Clodagh Rodgers

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Clodagh Rodgers
  UK 27 09/13/1969 (1 week)
Singles
Come back and shake me
  UK 3 04/05/1969 (14 weeks)
  DE 39 07/01/1969 (2 weeks)
  IE 2 05/03/1969 (9 weeks)
Goodnight midnight
  UK 4th 07/02/1969 (12 weeks)
  IE 7th 08/09/1969 (7 weeks)
Biljo
  UK 22nd 11/01/1969 (9 weeks)
Everybody Go Home The Party's Over
  UK 47 04/04/1970 (2 weeks)
Jack in the box
  UK 4th 03/06/1971 (10 weeks)
  DE 36 05/10/1971 (5 weeks)
  IE 5 04/03/1971 (6 weeks)
Lady love bug
  UK 28 October 15, 1971 (12 weeks)

Clodagh Rodgers , also Cloda Rogers (born March 5, 1947 in Ballymena , Northern Ireland ) is a British singer and television presenter .

Career

Early years

Clodagh Rodgers signed her first recording deal with Decca Records in 1961 at the age of 14 . She recorded four singles before moving to Columbia Records , for which she appeared under the name "Cloda Rogers". She recorded the single Stormy Weather in 1966 (with Lonely Room as the B-side).

She first hit the charts in 1969 when two of her singles came under the top five - Come Back and Shake Me and Goodnight Midnight; no other singer sold as many records as her that year. Many of your titles in this phase were written by the American Kenny Young . With him she took on the single Give Me Just a Little More Line in 1970 ; under the name "Moonshine" the duo had moderate success.

Participation in the Eurovision Song Contest

In 1971 Rodgers was selected internally by the BBC to represent Great Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest . As was customary at the time, she presented six titles as a representative in a preliminary decision under the title A Song for Europe , from which regional juries selected the song Jack in the Box, composed by John Worsley and written by David Myers, as the winner.

Contributions to the preliminary round

No. title space
1. Look Left, Look Right 5
2. In My World of Beautiful Things 6th
3. Jack in the box 1
4th Another time, another place 4th
5. Wind of Change 2
6th Someone to Love Me 2

At the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1971 she was quite successful: with 98 points she came fourth out of 18 participants. The song was also a commercial success, earning the singer a third top 10 placement in the UK and Ireland . The single also hit the charts in Germany .

Later years and other successes

After participating in the competition, Rodgers had only moderate success in the charts, but from then on also worked as a television presenter. She won among other things, a prize at the " Golden Rose of Montreux " for their own show The Clodagh Rodgers show, also she appeared in some shows like Seaside Special (she hosted the first episode of the series) and the sketch show The Two Ronnies with . She later sang her own show in London's West End and played it in the two musicals Pump Boys and Dinettes and Blood Brothers . With the latter she went on tour through Great Britain between 1995 and 1998.

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  1. ↑ http://www.charts-surfer.de/musiksuche.php
  2. ↑ http://www.charts-surfer.de/musiksuche.php
  3. ↑ http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement

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personal data
SURNAME Rodgers, Clodagh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rogers, Cloda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballymena , Northern Ireland , UK