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Does away with the fireboy.

Whatever the ultimate source of his fireboy impression, Chanfrau was a gifted impersonator from a young age.

His character Fireboy is voiced by actor Ralf Little, who visited him at home in Borough.

Fireboy is the second solo album by Grant McLennan, a member of The Go-Betweens.

By Fireboy I'll never forget the summer I came home from college, when I was 19, that I learned how much fun steam rooms can be.

A parishioner of St. Andrew's Church, he inspired an urban folklore character of Big Mose (Mose the Fireboy).

The prototypical artistic representation of a b'hoy came in 1848, when Frank Chanfrau played the character Mose the Fireboy in Benjamin A. Baker's A Glance at New York.

They worked together on two single cuts ("Fireboy Meets His Match" and "All Prayers are Answered") for a Japanese shoju television commercial that, although released for a few weeks, was suddenly withdrawn after the singer's brush with heroin.

The single-disc American release stripped off six songs - "Late Afternoon in Early August" and "Ballad of Easy Rider" from the first disc and "Do Your Own Thing" through "Head Over Heels" from the second - while adding on "Lighting Fires" from Fireboy.

He was supposedly the lieutenant and longtime companion to Mose the Fireboy during the 1840s, often the storyteller of his feats, and is credited for coining the phrase "hold 'de but", a common expression used during the mid-to late 19th century meaning to borrow a dead cigar or to "bum a smoke".