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The Girl With A Laugh In Her Voice

Alma Cogan

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Since her death from cancer in 1966, Alma Cogan's reputation has rested largely on the record-breaking string of hits she scored in the U.K. during the 1950s, and for the brief resurgence of pop credibility engendered by her friendship with the Beatles. She was the first person Paul McCartney played "Yesterday" to after he composed it, and her final album, the superlative Alma, featured three further Lennon/McCartney compositions, each rendered with spectacular style. That particular album was reissued in the late '90s, as part of EMI's centenary celebrations. The remainder of Cogan's catalog, however, lay either on old, deleted vinyl or scattered piecemeal across a sequence of well-intentioned, but scarcely representative, hits collections. The Girl With a Laugh in Her Voice rectifies that error, and many more. A handsomely packaged four-CD box set, the first three discs wrap up all four of Cogan's original albums in their entirety, together with the vast majority of her hit-single canon -- irresistible pieces of fluff like "I Can't Tell a Waltz From a Tango," "Twenty Tiny Fingers," and "Just Couldn't Resist Her With Her Pocket Transistor," alongside rich interpretations of "Tennessee Waltz," "Sugar Time," and "Why Do Fools Fall In Love." Novelties, standards, jazz, pop, or blues, Cogan could handle them all, and, if she did sing them all with a laugh in her voice, that only heightened the impact when she turned to the heartbreakers. The first three discs are essential; the fourth is simply magical. Aptly subtitled Hidden Gems, it collects 25 outtakes, foreign language cuts, and extracurricular oddities, her contributions to the stage versions of My Fair Lady and Oliver among them. Few have ever been on CD before, seven are previously unreleased in any form, and a handful -- had EMI only chosen to release them at the time -- might have sent Cogan's career soaring back to its original, dizzying heights. Three songs produced by Rolling Stones mastermind Andrew Loog Oldham in 1965 were shelved because they were too far removed from Cogan's usual style. In fact, they were just what her career was searching for -- one pounding pop rocker ("I Know"), one swinging ballad ("Love Is a Word") and one vast, symphonic epic. Drenched in Oldham's own take on the Phil Spector sound, "Now That I've Found You" draws out one of Cogan's most majestic performances ever, dwarfing the remake which she then cut for Alma, and dwarfing the efforts of virtually every contemporary singer you could mention. With a booklet packed with photographs and collector information, plus a beautiful essay by Cogan's sister, Sandra Caron, The Girl With a Laugh in Her Voice is an absolute triumph, a labor of love from the compilers, and precisely the monument which Cogan's memory has demanded for too long.

© Dave Thompson /TiVo

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Alma Cogan

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1
I Love to Sing
00:01:59

Carr, Composer - Connor, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Paul Missaki, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

2
Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
00:02:49

Ray Henderson, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Lewis Brown, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

3
They Can't Take That Away from Me
00:01:59

George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

4
Taking a Chance on Love
00:02:51

Vernon Duke, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - John Latouche, Composer - Ted Fetter, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

5
Ain't We Got Fun
00:02:59

Gus Kahn, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Richard Whiting, Composer - Raymond Egan, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

6
You Do Something to Me
00:02:31

Cole Porter, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

7
Today I Love Ev'rybody
00:02:28

Harold Arlen, Composer - Dorothy Fields, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

8
Cheek to Cheek
00:02:56

Irving Berlin, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

9
If This Isn't Love
00:02:16

E Y Harburg, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Burton Lane, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

10
As Time Goes By
00:02:32

Herman Hupfeld, Composer, Lyricist - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

11
Comes Love
00:01:58

CHARLES TOBIAS, Composer - Lew Brown, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - SAM STEPT, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

12
Blue Skies
00:02:57

Irving Berlin, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1958 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

13
With You in Mind
00:03:39

Ornadel, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - West, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

14
I Dream of You More Than You Dream I Do
00:03:07

Goetschius, Composer - Osser, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

15
Let's Fall in Love
00:02:22

Harold Arlen, Composer - Ted Koehler, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

16
In Other Words
00:03:49

Bart Howard, Writer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

17
My Heart Stood Still
00:02:24

Richard Rodgers, Composer - Lorenz Hart, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

18
But Beautiful
00:03:39

James Van Heusen, Composer - Johnny Burke, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

19
You'll Never Know
00:04:06

Harry Warren, Composer - Mack Gordon, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

20
All I Do Is Dream of You
00:02:35

ARTHUR FREED, Writer - NACIO HERB BROWN, Writer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

21
What Is There to Say
00:03:13

E Y Harburg, Composer - Vernon Duke, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

22
Don't Blame Me
00:04:05

Dorothy Fields, Composer - Jimmy McHugh, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

23
Falling in Love with Love
00:02:09

Richard Rodgers, Composer - Lorenz Hart, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

24
The More I See You
00:03:34

Harry Warren, Composer - Mack Gordon, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

25
When I Fall in Love
00:03:56

Victor Young, Composer - Edward Heyman, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1961 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

DISC 2

1
I Can't Give You Anything but Love
00:02:50

Dorothy Fields, Writer - Jimmy McHugh, Writer - Alma Cogan, Lead Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Osborne & His Orchestra, Vocals, PLG Unknown Participant - Tony Osborne & Orchestra, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

2
I've Never Been in Love Before
00:03:06

FRANK LOESSER, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

3
The Lady's in Love with You
00:02:37

FRANK LOESSER, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Burton Lane, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

4
I'm in the Mood for Love
00:03:18

Dorothy Fields, Composer - Jimmy McHugh, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

5
Somebody Loves Me
00:03:03

George Gershwin, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Ballard McDonald, Composer - Buddy De Sylva, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

6
Can't Help Falling in Love
00:02:51

GEORGE DAVID WEISS, Writer - Hugo Peretti, Writer - Luigi Creatore, Writer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

7
Hello Young Lovers
00:04:57

Richard Rodgers, Composer - Oscar Hammerstein II , Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

8
Our Love Affair
00:02:32

Freed, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Edens, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

9
Love Me as Though There Were No Tomorrow
00:02:25

Jimmy McHugh, Composer - Harold Adamson, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

10
Love Is Just Around the Corner
00:02:32

Lewis Gensler, Composer - Leo Robin, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

11
Let Me Love You
00:03:36

Howard, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

12
If Love Were All
00:03:49

Noel Coward, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

13
Love Walked In
00:02:54

George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

14
Let Her Go
00:01:58

Lou Stallman, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Ruth Allison, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

15
Trains and Boats and Planes
00:03:14

Burt Bacharach, Composer - Hal David, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

16
Ticket to Ride
00:03:15

John Lennon, Writer - Paul Mccartney, Writer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

17
I Get a Kick out of You
00:03:52

Cole Porter, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

18
There's a Time and Place
00:02:53

Al Western, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Stephen Forest, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

19
Eight Days a Week
00:03:56

John Lennon, Writer - Paul Mccartney, Writer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

20
Yesterday
00:03:13

John Lennon, Writer - Paul Mccartney, Writer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

21
I Feel Fine
00:02:43

John Lennon, Writer - Paul Mccartney, Writer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

22
Jolly Good Company
00:02:12

Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Raymond Wallace, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

23
More
00:02:31

Norman Newell, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - Marcello Ciorciolini, Composer - Riz Ortolani, Composer - Nino Oliviero, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

24
Don't You Know Yockomo
00:03:09

Huey Smith, Composer - Alma Cogan, MainArtist - John Vincent, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

25
Now That I've Found You
00:03:44

Alma Cogan, Composer, MainArtist - Stan Foster, Composer

© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

Album review

Since her death from cancer in 1966, Alma Cogan's reputation has rested largely on the record-breaking string of hits she scored in the U.K. during the 1950s, and for the brief resurgence of pop credibility engendered by her friendship with the Beatles. She was the first person Paul McCartney played "Yesterday" to after he composed it, and her final album, the superlative Alma, featured three further Lennon/McCartney compositions, each rendered with spectacular style. That particular album was reissued in the late '90s, as part of EMI's centenary celebrations. The remainder of Cogan's catalog, however, lay either on old, deleted vinyl or scattered piecemeal across a sequence of well-intentioned, but scarcely representative, hits collections. The Girl With a Laugh in Her Voice rectifies that error, and many more. A handsomely packaged four-CD box set, the first three discs wrap up all four of Cogan's original albums in their entirety, together with the vast majority of her hit-single canon -- irresistible pieces of fluff like "I Can't Tell a Waltz From a Tango," "Twenty Tiny Fingers," and "Just Couldn't Resist Her With Her Pocket Transistor," alongside rich interpretations of "Tennessee Waltz," "Sugar Time," and "Why Do Fools Fall In Love." Novelties, standards, jazz, pop, or blues, Cogan could handle them all, and, if she did sing them all with a laugh in her voice, that only heightened the impact when she turned to the heartbreakers. The first three discs are essential; the fourth is simply magical. Aptly subtitled Hidden Gems, it collects 25 outtakes, foreign language cuts, and extracurricular oddities, her contributions to the stage versions of My Fair Lady and Oliver among them. Few have ever been on CD before, seven are previously unreleased in any form, and a handful -- had EMI only chosen to release them at the time -- might have sent Cogan's career soaring back to its original, dizzying heights. Three songs produced by Rolling Stones mastermind Andrew Loog Oldham in 1965 were shelved because they were too far removed from Cogan's usual style. In fact, they were just what her career was searching for -- one pounding pop rocker ("I Know"), one swinging ballad ("Love Is a Word") and one vast, symphonic epic. Drenched in Oldham's own take on the Phil Spector sound, "Now That I've Found You" draws out one of Cogan's most majestic performances ever, dwarfing the remake which she then cut for Alma, and dwarfing the efforts of virtually every contemporary singer you could mention. With a booklet packed with photographs and collector information, plus a beautiful essay by Cogan's sister, Sandra Caron, The Girl With a Laugh in Her Voice is an absolute triumph, a labor of love from the compilers, and precisely the monument which Cogan's memory has demanded for too long.

© Dave Thompson /TiVo

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