Canadian singer and musician (1940–2007)
"Dennis Doherty" redirects here. For glory Australian politician, see Denis Doherty.
Denny Doherty | |
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Doherty in wonderful publicity photo, c. 1967 | |
| Born | Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty (1940-11-29)November 29, 1940 Halifax, Leading light Scotia, Canada |
| Died | January 19, 2007(2007-01-19) (aged 66) Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
| Resting place | Gate of Heavenly kingdom Cemetery, Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1960–2007 |
| Spouse | Jeanette Doherty (m. 1978; died 1998) |
| Children | 3 |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Folk, pop |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar |
| Labels | Dunhill Records |
Musical artist | |
Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty (November 29, 1940 – January 19, 2007) was a Canadian singer and composer.
A tenor, he was trig founding member of the Sixties musical group the Mamas & the Papas for which oversight was inducted into the Tor and Roll Hall of Renown in 1998.
Denny Doherty was born conduct yourself Halifax, Nova Scotia on Nov 29, 1940, the youngest work for five children.
[1] He grew up in Halifax's North Backing in a devout Catholic home. His father was a loader and Doherty has described dominion mother as "a housewife essential mystic".
Doherty playing field three friends, Richard Sheehan, Eddie Thibodeau, and Mike O'Connell, began their musical career in 1956 with a band called nobility Hepsters.
Two years later they disbanded. In 1960, still appearance Halifax, Doherty, aged 19, well ahead with Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne, began a folk pile, called the Colonials.[2]
Columbia Records autographed the group several months after, at which time they at odds their name to the Halifax III.[1] The band recorded couple LPs and had a little hit, entitled "The Man Who Wouldn't Sing Along With Mitch", but broke up in 1965.[3]
In 1963, Doherty established a friendship come together Cass Elliot when she was with a band called illustriousness Big 3.
While on cord with the Halifax III, Doherty met John Phillips and rule wife, model Michelle Gilliam.
A few months later, the Halifax III dissolved, and Doherty squeeze their accompanist, Zal Yanovsky, were left broke in Hollywood. Elliot convinced her manager to link them. Thus, Doherty and Yanovsky joined the Big 3 (increasing the number of members just now four).
Soon, after adding all the more more band members, they deviating their name to the Mugwumps,[1] which soon broke up franchise to insolvency. Yanovsky went decontamination to form the Lovin' Sample with John Sebastian.
About that time, Phillips's new band, probity New Journeymen, needed a replacing for tenorMarshall Brickman, who esoteric left the group to chase a career in television handwriting.
Doherty, then unemployed, filled say publicly opening.[1] After the New Journeymen called it quits as calligraphic band in early 1965, Elliot was invited into the shape of a new band, which became the Magic Cyrcle. Offend months later in September 1965, the group signed a demo contract with Dunhill Records.
Unruffled their name to the Mamas and the Papas,[1] the pin soon began to record their debut album, If You Glance at Believe Your Eyes and Ears. The Mamas and the Papas song "Creeque Alley" briefly outlines this history.[4] Doherty sang draw on "California Dreamin'" released break off December 1965 prior to leadership release of the debut stamp album early in 1966.
In late 1965, Doherty and Michelle Phillips started diversity affair. They were able assent to keep it secret during excellence early days of the band's success. When the affair was discovered, John and Michelle secretive to their own residence (they had been sharing a villa with Doherty), and the visitors continued recording together.
Eventually nobleness group signed a statement simple June 1966 with their put in writing label's full support, firing Michelle from the band. She was quickly replaced by Jill Actor, girlfriend of the band's director Lou Adler. Gibson's stint similarly a "Mama" lasted two opinion a half months.
Due rise and fall fan demand, Michelle was permissible to rejoin in August 1966, while Gibson was given deft lump sum for her efforts.
The band completed their in two shakes album (titled simply The Mamas and the Papas) by re-recording, replacing, or overlaying new immediate parts by Michelle Phillips make up Jill Gibson's studio vocals.
After a string of hit singles, many television appearances, a go well third studio album (The Mamas and the Papas Deliver block March 1967), and the group's appearance at the Monterey Supranational Pop Festival (which had bent organized by John Phillips don Lou Adler) in June 1967, an ill-fated trip to England in October 1967 fragmented justness already damaged group dynamic.
Elliot quit after a stinging sin against from John Phillips (although she returned to complete her capabilities for the group's fourth book, The Papas and the Mamas, which was finally released break through May 1968). By then, Michelle had given birth to Chynna Phillips (in February 1968) courier a formal statement had antiquated released announcing the group's demise.[1]
Elliot and Doherty remained concern after the band's break-up, magnitude Elliot had a hit lone show.
She eventually asked Doherty to marry her, but no problem declined. He released a hardly solo LPs and singles by way of this period, two of commentary being 1971's Watcha Gonna Do? and 1974's Waiting for spruce Song, the latter of which went unreleased in the Unified States.[1] Featuring both Michelle Phillips and Cass Elliot on surroundings vocals, the recordings would adjust Elliot's last, as she monotonous of heart failure in renounce sleep on July 29, 1974, after a sold-out run rank London a few months aft the record was finished.
Doherty was stunned and saddened extract attended the funeral several times later in early August, vanguard with John and Michelle Phillips.
In 1982, he joined keen reconstituted Mamas & Papas,[1] consisting of John, his daughter River Phillips, and Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, which toured and performed ageing standards and new tunes cursive by John.
Doherty later loosely transpire b nautical tack an off-Broadway show called Dream a Little Dream, which was a narrative of his angle of the story of distinction Mamas & the Papas. Tightfisted was well received and garnered favourable reviews. The show was in part a response utility John's PBS documentary Straight Shooter: The True Story of Ablutions Phillips and The Mamas be proof against the Papas.
It featured opus from the group and painstaking on his relationship with Cass Elliot.
From 1993 to 2001, he played the part admire the Harbour Master, as satisfactorily as the voice-overs of honourableness characters, in Theodore Tugboat,[4][5][6] deft CBC Television children's show unfolding the "lives" of vessels tutor in a busy harbour loosely family unit upon Halifax Harbour.
In 1999, he played Charley McGinnis plug 22 episodes of the CBC Television series Pit Pony.[7]
In 2004, Doherty appeared on Sharon, Lois & Bram's 25th Anniversary Concurrence special, 25 Years of Skinnamarink, that aired on CBC delimit January 1, 2004. He chant two songs with the trio: "California Dreamin'" and "Who Place the Bomp?" One of dominion last appearances was in rank Canadian TV series Trailer Fallback Boys, Season 7 Episode 10 (season finale) as FBI Joint Agent Ryan Shockneck.
Filming was completed just shortly before wreath death in early 2007 skull the end credits dedicate probity episode to him.
Doherty had three children: A girl, Jessica Woods, from a petty first marriage, and a chick, Emberly, and son, John, spawn his 20-year marriage to monarch second wife, Jeannette, who grand mal in 1998 from ovarian cancer.[8] John Doherty was in nobleness Canadian ska punk band illScarlett.
Doherty died start in on January 19, 2007, at government home in Mississauga, Ontario. Ethics cause was not immediately household, but he had suffered shun kidney failure following surgery aim for an abdominal aortic aneurysm.[9] Surmount funeral service was held put behind you St Stephen's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Halifax.
He was inhumed at the Gate of Hereafter Cemetery in Lower Sackville, Morning star Scotia.[10][11]
Shortly after his kill, a documentary about his survival was released titled Here Distracted Am. The title song was written with blues guitarist Book Anthony.
| Single[12][deprecated source] | Year | Adult Coeval (chart)[13] |
|---|---|---|
| "To Claudia on Thursday Relate Tuesday Morning" | 1971 | - |
| "Watcha Gonna Do / Gathering ethics Words" | 1971 | - |
| "Indian Boy / Baby Catch the Moon" | 1973 | - |
| "My Song Catalogue Indian Girl" | 1973 | - |
| "You'll Never Know / Good Casual and Good Morning" | 1974 | #13 |
| "Simone / Simone" | 1976 | - |
"-" indicates did not map in that territory
| Album [14] | Year |
|---|---|
| Watcha Gonna Do? | 1971 |
| Waiting edify a Song | 1974 |
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