Alma Cogan - The Girl With A Laugh In Her Voice (2001)

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Artist: Alma Cogan
Title: The Girl With A Laugh In Her Voice
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Parlophone Records, Warner Music
Genre: Pop, Oldies, Vocal
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 04:35:07
Total Size: 668 Mb / 1,2 Gb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1:
01. I Love to Sing 1:59
02. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries 2:49
03. They Can't Take That Away from Me 1:59
04. Taking a Chance on Love 2:51
05. Ain't We Got Fun 3:01
06. You Do Something to Me 2:33
07. Today I Love Ev'rybody 2:29
08. Cheek to Cheek 2:57
09. If This Isn't Love 2:16
10. As Time Goes By 2:32
11. Comes Love 1:59
12. Blue Skies 2:59
13. With You in Mind 3:41
14. I Dream of You More Than You Dream I Do 3:09
15. Let's Fall in Love 2:23
16. In Other Words 3:49
17. My Heart Stood Still 2:25
18. But Beautiful 3:41
19. You'll Never Know 4:08
20. All I Do Is Dream of You 2:35
21. What Is There to Say 3:14
22. Don't Blame Me 4:07
23. Falling in Love with Love 2:10
24. The More I See You 3:35
25. When I Fall in Love 3:57

CD 2:
01. I Can't Give You Anything but Love 2:51
02. I've Never Been in Love Before 3:07
03. The Lady's in Love with You 2:37
04. I'm in the Mood for Love 3:18
05. Somebody Loves Me 3:04
06. Can't Help Falling in Love 2:53
07. Hello Young Lovers 4:57
08. Our Love Affair 2:34
09. Love Me as Though There Were No Tomorrow 2:27
10. Love Is Just Around the Corner 2:33
11. Let Me Love You 3:37
12. If Love Were All 3:50
13. Love Walked In 2:54
14. Let Her Go 1:59
15. Trains and Boats and Planes 3:14
16. Ticket to Ride 3:16
17. I Get a Kick out of You 3:54
18. There's a Time and Place 2:53
19. Eight Days a Week 3:56
20. Yesterday 3:14
21. I Feel Fine 2:45
22. Jolly Good Company 2:14
23. More 2:31
24. Don't You Know Yockomo 3:09
25. Now That I've Found You 3:45

CD 3:
01. Bell Bottom Blues 2:35
02. Little Things Mean a Lot 3:18
03. I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango 2:27
04. Dreamboat 1:47
05. The Banjo's Back in Town 2:06
06. Go on By 2:26
07. Twenty Tiny Fingers 2:37
08. Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo 2:13
09. Love and Marriage 2:39
10. Willie Can 2:09
11. It's All Been Done Before 3:08
12. (The Same Thing Happenes) With the Bird's and the Bees 2:15
13. Why Do Fools Fall in Love 2:18
14. In the Middle of the House 2:10
15. You Me and Us 2:14
16. Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets) 2:49
17. The Story of My Life 2:10
18. Sugartime 1:50
19. Last Night on the Back Porch 2:23
20. We Got Love 2:10
21. Dream Talk 2:53
22. The Train of Love 2:30
23. He Just Couldn't Resist Her with Her Pocket Transistor 2:27
24. Cowboy Jimmy Joe 2:29
25. Tennessee Waltz 2:11

CD 4:
01. Tennessee Waltz (German Language Vocal) 2:14
02. Mein Schonster Traum 2:20
03. So Fangt Es Immer An 2:44
04. Itte Kudes (Japanese Version of Tell Him) 2:15
05. O Dio Mio (Italian Version) 2:45
06. Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu) 2:46
07. This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' 1:45
08. Once in a While 2:42
09. It's a Fine Life 3:31
10. Oom Pah Pah 3:16
11. As Long as He Needs Me 4:00
12. I'd Do Anything 2:46
13. I Could Have Danced All Night 2:29
14. Wouldn't It Be Loverly 1:43
15. You're the Only One I Love 2:55
16. A Little Love 2:58
17. One 2:05
18. La Dee Dah 2:18
19. Ha-Ha-Ha 2:17
20. Too Much 1:51
21. The Birds and the Bees 2:15
22. It's You 2:32
23. Now That I've Found You 3:00
24. I Know 2:32
25. Love Is a Word 2:12

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

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