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This page is a tribute to the late,great Butch Moore. In his native Dublin,16-year-old guitarist and singer Butch Moore began his climb up the musical ladder.From playing parish hall shows solo,to playing small clubs with rock,pop and jazz groups,he became the resident singer in the national ballroom and from here,one year later was chosen to be the lead singer with the all-star capitol showband.Butch and the capitol broke attendance records all over Ireland,Great Britain and throughout Europe. In 1965,Butch won the first irish national song contest,and as irelands first ever entry into the Eurovision song contest,was watched by 200 million viewers around Europe. He had 12 songs in irelands Top Ten and appeared in over 100 TV shows in one 12 month period in Ireland,Scotland,England,Germany and Italy. His concert venues include the London palladium,the royal albert hall,the national stadium Dublin,Cork opera house,kings hall Belfast,the concert hall of free Berlin and many more throughout Europe. Butch moved to the US where he continued to play,sing and record with his wife Maeve Mulvany "the folk queen of the 60's". They played the Kennedy centre,Washinton DC,Carnegie hall,NYC, mechanics hall,worcester and many other concert venues from maine to texas. Butch passed away on 3rd april 2001 .

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Sounds Like: THIS IS A NEWS ITEM FROM AN IRISH PAPER ;Theresa's memories of Butch Moore General NewsTHERESA O'Donnell's poetry writing as a young teenager made Eurovision history for Ireland and the late Butch Moore an internationally known singer.This week the Suncroft woman looked back on how her poem Walking The Streets in the Rain became such a major success and how her scribbling led to meeting her pin-up idol, Butch Moore and becoming friends with the singer. "I was 16 when I wrote it and it qualifying for the Irish Eurovision didn't cut much with me until I was told my idol, Butch Moore was singing it. To me that is what he was like, like Westlife is to the 14 and 15-year-olds today," adds Theresa.Butch's passing last week came as a terrible shock to Theresa who says she spent days crying at the loss of a man who became her friend and stayed one, even though he moved to live in the US.Theresa has very special memories of that Ireland participation in Naples and of how her friendship developed with Butch. "I can't really remember when I met him the first time because I was shaking. He was a very quiet and inoffensive man but he was in a worse state than me because he was afraid he would let Ireland down."His return to Ireland, after coming fourth, was greeted by crowds in Dublin airport. While Theresa wrote the words toWalking The Streets in the Rain , the melody was composed by Newbridge men George Prendergast and Joe Harrigan. They were members of the Curragh Army Band and a friend Anne Rice, now Coogan, passed on some of Theresa's poems to them through her dad Pat Rice, who was also a band member. Theresa recalls Joe Harrigan had the greatest input into the song and she was delighted when she first heard her poem put to music.Since then Theresa has written over 40 successful songs and with her son, Pierce. They won the Cavan International Song contest once and came second on another occasion. The win brought a phonecall from the US from Butch to congratulate them.
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