Clodagh Rodgers

Irish pop diva Clodagh Rodgers was created March 5, 1947, in Ballymena, Ulster, and built her professional debut at age 13 starting for United kingdom singing star Michael Holliday. Championed by her dad, a dancehall tour promoter, she agreed upon to Decca in 1962 and have scored a U.K. strike with her debut one, “TRUST ME, I’m No Fool,” acknowledged to the even more phonetic “Cloda Rogers.” The record gained Rodgers an appearance in the 1963 film Simply for Fun, which same yr she came into the European Music Glass with her second solitary, “Powder THAT PERSON With Sunlight.” Another film, 1964’s It’s AROUND City, preceded a proceed to the Columbia label to concern “Seeking You” the next year; it had been Rodgers’ last documenting for four years, however when she resurfaced in 1969 on RCA, she instantly got in the English Best Five with her return single “KEEP COMING BACK and Tremble Me.” A self-titled LP quickly adopted, and with the next Midnight Clodagh, Rodgers obtained two even more hits, “Goodnight Midnight” and “Biljo.” 1971’s Rodgers and Heart yielded another couple of well-received singles, “Wolf” and “Everybody GO BACK HOME.” Her most remarkable recording, “Jack port in the Package,” was came into that yr in the Eurovision Music Competition — it didn’t earn, but was a significant hit even so. But following the light-weight “Lady Love Insect” didn’t earn much industrial interest, Rodgers followed a more older, advanced pop sound with 1972’s aptly-titled It’s Different Today. The follow-up, 1973’s You Are My Music, uncovered a pronounced nation influence, but didn’t garner an market, so she still left RCA and spent another many years touring the cabaret circuit, acquiring time out for the six-month run on the London Palladium within a creation of Cinderella. Rodgers agreed upon to Polydor to concern 1977’s Conserve Me, time for radio thanks to the title trim; the solo “Love Is normally Deep Within Me” premiered the next calendar year, but aside from a set of 1980 singles for Accuracy — “I CANNOT Afford That Sense Anymore” and “Individual to individual” — her documenting career then surface to a halt. Rodgers mainly pursued stage function in the a long time, starring in Western world End productions of Pump Children and Dinettes and Bloodstream Brothers.