Ronnie Carroll

Ronnie Carroll at the Eurovision Song Contest 1962

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Walk hand in hand   UK 13 08/02/1956 (8 weeks) The Wisdom of a Fool   UK 20th 04/04/1957 (2 weeks) Footsteps   UK 36 04/06/1960 (3 weeks) Ring-a-thing girl   UK 46 02/28/1962 (3 weeks) Roses Are Red (My Love)   UK 3 08/08/1962 (16 weeks)   IE 7th 05.10.1962 (2 weeks) If Only Tomorrow   UK 33 11/21/1962 (4 weeks) Say wonderful things   UK 6th 03/13/1963 (14 weeks)   IE 6th 04/12/1963 (4 weeks)

Ronnie Carroll (born August 18, 1934 in Belfast , Northern Ireland as Ronald Cleghorn , † April 13, 2015 ) was a British singer and politician .

Career

Carroll gained his first stage experience as a participant in various variety shows, where he also met his first wife Millicent Martin . In 1956 he signed a contract with Philips Records and in the same year he had his first smaller hit with the song Walk Hand in Hand . In 1960 he took part in the British preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time with the song Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter , but failed to qualify for the final in the second preliminary round. In 1962 he took part again in the preliminary round and was this time more successful: With the song Ring-A-Ding Girl , written by Syd Cordell and composed by Stan Butcher , he was able to prevail against the eleven other participants and thus won the ticket for Luxembourg . At the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 he was quite successful; with ten points he reached a shared fourth place among 16 participants. Although the single only reached number 46 in the charts, he took part in the preliminary round for the third time in 1963 and was able to win again, this time with the song Say Wonderful Things (music by Philip Green and text by Norman Newell). At the Eurovision Song Contest in London in 1963 , he again reached fourth place. This time he received 28 points, but according to a different rating system. The song was also a commercial success this time, reaching number six in the British and Irish singles charts.

Say Wonderful Things was Carroll's last appearance on the charts, from then on he made his living mainly from appearances on cruise ships. In 1997 he stood for the small anti-parliamentary party Rainbow in Hampstead and Highgate in the general elections before he founded his own party with the name "Make Politicians History" with the same goal in 2005. In the same year he released a new album called Back on Song . Most recently he lived in Hampstead , London.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts UK Charts IE
2. ^ Ronnie Carroll: Former Eurovision singer and election candidate dies
3. ↑ http://www.geocities.ws/national_finals_50s_60s/UK1962.html
4. ↑ http://www.geocities.ws/national_finals_50s_60s/UK1963.html
5. ↑ http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by2001.html
6. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140973/bio