QUESTION: Did anyone else ever see Ms Alma Cogan live on a stage.........?
I did, along with my family, around Christmas 1957, at The Empress Theatre, Brixton, south west London. It was a pantomime show, I was about nine, and at the interval, out Alma came, in an impossible frock (similar to the one on the LP front sleeve), and belted out "the railroad runs through the middle of the house", 45 singlePOP 261 and if I recall correctly she sang one other song.
Pantomimes were sort of variety shows, aimed at children, so there would have been a "front of house band", to support her vocals, but I honestly cannot recall if she 'mimed' to a recording over the p.a. system or actually sang live......
Anyway, onto this album, the sleeve was printed and made by W R W, visible at bottom right of rear sleeve. W R W = Wood, Rozelaar and Wilkes, Chase House, North Acton Road, London NW10, and they also printed EP sleeves.
The sleeve is as far as I can tell a one piece construction, folded at the spine, and with two "ears" top and bottom, folded from front of sleeve, and glued to rear of sleeve. Interesting to me are the two crescent shaped die-cuts on the ears, which I do not recall seeing before. Lastly, I assume that the front litho colour sleeve and the ears have been laminated.