Alma Cogan - Where will the dimple be?

Alma Cogan was an English singer of traditional pop music and novelty songs in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed "The Girl With the Laugh/Giggle/Chuckle In Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. Throughout the mid-1950s, she was the most consistently successful female singer in the UK. Early in her career the BBC hired her as a vocalist for the radio programme Take It From Here which was a hugely popular show at the time. As was fashionable in those days, many of her recordings were covers of US recordings and Where Will the Dimple Be? was a cover of a Rosemary Clooney hit. Despite receiving lots of radio plays in 1955 it didn't enter the British charts, while Rosemary's version got into the Top 10. However, Alma appeared on the UK Singles Chart eighteen times between 1954 and 1960, with the 1955 release "Dreamboat" reaching Number 1. Her career was buoyed by frequent television appearances showcasing not only her vocal prowess but her bubbly personality. Typically, Alma wore hooped skirts heavy with sequins and figure-hugging tops (see picture). Alma topped the annual NME reader's poll as "Outstanding British Female Singer" in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1960 remaining a popular personality despite no longer being a major chart presence. Singer Anne Shelton attributed her friend Alma's health decline to "highly experimental" injections she took to lose weight. She was hospitalised for three weeks before succumbing to ovarian cancer on 26 October 1966 at the age of 34. A blue plaque commemorating Alma was installed by the entrance of her longtime residence, on 4 November 2001.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• British
• music;
• Music;
• Novelty
• song;
• 1950s;
• 1955;
• Fifties;
• Comedy;
• Comedy
• BBC
• Radio;
• Alma
• Cogan;
• Where
• will
• the
• dimple
• be?;
• Dimple;
• Baby
• songs

[VealParmigiana]

Rosemary Clooney's recording of this song is the classic version.

[plumgtoung]

She was a Great singer, The British "Teresa brewer"