Joan suffered from rheumatic fever as a child which left her with a damaged mitral valve, although this did not cause problems until she was in her seventies.
Among them were Teresa Brewer's "Ricochet", "Till I Waltz Again with You", and "Jilted", Doris Day's "If I Give My Heart to You" and Jill Corey's "Cleo and Me-O" and "Love Me to Pieces".
[6] Beginning on 18 November 1953,[7] she became the resident singer on BBC producer Richard Afton's television series Quite Contrary.
[11] On leaving Decca in 1958, she signed with EMI's HMV label, where she had a Top 10 hit with a cover version of the McGuire Sisters' "May You Always".
[6] After receiving "abusive and wounding letters from people who were personally unknown to her", Regan successfully sued the newspaper for libel; her daughter, Donna, was actually born in April 1958.
[6] Regan married her third and last husband, Martin Cowan, a medical doctor, at Caxton Hall, London on 12 September 1966.
[13] In the United States, Regan recorded two singles for Columbia (one of which, "Don't Talk To Me About Love", went on to become a Northern soul classic).
[6] In 1987, some of those old tracks, together with others by Dickie Valentine, Lita Roza and Jimmy Young, were issued on the double album, Unchained Melodies.
Heartbreak Ahead" b/w "Nobody Danced with Me" b/w "The Rose and the Flame" b/w "Evermore" (US); "Love and Marriage" (UK) b/w "The Boy with the Magic Guitar" b/w "I'd Never Leave You Baby" (with the Johnston Brothers) b/w "Second Fiddle" b/w "Make Me a Child Again" b/w "Cross My Ever-Loving Heart" b/w "Speak for Yourself John" b/w "7½ Cents" b/w "Soft Sands" b/w "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" b/w "Take Me in Your Arms" b/w "Have You Ever Been Lonely?"