Clodagh Rodgers
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Clodagh Rodgers (born March 5, 1947, in Ballymena) is a Northern Irish singer probably best known for her hit "Jack in the Box," the United Kingdom's entry in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest. The song is also a running joke in the "Cycling Tour" episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Clodagh shot to fame in 1969 with two Top 3 chart hits "Come Back and Shake Me" and "Goodnight Midnight" which resulted in her being the best selling female singles artist of that year. "Biljo", "Everybody go home" and "Lady Love Bug" continued her chart success in the next few years.
Despite the Eurovision tag, Clodagh has had a varied and successful career - on Irish TV 'The Clodagh Rodgers Show' won an award at the Golden Rose TV festival in Montreux, and Clodagh starred in many variety shows including Seaside Special for the BBC (she hosted the first ever show from Great Yarmouth) and The Two Ronnies- and indeed on stage where she has starred in London's West End in her own show at the Talk of the Town (breaking Sammy Davis, Jr.'s box office record), in "Cinderella" at the Palladium(again breaking box office records) and two musicals (to date) "Pump Boys and Dinettes" at the Piccadilly and Albery, and "Blood Brothers" at the Phoenix. She also appeared in the UK tour of "Blood Brothers" between 1995-1998. She says she would like to do more musicals,
She realised an ambition in appearing in "The Morecambe and Wise Show", both on TV and radio.