Introduction
Jonathan Paul Hodge (26 January 1941 – 7 July 2019) was a British composer who wrote more than 2,000 jingles for TV and radio, including the Shake n' Vac tune.
Life and career
Hodge was born in London in 1941.
Jonathan wrote the scores for Villain (1971), featuring Richard Burton, and Great (1975), an Oscar-winning animated musical documentary about engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel directed by Bob Godfrey. He also wrote and produced Fiddley Foodle Bird (1991), a children’s animated series for the BBC narrated by Bruce Forsyth, wrote pop music and had a No.3 hit in 1978 with "If I Had Words", which was actually written by Camille Saint Saen who composed and wrote the lyrics of this song, sung by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley. The song sold millions worldwide.
He died on 7 July 2019 at the age of 78 at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent from multiple organ failure.