Talk:Alma Cogan

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I remember Alma Cogan well (I loved her singing as did all my friends and family). I can assure you that "The girl with a chuckle in her voice" was THE nickname used by radio announcers at the time (I'm sure there were some rare exceptions where they used 'laugh' or 'giggle', but 'chuckle was used 99.9% of the time!). 131.111.218.179 08:06, 12 June 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.172.132.18 (talk)

The Girl with the "Chuckle" in her Voice? 131.111.218.179 08:40, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes; 'laugh', 'giggle' and 'chuckle' were all used at various times - can't find a specific reference though. A photograph of her would be nice - please someone.


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:12, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

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Gender?
I also remember Alma Cogan on the "Take it from Here" radio show.

Shouldn't the article read "not a practising Jewess"?AT Kunene (talk) 09:26, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

The story regarding Paul McCartney's 'Yesterday' being first played at Cogan's seems like hearsay. According to various sources including the one for the song in wikipedia, McCartney wrote the song at Jane Asher's parents' house and played it on the piano there. The addresses could also not have been confused as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.10.146.207 (talk) 21:51, 24 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Actually, Paul played the melody for something like sixteen months day in, day out, no matter where he was, before he found any lyrics to it. The rest of the band (as well as Dick Lester on the set of Help!) positively hated the song by then. --79.242.222.168 (talk) 04:22, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Not only does it seem like hearsay, but it is not supported by the cited reference. And even if it were supported, the reference was to a personal page by Cogan's sister on tripod.com, which is not a reliable source. So I took that out.
 * I also took out the claim with the "citation needed" tag, since the "first played" claim was directly contradicted by this very reliable source: https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/yesterday.html. Dgndenver (talk) 11:15, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Pic?
Suitable subject for a portrait, I think. Valetude (talk) 22:20, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

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"But after Lennon actually met Cogan on the TV pop show Ready Steady Go! in 1964, they became close friends, so much so that Cogan's sister Sandra later said[14] that the pair had a serious romance.."

I've just read the Tripod webpage ('Beatles Girls - Sandra Cogan') from that link, and I can find nothing much about a reference to a relationship with Lennon—just that Alma "..became closer to both Beatles manager Brian Epstein and John Lennon." The page has links to another page, about Alma, which contains the following text:

"Nothing could become of John and Alma's relationship because of John being married with a child, and Alma being very old-fashioned and unable to entertain the idea of getting serious with a married man. But she enjoyed his advances so long as they remained relatively chaste."

— which, again, doesn't make a clear allegation of a romantic/sexual relationship. Has either or both of the Tripod pages been altered or censored since the passage in this article was written? Harfarhs (talk) 21:27, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

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