I Love to Sing

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I Love to Sing
Alma Cogan-I Love To Sing.jpg
Studio album by
Released1958
Recorded1958
Genre Pop
Label His Masters Voice, EMI Records
Alma Cogan chronology
I Love to Sing
(1958)
With You in Mind
(1961)
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I Love to Sing is Alma Cogan's first album, released in 1958 on the His Masters Voice an EMI Records label. All the tracks on the album were arranged by Frank Cordell. [2] [3]

Contents

The original mono recording has been re-issued on compact disc by EMI Records in 2003, combined with her next album, With You in Mind . All tracks were also included on the EMI Records 4-CD boxset The Girl with a Laugh in Her Voice in 2001.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "I Love to Sing" (Paul Misraki, Michael Carr, Tommie Connor)
  2. "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" (Ray Henderson, Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown)
  3. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  4. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, John Latouche, Ted Fetter)
  5. "Ain't We Got Fun" (Richard A. Whiting, Raymond Egan, Gus Kahn)
  6. "You Do Something to Me" (Cole Porter)

Side two

  1. "Today I Love Everybody" (Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields)
  2. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin)
  3. "If This Isn't Love" (Burton Lane, E. Y. Harburg)
  4. "As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld)
  5. "Comes Love" (Sam Stept, Charles Tobias, Lew Brown)
  6. "Blue Skies" (Irving Berlin)

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Alma Cogan I Love to Sing I Love to Sing at AllMusic
  3. "Alma Cogan". Alma Cogan. Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2012-02-23.