Background
He was born James Augustine Moore in Dublin and was a showband icon during the 1960s.
He was born James Augustine Moore in Dublin and was a showband icon during the 1960s.
The song reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart, but failed to chart in the United Kingdom. He played with a number of bands before securing his big break with the Capitol Showband in 1958. Its line-up included band leader, Des Kelly, and Paddy Cole, who is still involved in the entertainment business, and an early songwriter for the band was Philosophy Coulter. lieutenant toured America in 1961, and two years later became the first showband to appear on the new RTÉ television service.
The Capitol played in the London Palladium in 1964 on a night when the lineup included Roy Orbison.
As the lead singer with the Capitol Showband, he rivalled the Royal Showband"s Brendan Bowyer as Ireland"s most popular showband vocalist. When his career went into a decline, he emigrated to the United States in 1970, where he spent the last 31 years of his life.
Butch Moore married Irish ballad singer Maeve Mulvany (born 1945) in 1972 in the United States. They formed a very successful group known as "Butch North Maeve" with a mixture of ballads and popular.
They also owned a public in Massachusetts named after a song they sang "The Parting Glass".
They had three children, Rory, Tara and Thomas. Butch died of a heart attack on 3 April 2001 and Maeve on 14 February 2004. She had planned to move back to Ireland where she had bought a house in Cormeen, County Meath.