: June 1956
  • Label: His Master's Voice
The Hits from My Fair Lady
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: His Master's Voice
  • Split EP with Ronnie Hilton
She Loves to Sing
  • Released: March 1959
  • Label: His Master's Voice

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions
UK
AUS
FIN
GER
SWE

"To Be Worthy of You"
b/w "Would You"
1952
"The Homing Waltz" (with Larry Day)
b/w "To Be Loved by You"
"Waltz of Paree"
b/w "Pretty Bride"
"Blue Tango"
b/w "Half as Much"
"I Went to Your Wedding"
b/w "You Belong to Me"
"Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me"
b/w "Wyoming Lullaby"
"Till I Waltz Again with You"
b/w ""Happy Valley Sweetheart"
1953
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me"
b/w ""If I Had a Penny
"On the First Warm Day" (with Les Howard)
b/w "The Windsor Waltz" (by Les Howard)
"Till They've All Gone Home"
b/w "Hug Me a Hug (Kiss Me a Kiss)" (with Les Howard)
"If I Had a Golden Umbrella"
b/w "Mystery St."
"My Love, My Love"
b/w "Wasted Tears"
"Over and Over Again" (both sides with Les Howard)
b/w "Isn't Life Wonderful"
"Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay)"
b/w "The Moon Is Blue"
"Bell Bottom Blues"
b/w "Love Me Again"
1954 4
"Make Love to Me"
b/w "Said the Little Moment"
"Little Shoemaker"
b/w "Chiqui-Chaqui (Chick-ee Chock-ee)"
"Jilted" (both sides with Frankie Vaughan)
b/w "Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, Do It Again"
"Little Things Mean a Lot"
b/w "Canoodlin' Rag"
11
"Skinnie Minnie (Fish Tail)"
b/w "What Am I Going to Do Ma (The Doo-Ma Song)"
"This Ole House"
b/w "Skokiaan"
"I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango"
b/w "Christmas Cards"
6
"(Don't Let The) Kiddygeddin"
b/w "Mrs. Santa Claus"
"Paper Kisses"
b/w "Softly, Softly"
1955
"Mambo Italiano"
b/w "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane"
"Tweedlee-Dee"
b/w "More Than Ever Now"
"Tika Tika Tok"
b/w "Chee-Chee-Oo-Chee (Sang the Little Bird)"
"Dreamboat"
b/w "(The Diddle-Ee-I) Irish Mambo"
1
"Where Will the Dimple Be"
b/w "Keep Me in Mind"
"Got'n Idea"
b/w "Give a Fool a Chance"
"The Banjo's Back in Town"
b/w "Go on By"
17
16
"Hernando's Hideaway"
b/w "Blue Again"
"Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo"
b/w "Twenty Tiny Fingers"
6
17
"Love and Marriage"
b/w "Sycamore Tree"
1956
"Willie Can"
b/w "Lizzie Borden"
13
"Don't Ring-A Da Bell"
b/w "Bluebell"
"No Other Love" (by Ronnie Hilton)
b/w "It's All Been Done Before" (with Ronnie Hilton)
"Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
b/w "The Birds and the Bees"
22
25
"Mama Teach Me to Dance"
b/w "I'm in Love Again"
"In the Middle of the House"
b/w "Two Innocent Hearts"
20
"Pickin' a Chicken" (US-only release)
b/w "Willie Can"
"You, Me and Us"
b/w "Three Brothers"
1957 18
"Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)"
b/w "Lucky Lips"
26
"Chantez, Chantez"
b/w "Funny, Funny, Funny"
"Fabulous"
b/w "Summer Love"
"That's Happiness"
b/w "What You've Done to Me"
"Party Time"
b/w "Please Mister Brown (Mister Jones, Mister Smith)"
"The Story of My Life"
b/w "Love Is"
1958 25
"Sugartime"
b/w "Gettin' Ready for Freddy"
16
"Stairway of Love"
b/w "Comes Love"
"Sorry, Sorry, Sorry"
b/w "Fly Away Lovers"
"There's Never Been a Night"
b/w "If This Isn't Love"
"Mama Says"
b/w "Last Night on the Back Porch"
1959

27

"Pink Shoe Laces"
b/w "The Universe"
"We Got Love"
b/w "I Don't Mind Being All Alone"
26
"Dream Talk"
b/w "O Dio Mio"
1960 48
"The Train of Love"
b/w "The "I Love You" Bit" (with Oscar Nebbish, aka Lionel Bart)
27
"Must Be Santa"
b/w "Just Couldn't Resist Her With Her Pocket Transistor"
"Cowboy Jimmy Joe"
b/w "Don't Read the Letter"
1961 37
"With You in Mind"
b/w "Ja-Da"
"All Alone"
b/w "Keep Me in Your Heart"
97
"She's Got You"
b/w "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"
1962
"Goodbye Joe"
b/w "I Can't Give You Anything but Love"
"Tell Him"
b/w "Fly Me to the Moon"
1963 78 10
"Just Once More"
b/w "Hold Your Hand Out You Naughty Boy"
"Tennessee Waltz"
b/w "I Love You Too Much"
1964 32 1
"Tennessee-Waltz" (German-language version)
b/w "Mein schönster Traum (Que reste-t-il de nos amours)"
10
"It's You"
b/w "I Knew Right Away"
"The Birds and the Bees" (Scandinavia-only release)
b/w "Quando la luna"
1965 32 1
"Hill-Billy-Boy (Home on the Range)" (Germany-only release)
b/w "Ich liebe die Sonne (We'll Sing in the Sunshine)"
1965 39
"Ba-Ba-Song (Whiffenpoof-Song)" (Germany-only release)
b/w "Ruf mich an"
"Snakes and Snails"
b/w "How Many Nights, How Many Days"
"So fängt es immer an (A Lovers Concerto)" (Germany-only release)
b/w "Nun bist du mein Mann (Now That I Found You)"
"Eight Days a Week"
b/w "Help!"
76
"Love Ya Illya" (under the name Angela and the Fans)
b/w "I Know You"
1966
"Laß nicht soviel Zeit vergeh'n" (Germany-only release)
b/w "An jedem Tag ist Zeit (There Is a Time and Place)"
"Hello Baby" (Sweden-only release)
b/w "There's a Time"
"Now That I've Found You"
b/w "More"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. This is a list of EPs released in the UK. Various other EPs were released elsewhere.

References

  1. "ALMA COGAN | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  2. Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book 1940–1969. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.
  3. "Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit COB - COS". Sisältää hitin. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  4. "Suche - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  5. "Alma Cogan - Se alla låtar och listplaceringar". NostalgiListan (in Swedish). Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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