Jonathan Hodge

Jonathan Philip 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.

He 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 (1992), 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", sung by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley, for which he wrote the lyrics. The song sold millions worldwide.

He died from multiple organ failure on 7 July 2019, aged 78, at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent.