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Thread #37146   Message #1799905
Posted By: GUEST
02-Aug-06 - 01:20 PM
Thread Name: Maeve Mulvany - name ring a bell?
Subject: RE: Maeve Mulvany?
Hi there
Maeve Mulvany Moore was my sister, she was known as irelands "Queen of Ballads" and performed here in Ireland until 1969 when she emigrated to the USA with Irish pop chart topper Butch Moore who was Irelands first entry in the Eurovision Song Contest with "Walking the Streets in the Rain", performed in Naples, Italy coming 6th in 1965.
Millionaire Bill Fuller asked them to perform in the US in '69. The sang for Ted Kennedy for years at his election rallies, Nixon at the White House. Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Mechanics Hall,Worcester,in Springfield Mass. and many other concert halls from Maine to Texas,where Maeve sang with Johnny Cash she also became a very good friend of crooner,Perry Como and former actress Arliene Dahl. She died after falling down srairs during icey conditions in Sutton Mass.
Tony Mulvany