Denny Doherty

Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician. He was most widely known as a founding member of the 1960s musical group The Mamas amp the Papas.

Denny Doherty was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Doherty started his musical career in Halifax in 1956 with a band called the Hepsters. With friends Richard Sheehan, Eddie Thibodeau and Mike OConnell, the Hepsters played at clubs in the Halifax area. The band lasted about two years. Sheehan recalls that they drew crowds wherever they went due to Dennys incredible voice. In 1960, at the age of 19, Doherty, along with Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne, began a folk group called The Colonials in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When they got a record deal with Columbia Records, they changed their name to The Halifax Three. The band recorded two LPs and had a minor hit, The Man Who Wouldnt Sing Along With Mitch, but broke up in 1963. Coincidentally, they separated at a hotel called The Colonial in Los Angeles.

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