Butch Moore

James Augustine "Butch" Moore was an Irish singer and a showband icon during the 1960s. Moore was born in Dublin, Ireland. He achieved celebrity status as Ireland's first contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965 and attracted huge crowds with The Capitol Showband in the State's many ballrooms. Moore was at the height of his success, when he won the National Song Contest to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, in Naples, singing Walking the Streets in the Rain. The song reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart, but failed to chart in the UK. Butch Moore married Norah Sheridan in 1962. They had 3 three children; Karen, Grainne and Gary. 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, with an early songwriter for the band was Phil Coulter. The Capitol Showband achieved a considerable degree of success in the early 1960s. It toured America in 1961, and two years later became the first showband to appear on the new RTÉ television service. The Capitol Showband played in the London Palladium in 1964 on a night when the lineup included Roy Orbison. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_M...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)