Julie Rogers

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Julie Rogers started her professional career with the TEDDY FOSTER ORCHESTRA. She sang with the band for two seasons at Butlins, Filey, UK. Building on her success she formed a double act with Ted, a la Louis Prima and Keely Smith and toured all the American bases throughout Europe. This was a great grounding for her and really taught her the business.

They did this for about eighteen months, by which time Ted suggested that Julie should go solo and took her to see Johnny Franz at Philips Records (now Phonogram). Johnny immediately said that he was going to sign her up and in April of 1964 she signed a five-year agreement.

Her first record, ‘It’s Magic’ introduced her to radio and TV stations. Her second record, ‘The Wedding’, was a worldwide number one and has sold in the region of 15 million copies to date . . . and is still selling. Of course, this opened up the world to her and she has been touring ever since.

With the success of her first hit she was in demand to appear on television shows. She appeared as a guest artiste in every major show, such as ‘Sunday Night At The Palladium’ in the early days and guested with Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper and many other superstars. Julie has also presented music shows for the BBC and continued to be a regular on our screens.

Subsequently, she had three more hits ‘Like A Child’, ‘Hawaiian Wedding’ and ‘In My Room’.