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Alma Cogan Adds Another Country To Her Collection

Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 23 June 1962

THE JAPANESE are potty about Alma Cogan. It was a little number called 'Just Couldn't Resist Her, With Her Pocket Transistor' that won her the hearts of a million little Japanese, who, as a race, all clutch little transistors.

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