Ronnie Carroll
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Ronnie Carroll (born Ronald Cleghorn, 18 August 1934 – March 13, 2015) was a Northern Ireland singer, entertainer, and political candidate.
Personal life
He met Millicent Martin, his first wife, in Barbados in 1958, and then married in 1969. Following a request from the Inland Revenue, Ronnie Carroll Productions Ltd went into liquidation in 1969. In recent years, he had suffered from gambling losses of up to £170,000.
June Paul, his second wife, was the Olympic runner, and they married on September 21. They owned a successful nightclub in Grenada until the coup took place and the Airport runways were dug up, putting an end to tourism for the first time. When his second marriage to June Paul came to an end, Paul went on to own the "Everyman Cinema" in Hampstead. Carroll went on to marry and divorce his third and final wife, Glenda Kentridge, a South African-born woman. Carroll was declared bankrupt in 1989 for the second time, and at one time, was operating a food stall in Camden Market.
He spent his remaining years in Hampstead, north London, and was a regular caller to BBC London 94.9. He died in London on April 13, 2015, at the age of 80. He was raised by two brothers, with June and a daughter and son, as well as Glenda's children.
Career
Carroll was born Ronald Cleghorn in 1934, the son of a plumber, and Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Ronnie Cleghorn, 19-year-old Ronnie Cleghorn, was attending a variety show at the Town Hall in Portadown in January 1954, billed as Belfast's Nat King Cole and the performance continued to play at many locations throughout Northern Ireland. Cleghorn, a British immigrant, appeared on "Hollywood Stars" at the Queen's in Blackpool in March 1954, where the cast provided glimpses of trans-Atlantic screen stars. In blackface, he performed in the style of Nat King Cole. In May 1954, Cleghorn introduced the stage name "Carroll" and the performance toured the United Kingdom for the next eighteen months. On January 10, 1956, he made his first television appearance on BBC's "Camera One" singing "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing." Philips gave him a recording contract, and his first album, "Last Love," was released on February 1, 1956. Carroll appeared on "New Faces of 1956" in Nottingham, beginning in 1956, and later became a radio show called "Calling All Stars." He was on the bill on many fronts and his album "Walk Hand in Hand" was in the charts later this year.
He is the only artist to have represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest for two years in a row. He won the competition and became Britain's entry in the 1962 competition with the album "Girl with a Curl," and his album "Ring-a-Ding Girl" debuted in third place, the same place he reached in 1963 with "Say Wonderful Things" appears. During 1962 and 1963, this success was followed by two top-ten hits, but a lack of good information meant that he was unable to maintain a chart presence. He appeared on "The Winifred Atwell Show" in 1962. He appeared twice at the Brighton Hippodrome from Monday 17th September 1962, for a week only.
Carroll later performed on cruise ships, including the QE2 with John Marcangelo, Ronnie Carroll Orchestra's drummer. In the 1963 film Blind Corner, he played 'Ronnie,' a pop musician. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he appeared on hit TV shows, including The Morecambe & Wise Show and Sez Les.
Back on Song, a comeback album from 2005, was released.
Political career
Carroll contested his seat in the 1997 UK General Election and Highgate constituency, as well as the Uxbridge by-election in July that year with the Rainbow Alliance. Despite announcing that he was trying to enter the record books by receiving no votes in the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election, he was elected as a candidate for Make Politicians History and received 29 votes.
In the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, he ran as a candidate (under the name 'The Eurovisionary Carroll'). Nominations were closed on 9 April 2015, just four days before his death, but polling day was not until May 7th. He was running as an outsider, so the vote continued; if he had won the election, the vote would have been re-run at a later date. He polled 113 votes to finish sixth out of seven candidates.