Alma Cogan discography

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{{Infobox artist discography|Artist=Alma Cogan|Image=|Caption=|Studio=7|Compilation=20|EP=5|Singles=78}}

This is the discography of English singer Alma Cogan.

Albums

=Studio albums=

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scope="row" |I Love to Sing

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scope="row" | With You in Mind

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  • Released: June 1961
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
scope="row" | Oliver!

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  • 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
scope="row" | How About Love!

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  • Released: December 1962
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
scope="row" | Alma Cogan

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  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
  • Sweden-only release
scope="row" | Alma

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  • Released: September 1967
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
scope="row" | 'Julie' the Musical

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  • 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=

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scope="row" | The Girl with the Laugh in Her Voice

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scope="row" |The Alma Cogan Collection

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  • Released: April 1977
  • Label: One-Up
  • Formats: LP
scope="row" | Second Collection

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  • Released: November 1978
  • Label: One-Up
  • Formats: LP
scope="row" | The Very Best of Alma Cogan

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  • Released: February 1984
  • Label: Music for Pleasure
  • Formats: LP, MC
scope="row" |A Celebration

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  • Released: 1987
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 2xLP
scope="row" | The Almanac

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  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Music for Pleasure
  • Formats: 2xCD, 2xLP
scope="row" | The Best of the EMI Years

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  • Released: 1991
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD, MC
scope="row" | The A–Z of Alma

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  • Released: October 1994
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 3xCD
scope="row" | EMI Presents the Magic of Alma Cogan

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  • Released: 19 May 1997
  • Label: EMI/Music for Pleasure
  • Formats: CD, MC
scope="row" | The Girl with the Laugh in Her Voice

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  • Released: 5 November 2001
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 4xCD
scope="row" | The Ultimate Alma Cogan

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  • Released: July 2002
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
scope="row" | Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries – 25 Classic Tracks

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  • Released: 30 May 2005
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
scope="row" | Celebration – The Ultimate Collection

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  • Released: 1 May 2006
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 3xCD
scope="row" | The Essential Collection

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  • Released: 10 September 2007
  • Label: Avid Entertainment
  • Formats: 2xCD
scope="row" | Bell Bottoms, Dreamboats, Tangos & Eskimos

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  • Released: 29 September 2008
  • Label: Acrobat Music
  • Formats: 4xCD
scope="row" | Dreamboat Her 31 Finest: 1953–1956

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  • Released: 27 October 2008
  • Label: Retrospective
  • Formats: CD
scope="row" | He Just Couldn't Resist Her – The Very Best of Alma Cogan

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  • Released: 11 March 2016
  • Label: Jasmine
  • Formats: CD
scope="row" | The Essential Recordings

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  • Released: 26 May 2017
  • Label: Primo
  • Formats: 2xCD
scope="row" | Two Classic Albums Plus Singles 1952–1962

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  • Released: 20 January 2017
  • Label: Real Gone Music
  • Formats: 4xCD
scope="row" | The Very Best of Alma Cogan

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  • Released: 23 October 2020
  • Label: One Day Music
  • Formats: 2xCD

EPs

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scope="row" |"The Girl with a Laugh in Her Voice"

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  • Released: September 1955
  • Label: His Master's Voice
scope="row" |"The Girl with a Laugh in Her Voice" (No. 2)

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  • Released: 1955
  • Label: His Master's Voice
scope="row" |"The Girl with a Laugh in Her Voice" (No. 3)

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  • Released: June 1956
  • Label: His Master's Voice
scope="row" |The Hits from My Fair Lady

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  • Released: 1958
  • Label: His Master's Voice
  • Split EP with Ronnie Hilton
scope="row" |She Loves to Sing

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  • Released: March 1959
  • Label: His Master's Voice

Singles

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! colspan="5" |Peak chart positions

scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | UK
{{Cite web|title=ALMA COGAN {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/1038/alma-cogan/|access-date=2022-01-28|website=www.officialcharts.com}}

! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | AUS
{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|title=Australian Chart Book 1940–1969|title-link=Kent Music Report|publisher=Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W.|year=2005|isbn=0-646-44439-5|author-link=David Kent (historian)}}

! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | FIN
{{Cite web|date=13 August 2015|title=Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit COB - COS|url=http://suomenlistalevyt.blogspot.com/2015/08/cob-cos.html|access-date=2022-01-28|website=Sisältää hitin}}

! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | GER
{{Cite web|title=Suche - Offizielle Deutsche Charts|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/suche|access-date=2022-01-28|website=www.offiziellecharts.de}}

! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | SWE
{{Cite web|title=Alma Cogan - Se alla låtar och listplaceringar|url=https://www.nostalgilistan.se/alma-cogan-14086|access-date=2022-01-28|website=NostalgiListan|language=sv}}

scope="row" | "To Be Worthy of You"
b/w "Would You"

| rowspan="6" |1952

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scope="row" | "The Homing Waltz" (with Larry Day)
b/w "To Be Loved by You"

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scope="row" | "Waltz of Paree"
b/w "Pretty Bride"

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scope="row" | "Blue Tango"
b/w "Half as Much"

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scope="row" | "I Went to Your Wedding"
b/w "You Belong to Me"

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scope="row" | "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me"
b/w "Wyoming Lullaby"

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scope="row" | "Till I Waltz Again with You"
b/w ""Happy Valley Sweetheart"

| rowspan="8" |1953

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scope="row" | "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me"
b/w ""If I Had a Penny

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scope="row" | "On the First Warm Day" (with Les Howard)
b/w "The Windsor Waltz" (by Les Howard)

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scope="row" | "Till They've All Gone Home"
b/w "Hug Me a Hug (Kiss Me a Kiss)" (with Les Howard)

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scope="row" | "If I Had a Golden Umbrella"
b/w "Mystery St."

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scope="row" | "My Love, My Love"
b/w "Wasted Tears"

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scope="row" | "Over and Over Again" (both sides with Les Howard)
b/w "Isn't Life Wonderful"

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scope="row" | "Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay)"
b/w "The Moon Is Blue"

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scope="row" | "Bell Bottom Blues"
b/w "Love Me Again"

| rowspan="9" |1954

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scope="row" | "Make Love to Me"
b/w "Said the Little Moment"

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scope="row" | "Little Shoemaker"
b/w "Chiqui-Chaqui (Chick-ee Chock-ee)"

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scope="row" | "Jilted" (both sides with Frankie Vaughan)
b/w "Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, Do It Again"

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scope="row" | "Little Things Mean a Lot"
b/w "Canoodlin' Rag"

|11

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scope="row" | "Skinnie Minnie (Fish Tail)"
b/w "What Am I Going to Do Ma (The Doo-Ma Song)"

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scope="row" | "This Ole House"
b/w "Skokiaan"

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scope="row" | "I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango"
b/w "Christmas Cards"

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scope="row" | "(Don't Let The) Kiddygeddin"
b/w "Mrs. Santa Claus"

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scope="row" | "Paper Kisses"
b/w "Softly, Softly"

| rowspan="10" |1955

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scope="row" | "Mambo Italiano"
b/w "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane"

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scope="row" | "Tweedlee-Dee"
b/w "More Than Ever Now"

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scope="row" | "Tika Tika Tok"
b/w "Chee-Chee-Oo-Chee (Sang the Little Bird)"

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scope="row" | "Dreamboat"
b/w "(The Diddle-Ee-I) Irish Mambo"

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scope="row" | "Where Will the Dimple Be"
b/w "Keep Me in Mind"

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scope="row" | "Got'n Idea"
b/w "Give a Fool a Chance"

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scope="row" | "The Banjo's Back in Town"
b/w "Go on By"

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scope="row" | "Hernando's Hideaway"
b/w "Blue Again"

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scope="row" | "Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo"
b/w "Twenty Tiny Fingers"

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scope="row" | "Love and Marriage"
b/w "Sycamore Tree"

| rowspan="8" |1956

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scope="row" | "Willie Can"
b/w "Lizzie Borden"

|13

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scope="row" | "Don't Ring-A Da Bell"
b/w "Bluebell"

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scope="row" | "No Other Love" (by Ronnie Hilton)
b/w "It's All Been Done Before" (with Ronnie Hilton)

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scope="row" | "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
b/w "The Birds and the Bees"

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scope="row" | "Mama Teach Me to Dance"
b/w "I'm in Love Again"

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scope="row" | "In the Middle of the House"
b/w "Two Innocent Hearts"

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scope="row" | "Pickin' a Chicken" (US-only release)
b/w "Willie Can"

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scope="row" | "You, Me and Us"
b/w "Three Brothers"

| rowspan="6" |1957

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scope="row" | "Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)"
b/w "Lucky Lips"

|26

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scope="row" | "Chantez, Chantez"
b/w "Funny, Funny, Funny"

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scope="row" | "Fabulous"
b/w "Summer Love"

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scope="row" | "That's Happiness"
b/w "What You've Done to Me"

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scope="row" | "Party Time"
b/w "Please Mister Brown (Mister Jones, Mister Smith)"

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scope="row" | "The Story of My Life"
b/w "Love Is"

| rowspan="5" |1958

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scope="row" | "Sugartime"
b/w "Gettin' Ready for Freddy"

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scope="row" | "Stairway of Love"
b/w "Comes Love"

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scope="row" | "Sorry, Sorry, Sorry"
b/w "Fly Away Lovers"

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scope="row" | "There's Never Been a Night"
b/w "If This Isn't Love"

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scope="row" | "Mama Says"
b/w "Last Night on the Back Porch"

| rowspan="3" |1959

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scope="row" | "Pink Shoe Laces"
b/w "The Universe"

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scope="row" | "We Got Love"
b/w "I Don't Mind Being All Alone"

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scope="row" | "Dream Talk"
b/w "O Dio Mio"

| rowspan="3" |1960

|48

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scope="row" | "The Train of Love"
b/w "The "I Love You" Bit" (with Oscar Nebbish, aka Lionel Bart)

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scope="row" | "Must Be Santa"
b/w "Just Couldn't Resist Her With Her Pocket Transistor"

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scope="row" | "Cowboy Jimmy Joe"
b/w "Don't Read the Letter"

| rowspan="3" |1961

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scope="row" | "With You in Mind"
b/w "Ja-Da"

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scope="row" | "All Alone"
b/w "Keep Me in Your Heart"

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scope="row" | "She's Got You"
b/w "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"

| rowspan="2" |1962

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scope="row" | "Goodbye Joe"
b/w "I Can't Give You Anything but Love"

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scope="row" | "Tell Him"
b/w "Fly Me to the Moon"

| rowspan="2" |1963

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scope="row" | "Just Once More"
b/w "Hold Your Hand Out You Naughty Boy"

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scope="row" | "Tennessee Waltz"
b/w "I Love You Too Much"

| rowspan="3" |1964

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scope="row" | "Tennessee-Waltz" (German-language version)
b/w "Mein schönster Traum (Que reste-t-il de nos amours)"

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scope="row" | "It's You"
b/w "I Knew Right Away"

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scope="row" | "The Birds and the Bees" (Scandinavia-only release)
b/w "Quando la luna"

|1965

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scope="row" | "Hill-Billy-Boy (Home on the Range)" (Germany-only release)
b/w "Ich liebe die Sonne (We'll Sing in the Sunshine)"

| rowspan="5" |1965

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scope="row" | "Ba-Ba-Song (Whiffenpoof-Song)" (Germany-only release)
b/w "Ruf mich an"

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scope="row" | "Snakes and Snails"
b/w "How Many Nights, How Many Days"

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scope="row" | "So fängt es immer an (A Lovers Concerto)" (Germany-only release)
b/w "Nun bist du mein Mann (Now That I Found You)"

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scope="row" | "Eight Days a Week"
b/w "Help!"

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|76

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scope="row" | "Love Ya Illya" (under the name Angela and the Fans)
b/w "I Know You"

| rowspan="4" |1966

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scope="row" | "Laß nicht soviel Zeit vergeh'n" (Germany-only release)
b/w "An jedem Tag ist Zeit (There Is a Time and Place)"

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scope="row" | "Hello Baby" (Sweden-only release)
b/w "There's a Time"

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scope="row" | "Now That I've Found You"
b/w "More"

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