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Lita Roza, who has died aged 82, was the first Liverpool performer to have a number one record. As the first woman to have a UK Number One, you might think that Lita Roza would have been proud of ...

Lita Roza, who died on August 14 aged 82, sang the novelty hit How Much is That Doggie in the Window?, which in 1953 made her the first British female vocalist to top the recently-instituted charts.

Born Lilian Patricia Lita Roza in Liverpool on March 14, 1926, star of the 1950s Lita Roza grew up in 13 Upper Pitt Street and attended St. Michael's and Granby Street Council School. Talented ...

The novelty song, written by one Bob Merrill, was a hit for Lita Roza in 1953, I remind myself today. Lita, I remember, was at the Grand Opera House in Belfast that same year singing about the dog ...

Lita Roza's 1953 hit, How Much Is That Doggie In The Window, was the first UK No.1 by a British woman but not the first by a woman. Jo Stafford hit the top of the charts in 1952 with You Belong To Me.

The first Liverpudlian to have a number one. Lita Roza who topped the charts with 'How Much is that Doggie in the Window?' in 1953 talks to BBC Liverpool about her career and the growing up in ...