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Cogan's first release was "To Be Worthy of You" / "Would You", recorded on her 20th birthday.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} This led to her appearing regularly on the BBC's radio show ''[[Gently Bentley]]'', and then becoming the vocalist for ''[[Take It From Here]]'', a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the [[BBC]] between 1948 and 1960.
In 1953, while recording "If I Had a Golden Umbrella", she broke into a giggle; she then played up the effect on later recordings. Soon she was dubbed the "Girl with the giggle in her voice" ("Giggle" has sometimes been quoted as "chuckle".)<ref name="bio">{{cite web |url=http://www.almacogan.org/1biography.html |title=Alma Cogan – Biography |accessdate=12 February 2008|
Many of her recordings were covers of U.S. hits, especially those recorded by [[Rosemary Clooney]], [[Teresa Brewer]], [[Georgia Gibbs]], [[Joni James]] and [[Dinah Shore]]. Her voice was often compared with [[Doris Day]]'s. One of these covers, "[[Bell Bottom Blues (Carr/David song)|Bell Bottom Blues]]", became her first hit, reaching no. 4 on 3 April 1954.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?week=19540403 |title=Chartstats.com |publisher=Chartstats.com |date=27 March 1954 |accessdate=30 December 2011}}</ref> Cogan would appear in the UK Singles Chart eighteen times in the 1950s, with "Dreamboat" reaching no. 1. Other hits from this period include "[[I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango]]", "[[Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)|Why Do Fools Fall in Love]]", "[[Sugartime]]" and "[[The Story of My Life (Burt Bacharach and Hal David song)|The Story of My Life]]". Cogan's first album, ''[[I Love to Sing]]'', was released in 1958.
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