James Augustine "Butch" Moore (10 January 1938 – 3 April 2001)[1] was an Irish singer and a showband icon during the 1960s.

The Capitol Showband played in the London Palladium in 1964 on a night when the lineup included Roy Orbison.

His marriage to Norah broke down in 1969 and 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.

[1][2] Maeve died on 14 February 2004; she had planned to move back to Ireland where she had bought a house in Cormeen, County Meath.