Digital recording of Alma Cogan in the 1950's?

BRY2K

I am not certain exactly what you are asking, maybe the answer can be found somewhere in this mini-biography? Alma Cogan was one of the most successful and tragic figures in English pop music of the 1950's and early 1960's. Her 18 chart hits were a record for a female singer at the end of the 1950's in England, and despite being of the pre-rock 'n roll era, Cogan seemed capable of working with the new music when her life was cut short. Cogan began her career doing ballads, but her first hit was a novelty tune called "Bell Bottom Blues" (not the Derek & The Dominoes song), which got to No. 5 on the British charts in 1954. A year later, she topped the charts for the first and only time with "Dreamboat." She also covered several American hits, including "The Birds and the Bees" and "Why Do Fools Fall In Love, " which was a hint of the range she would show in her later career. By the turn of the 50's into the 1960's, she was also the star of her own television program, and she reached the apex of her success when Lionel Bart-whom, at one point, she apparently intended to marry-cast her as Nancy in Oliver! Her name receded from the pop charts somewhat in the early 1960's, as younger performers such as Helen Shapiro joined the EMI roster, but Cogan was a fixture as a concert attraction during the first half of the decade. More here: http://www.mp3.com/artist/alma-cogan/summary/ Apr 23 08, 9:46 AM

zbeckabee

And in case you're wondering if she comes "digital"...the answer is yes. Critics hail her belatedly as "an iconic performer," "a leisure icon" redolent of "happier, less complex times." Her image on film and videotape is "electronically colorized, emulsified, embellished, enhanced, coaxed toward some state of virtual reality," while her voice is "artificially reprocessed for stereo effect and reincarnated in half-speed remastering and on digital compact disk." http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDA133DF932A3575AC0A964958260 Apr 23 08, 11:47 AM