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Clodagh Rodgers (born 5 March 1947) is a retired singer and actress from
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, best known for her
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including " Come Back and Shake Me", "Goodnight Midnight", and "
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".


Career

Rodgers was born in
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and began her professional singing career at 13 when she opened for
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. Her father, a dancehall tour promoter, helped her sign with
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in 1962, where her earliest singles were produced by
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. Her UK TV debut came on 26 September 1962, appearing as a guest on BBC TV's ''
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Show'' performing ''
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''. She made four
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with Decca, before moving to EMI's Columbia label in 1965, where 'Cloda Rogers' made the 1966 single " Stormy Weather"/" Lonely Room". Although none of her Decca or Columbia singles made the
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, Rodgers became a regular face on British television and appeared in the musical films '' Just for Fun'' (1963) and '' It's All Over Town'' (1964). She also appeared in various song festivals, finishing third in the European Song Cup competition in
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with "Powder Your Face With Sunshine". In November 1963 she flew to
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at the invitation of the American singer
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, to perform at the
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. On his Irish tour earlier that year he had recognised that Rodgers was a promising artist with a bright future. Rodgers appeared with Honeybus on
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's music programme ''
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'' on 12 October, 1968. Her career changed dramatically when she married John Morris, who became her manager. She signed a three-single deal with
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in 1968, but the first two failed to
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. When producer and songwriter
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saw her on ''Colour Me Pop'' he telephoned the BBC to find out who she was. Clodagh Rodgers finally shot to chart success in 1969 under his creative wing and with Morris' management (Morris also later managed
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and
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), "Come Back and Shake Me" and "Goodnight Midnight" both were
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hits and made her the best-selling female singles artist of 1969. The same year, she won 'The Best Legs' in British showbusiness and
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her voice for one million pounds. Her next two single releases "Biljo" and "Everybody Go Home, The Party's Over", were less successful. Neither broke the top 20 and the latter failed to reach the top 40. Her next single, "Tangerines, Tangerines" in January 1970 didn't chart at all, despite heavy television promotion on such highly popular shows as '' The Morecambe & Wise Show'', '' Frost On Sunday'' and ''
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''. The single was re-released in April 1970 with the B-Side track "Wolf" promoted as the A-Side, but it still failed to chart. Young wrote and produced many of these songs. She also recorded "Scrapbook," penned by Billy Ritchie, which appeared on her 1969 album ''Midnight Clodagh''. In 1970 she recorded "Give Me Just a Little More Line" with Young under the name Moonshine; though it achieved airplay and critical notice, it failed to chart. Rodgers picked this track as one of her eight favourite discs when she appeared as the featured castaway on the BBC's
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in March 1971. In May 1970 Rodgers appeared on the bill at the ''
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'' poll-winner's concert, hosted by
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and
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.


Eurovision

By this time Rodgers had become a TV
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and household name. In 1970 she was asked to represent the UK in the 1971
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in Dublin. According to
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's ''The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History'', part of the reasoning behind the
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's invitation was their concern over the reaction the UK entrant would get on the stage from the Irish public. As a Catholic Northern Irishwoman, she received death threats from the
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, who regarded her as a traitor, as a result of her appearing for the UK. Heralded by two separate front-cover features on the BBC listing's magazine, the ''
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'', Rodgers appeared as the resident guest on '' It's Cliff Richard'', a prime-time variety show hosted by
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on
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from January 1971, performing one shortlisted song a week for six weeks, followed by a performance of all six on week seven and with a repeat of the six songs immediately after. Viewers would normally have been asked to send in postcard votes for their favourites, but because of a postal strike, regional juries decided the winner, with "
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", written by John Worsley and David Myers, being named the winner the following week. For the first time in the Eurovision Song Contest, broadcasters were required to prepare a '
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of the song for broadcast in all the participating Eurovision countries to help promote the songs before the big night. For the performance in Dublin, Rodgers wore a pink frilly top and spangled
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. She finished in fourth place, behind
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, Spain and Germany. It was the first time since 1966 that the UK had not placed first or second. After Eurovision, the single reached number 4 on the
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, her third and last UK Top 10 success. It remains her most famous hit. At Eurovision, Rodgers' sister Lavinia joined
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as her four backing vocalists. In
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, Lavinia and brother Louis attempted to represent the UK in the contest with 'Every Day of My Life' as part of the group 'Good Looks', but finished second to Bardo in A Song For Europe.


Post-Eurovision career

Rodgers admitted to
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during his eponymous
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show in an interview broadcast on Friday, 25 May 2012, that the intention had been to release "Another Time, Another Place", which had placed fourth of the six entries in the ''Song for Europe'' contest as the follow-up single to "Jack in the Box" and she began promoting it whilst in Dublin for the Eurovision final. However, Engelbert Humperdinck released a cover version before her track was available, denying her the opportunity to release it, but gaining himself a No.13 hit single. Despite only one more chart single, "Lady Love Bug" in autumn 1971, Rodgers continued to be a major TV star in the UK, guesting on many shows (including playing herself in the BBC sitcom ''
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''), appearing in
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, and becoming the face of '
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' in a series of television advertisements. On Irish television, ''The Clodagh Rodgers Show'' won an award at the
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TV festival in
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. She starred in many other shows, including ''
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'' in 1974, singing three songs, including her latest single "Get It Together". Rodgers also appeared in ''
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'' for
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in 1975 and '' The Morecambe and Wise Show'' in 1970. She was a regular guest of ''
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''. In August 1973, Rodgers hosted the first edition of BBC2's ''Show Of The Week: The
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Big Top'', the forerunner of the later BBC1 series ''
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''. Rodgers also made a mark with her impressions of fellow artists such as
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, often working with
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,
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,
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, and
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in variety. She was a regular performer in UK
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s' summer seasons, sharing the bill with Mike and Bernie Winters, among others. This success was mirrored on stage, where she has starred in London's West End in her own show at the Talk of the Town (breaking
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's box office record) and in ''
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'' at the
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in 1971. Her stage career was damaged when she walked out on the show ''Meet Me in London'' at London's
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in April 1971. The show, a fixed 10-week fill-in between the closure of the musical ''
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'' and a new production of ''
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'', was produced by
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, and consisted of two halves. Clodagh was due to feature in the opening half, mainly with the 30-strong singing and dancing group, The Young Generation, with two interspersed spots, one with comics Hope and Keen, the other some songs from Rodgers. The second half was a
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-centred spectacular that had originally been played in
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. After cuts to the running order to trim the show's length, Rodgers and her manager/husband walked out 15 minutes before curtain-up on opening night. Hope and Keen filled in for her and after a few shows singer
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took over her spot. Despite this, Rodgers continued with TV work through the late 1970s. As part of BBC1's celebration of the UK and Ireland both joining the European Economic Community on 1 January 1973, Clodagh appeared on ''Top Of The Year'' on 31 December 1972, alongside
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and with
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in ''The Tarbuck Follies'' on 1 January 1973 to see in the new year. Having been dropped by RCA in early 1974, Clodagh released just one single for the Pye label, "Saturday Sunday" later that year. She signed to
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in 1976. Despite extensive radio
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and television appearances, her 1977 single " Save Me" failed to chart. The track was
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who took it to number six on the US
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in 1983. "Save Me" was also covered by the South African
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Clout (an SA no. 7 hit in 1979). Other artists who covered this song include
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and
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. The failure of the Polydor album or any of the singles issued from it to reach the UK charts led to the label dropping her in 1978. In 1978, Rodgers hosted UK
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's St. Patrick's Day variety show for the first time, appearing on the cover of the ''
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'' to promote the show and at the same time was confirmed as the host for the 1979 show. Later in 1978, Rodgers teamed with
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on the ITV game show '' 3-2-1'' in the programme's first Christmas Special Celebrity edition, and the pair became the first contestants (celebrity or otherwise) to end up with the 'Dustbin' as their prize, losing the chance to attain a prize for their nominated charity. She split from her manager/husband not long after their son's birth and opted for motherhood over performing, although she released two singles on the Precision label in 1980. One of these tracks was "My Simple Heart," which was placed on a
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. Shortly after its release,
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released their version of it, which reached the UK Top 10. Similarly, Rodgers had released " Stand by Your Man" as the B-side of her 1971 single "Lady Love Bug." "Stand by Your Man" (co-written by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill) had previously been a hit for Tammy Wynette in the U.S. Country charts in 1968 and later a
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hit single for Wynette when it was released the UK in 1975.


Later years

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-based restaurant business collapsed, leaving them bankrupt. She has appeared in two musicals in the West End. These are ''
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'' at the
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and Albery Theatres and in the lead role of Mrs Johnstone in the long-running hit '' Blood Brothers'' at the Phoenix Theatre. She appeared in the UK tour of ''Blood Brothers'' between 1995 and 1998. In 1996, the first of two CD retrospectives was issued, bringing Rodgers back into the limelight. In 1998, she made a rare TV appearance with other former Eurovision artists such as Johnny Logan and Lynsey de Paul, performing on comedian John Shuttleworth's Eurovision
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''Europigeon'' on BBC Two, just before the 1998 contest in
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. In 1999,
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issued the track "Shake Me," which
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Rodgers' original recording of "Come Back And Shake Me"; it was featured in the UK TV production '' Queer As Folk''. In 2001, Rodgers played a recurring character in the ITV drama series ''
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''. She retired from the music business in 2015 at the age of 68.


Other

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'', Episode 34: " The Cycling Tour", Mr. Gulliver (
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) receives a head trauma from an auto accident and is convinced that he is Clodagh Rodgers. At the end of the episode, two large
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-animated monsters, who had been eyeing the cyclist lead character Mr. Pither (
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) from behind a bush, wait until Pither is gone, jump out, and dance up and down to Rodgers' rendition of "Jack in the Box".


Discography


Albums

* 1969 ''Clodagh Rodgers'' – (RCA SF8033) – UK Number 27 * 1969 ''Midnight Clodagh'' – (RCA SF8071) * 1971 ''Rodgers and Heart'' – (RCA Victor SF8180) * 1972 ''It's Different Now'' – (RCA SF8271) * 1973 '' You Are My Music'' – (RCA SF8394) * 1977 '' Save Me'' – (Polydor Super 2383473)


Compilations

* 1971 ''Clodagh Rodgers'' (Compilation) – (RCA Camden CDS1094) * 1973 ''Come Back and Shake Me'' (Compilation) – (RCA International 1434) * 1996 ''You Are My Music – The Best of Clodagh Rodgers'' (Compilation CD) – (BMG Camden BM830) * 1997 ''The Masters'' (Compilation CD) – (Eagle EACD076) * 2012 ''Come Back & Shake Me: The Kenny Young Years 1969–71'' (Compilation CD) – (RPM B006TX26SG)


Singles

* 1962 "Believe Me I'm No Fool" / "End of the Line" (Decca F11534) [Produced by
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] * 1963 "Sometime Kind of Love" / "I See More of Him" (Decca F11607) * 1963 "To Give My Love to You" / "I Only Live to Love You" (Decca F11667) * 1964 "Mister Heartache" / "Time" (Decca F11812) * 1965 "Wanting You" / "Johnny Come Home" (Columbia DB7468) * 1966 "Every Day Is Just the Same" / "You'll Come a Running" (Columbia DB7926) * 1966 " Stormy Weather" / " Lonely Room" (Columbia DB8038) * 1968 "Room Full of Roses" / "Play the Drama to the End" (RCA 1684) * 1968 "Rhythm of Love" / "River of Tears" (RCA 1748) * 1969 " Come Back and Shake Me" / "I Am a Fantasy" (RCA 1792) – UK Number 3 * 1969 "Goodnight Midnight" / "Together" (RCA 1852) UK Number 4 * 1969 "Biljo" / "Spider" (RCA 1891) UK Number 22, AUS Number 76 * 1970 "Everybody Go Home the Party's Over" / "Joseph I'm Calling You" (RCA 1930) UK Number 47 * 1970 "Give Me Just a Little More Line" / "I Am the Tail" (RCA 1954) (duet with Kenny Young credited as 'Moonshine') * 1970 "Tangerines, Tangerines" / "Wolf" (RCA 1966)~ * 1971 "
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" / "Someone to Love Me" (RCA 2066)~~ UK Number 4, AUS Number 67 * 1971 "Lady Love Bug" / " Stand by Your Man" (RCA 2117) UK Number 28, AUS Number 68 * 1972 "It's Different Now" / "Take Me Home" (RCA 2192) * 1972 "You Are My Music" / "One Day" (RCA 2298) * 1973 "Carolina Days" / "Loving You" (RCA 2355) * 1973 "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" (RCA 5248) * 1974 "Get It Together" / "Take Me Home" (RCA 5008) * 1974 "Saturday Sunday" / "Love Is" (PYE 7N 45387) * 1977 "Save Me" / "Sleepyhead" (Polydor 2058804) * 1977 "Put It Back Together" / "Lay Me Down" (Polydor 2058887) * 1977 "Incident at the Roxy" (Polydor 2058864) * 1977 "Loving Cup" / "Morning Comes Quickly" (Polydor 2058934) * 1978 "Love Is Deep Inside of Me" / "Candlelight" (Polydor 2058997) * 1980 "I Can't Afford That Feeling Anymore" / "My Simple Heart" (Precision 109) * 1980 "Person to Person" / "My Simple Heart" (Precision 119) * 1999 "Shake Me" (Mint Royale ft. Clodagh Rodgers) (FHCD010) ~ "Tangerines, Tangerines" was originally released as the A-side of the single in January 1970, but when it failed to chart, the single was re-issued with B-side "Wolf" as the lead track in April 1970.
~~ Three singles of ''Jack In The Box'' were issued under catalogue no. RCA 2066. The first had the 'B' Side ''Someone To Love Me''; the second had the 'B' Side ''Wind of Change''; the third had both tracks on the 'B' side and was a 33.3 RPM Maxi Single.


UK television appearances


1960s

* 26 September 1962 – BBCtv: Adam Faith Show * 10 November 1962 – BBCtv: Adam Faith Show * 3 January 1963 – BBCtv: Like... Music * 26 February 1963 – BBCtv: The 625 Show * 11 June 1963 – BBCtv: The 625 Show * 22 June 1963 – ITV: Thank Your Lucky Stars * 18 February 1964 – ITV: The Five O'Clock Club * 12 October 1968 – BBC2: Colour Me Pop * 20 February 1969 – ITV: Walk Right In * 26 February 1969 – ITV: Discotheque * 17 March 1969 – BBC1: Dee Time * 10 April 1969 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 17 April 1969 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 24 April 1969 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 8 May 1969 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 31 May 1969 – ITV: Set 'Em Up Joe * 30 June 1969 – ITV: Mike & Bernie's Show * 3 July 1969 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 5 July 1969 – BBC1: The Roy Castle Show * 6 July 1969 – ITV: The Golden Shot * 12 July 1969 – ITV: Set 'Em Up Joe * 17 July 1969 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 24 July 1969 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 26 July 1969 – BBC1: Dee Time * 7 August 1969 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 24 August 1969 – ITV: The Golden Shot * 25 October 1969 – ITV: Frost On Saturday * 30 October 1969 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 16 November 1969 – ITV: The Golden Shot * 25 December 1969 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops Christmas Special


1970s

* 3 January 1970 – BBC2: Colour Me Pop * 17 January 1970 – BBC1: The Val Doonican Show * 1 March 1970 – ITV: Frost On Sunday * 14 March 1970 – BBC2: Disco 2 * 25 March 1970 – BBC2: Show Of The Week – The Morecambe And Wise Show * 8 June 1970 – ITV: Mike And Bernie's Scene * 11 June 1970 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 13 June 1970 – BBC1: The Roy Castle Show * 14 June 1970 – ITV: Stars On Sunday * 4 July 1970 – BBC2: The Val Doonican Show ''(repeat from BBC1)'' * 4 July 1970 – ITV: The Des O’Connor Show * 19 July 1970 – ITV: The Golden Shot * 16 August 1970 – ITV: Joe (The Joe Brown Show) * 22 August 1970 – BBC1: It's Lulu * 5 September 1970 – ITV: Maggie's Place * 10 October 1970 – BBC1: The Harry Secombe Show * 29 October 1970 – BBC1: The Morecambe And Wise Show ''(repeat from BBC2)'' * 12 December 1970 – ATV: It's Tarbuck * 25 December 1970 – BBC1: Christmas Night With The Stars * 9 January 1971 – BBC1: It's Cliff Richard * 16 January 1971 – BBC1: It's Cliff Richard * 23 January 1971 – BBC1: It's Cliff Richard * 30 January 1971 – BBC1: It's Cliff Richard * 6 February 1971 – BBC1: It's Cliff Richard * 13 February 1971 – BBC1: It's Cliff Richard * 20 February 1971 – BBC1: It's Cliff Richard ''(A Song for Europe 1971)'' * 27 February 1971 – BBC1: It's Cliff Richard * 27 March 1971 – BBC1: It's Cliff Richard * 1 April 1971 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 3 April 1971 – BBC1: The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 * 10 April 1971 – BBC2: The Talk Of The Town * 24 July 1971 – BBC2: The Harry Secombe Show ''(repeat from BBC1)'' * 29 July 1971 – ITV: It's Tarbuck * 16 September 1971 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 9 October 1971 – BBC1: Bruce Forsyth & The Generation Game * 11 November 1971 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 1 January 1972 – BBC1: Time For Baxter * 16 February 1972 – BBC1: Whacko! * 8 April 1972 – BBC1: '' Tarbuck's Luck'' * 20 April 1972 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 29 April 1972 – ITV: Saturday Variety * 13 May 1972 – ITV: The Rolf Harris Show * 31 May 1972 – ITV: Des (The Des O'Connor Show) * 26 August 1972 – ITV: Saturday Variety * 7 September 1972 – BBC2: Sacha's In Town * 3 December 1972 – ITV: The Golden Shot * 10 December 1972 – ITV: The Golden Shot * 14 December 1972 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 17 December 1972 – ITV: The Golden Shot * 26 December 1972 – ITV: All The Jokers – Full House * 31 December 1972 – BBC1: Top Of The Year * 1 January 1973 – BBC1: Tarbuck Follies * 10 April 1973 – ITV: It's Tarbuck * 5 May 1973 – ITV: Mike & Bernie's Show * 6 May 1973 – ITV: The Golden Shot * 9 June 1973 – BBC2: They Sold A Million * 28 June 1973 – ITV: STV Showcase * 5 August 1973 – ITV: Russell Harty Plus * 6 August 1973 – BBC2: Show Of The Week – The Young Generation Big Top * 25 December 1973 – ITV: Tommy Cooper's Christmas * 3 January 1974 – BBC2: Show Of The Week – The Two Ronnies * 24 March 1974 – ITV: Sunday Night At The London Palladium ''(appearance postponed from 10th January)'' * 11 May 1974 – BBC1: Look – Mike Yarwood * 9 June 1974 – BBC2: They Sold A Million * 11 June 1974 – ITV: The Tommy Cooper Hour * 26 July 1974 – ITV: Sez Les * 27 July 1974 – BBC1: The Two Ronnies ''(repeat from BBC2)'' * 28 December 1974 – ITV: It's Norman * 31 January 1975 – ITV: Russell Harty * 2 August 1975 – BBC1: Seaside Special * 13 December 1975 – BBC1: Seaside Special * 18 December 1976 – ITV (LWT only): Saturday Scene * 18 December 1976 – ITV: Supersonic * 6 January 1977 – BBC1: Top Of The Pops * 8 January 1977 – ITV: Celebrity Squares * 8 February 1977 – BBC2: The Musical Time Machine * 26 February 1977 – BBC1: Ronnie Corbett's Saturday Special * 19 March 1977 – BBC1: This Is Peter Morrison * 31 October 1977 – BBC2: Des O’Connor Tonight * 1 February 1978 – ITV: I'm Bob, He's Dickie * 17 March 1978 – ITV: When Irish Stars Are Smiling * 13 April 1978 – BBC1: Ronnie Corbett's Thursday Special * 18 May 1978 – BBC2: Des O’Connor Tonight ''(repeat from BBC2)'' * 25 December 1978 – ITV: 3-2-1 Christmas Special * 17 March 1979 – ITV: Stars Across The Water * 27 April 1979 – BBC1: The Ronnie Corbett Special * 27 October 1979 – BBC1: The Basil Brush Show * 14 November 1979 – ITV: London Night Out


1980s – 2020s

* 12 November 1980 – ITV: London Night Out * 4 March 1981 – ITV (Granada Only): Live From Two * 22 June 1981 – ITV: Now For Nookie * 11 December 1981 – BBC1: Pebble Mill * 16 January 1982 – BBC1: The Two Ronnies * 31 March 1983 – Channel 4: Unforgettable * 3 May 1991 – BBC1: Gloria Live * 6 September 1993 – BBC1: Whatever Happened To...? * 24 April 1994 – BBC1: Biteback * 4 May 1998 – BBC2: Europigeon * 10 July 1999 – ITV: Moonshot – The Spirit Of '69 * 2002 - BBC Northern Ireland: Music Asides


See also

* List of RCA Records artists *
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References


External links

* *
Mini biography at Irish Connections


* Clodagh Rodgers biographyat
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