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Clodagh Rodgers

Bio:

Clodagh Rodgers (b.1947) is a singer from Ballymena, Co.Antrim. Her father was a local promoter who spotted her talent early and she made her stage debut at 13. In 1962, at the age of 15, she signed to Decca Records and released her first single in November, credited to 'Cloda Rodgers'. She switched to EMI Columbia Records in 1965, but her recording career didn't really take off and she remained best known for her TV and film work.

This changed in 1969 when she began working with songwriter and producer Kenny Young. She'd signed to RCA Records the year before and made an impact om BBC TV's Colour Me Pop. Her third RCA single "Come Back and Shake Me" was the first of a string of hits that lasted into the early 1970s. She is probably best known for representing the UK in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest with "Jack In The Box". Ironically the chart hits dried up at the end of that year with "Lady Love Bug" being her last single to chart in the UK.

She continued to appear regularly on TV on shows like The Two Ronnies and Morecambe And Wise, and had her own The Clodagh Rodgers Show on RTE television in Ireland. She also appeared regularly on stage (musicals, variety, cabaret, etc). In 1977 she recorded for Polydor and managed an appearance on Top Of The Pops, but the single "Save Me" failed to chart. It has since been covered by several other artists including Helen Reddy, Louise Mandrell, Merrilee Rush and Clout. A 1980 B-side "My Simple Heart" had a similar story, becoming a Top 10 hit for The Three Degrees when they covered it.

These days it is her recordings for RCA from 1969-71 which are of most interest.

side one:
Without The One You Love
Arizona
The Colors Are Changing
Together
I Will
Come Back And Shake Me

side two:
Get Back
Tuesday Afternoon
Madeleine Off His Mind
Captain Of Your Ship
I Am A Fantasy
Under The Boardwalk

side one:
Night Games
Put a Little Love in Your Heart
Spider
Tangerines
Scrapbook
Biljo

side two:
Lock Me In
Up Down (with Kenny Young)
Mr. Bojangles
Paradise Alley
Goodnight Midnight
Nayli , Nayli , Get Me Down to Washington (Part 2)

side one:
Under Your Spell Again
Like A Humble Bunny (K.Young)
Wind Of Change
I Who Have Nothing
Look Left Look Right
Nothing Rhymed

side two:
Jack In The Box
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
Wolf (K.Young)
Let Me Be The One
Someone To Love Me
Stand By Your Man
Everybody Go Home

side one:
Come Back And Shake Me
Play The Drama To The End
Captain Of Your Ship
Room Full Of Roses
Joseph I'm Calling You

side two:
Goodnight Midnight
Rhythm Of Love
Under The Boardwalk
River Of Tears
Another Time Another Place

side one:
Help Me Make It Through the Night
It's Different Now
Get It Together
Natural Woman
Take Me Home
Coldwater Morning

side two:
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
The Painter and the Fool
Imagine
Happiness
Get Out of His Life
If I Were Your Woman

tracks:
Carolina Days
Ease Your Pain
Lean On Me
All Kinds Of People
Day By Day
You Are My Music
Betcha By Golly Wow
What In The World
Together We'll Make It
That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
One Day

side one:
Jack in the Box
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
Let Me Be the One
Tuesday Afternoon
Arizona
I Will
Come Back and Shake Me

side two:
Goodnight Midnight
You Are My Music
Nothing Rhymed
Everybody Go Home the Party's Over
Someone to Love Me
I am a Fantasy
Lady Love Bug

side one:
Save Me
Morning Comes Quickly
Leaving
Incident At The Roxy
Candlelight
Discovery

side two:
The Sun's On Sausalito
The Singer Of The Song
Put It Back Together
I Can't Survive
Loving Cup

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