Real name: Claude J. Moye

Effective period / Period of releases: 1929 - 1935

(1906 - 1988) Stage name of American composer Claud Moye (Claude W. Moye) in the comedic duo Pie Plant Pete and Bashful Harmonica Joe (see Joseph Troyan alias Bashful Harmonica Joe.

Learned to play guitar as a child and in his early teens, added harmonica. In 1927, with a considerable repertoire of the old-time songs his mother sang, he relocated to Chicago and made his professional debut on WLS on 5 May. Using a frame, he played harmonica and guitar together, calling the combination his ‘two-cylinder cob-crusher’. He called himself Pie Plant Pete (for comedy reasons) and soon proved popular with WLS listeners.