![]() The band recorded two LPs and had a minor hit, entitled "The Man Who Wouldn't Sing Along With Mitch", but broke up in 1965. Ĭolumbia Records signed the group several months later, at which time they changed their name to the Halifax III. In 1960, still in Halifax, Doherty, aged 19, along with Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne, began a folk group, called the Colonials. ![]() His father was a dockworker and Doherty has described his mother as "a housewife and mystic".ĭoherty and three friends, Richard Sheehan, Eddie Thibodeau, and Mike O'Connell, began their musical career in 1956 with a band called the Hepsters. ![]() He grew up in Halifax's North End in a devout Catholic household. He was a founding member of the 1960s musical group the Mamas & the Papas for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.ĭenny Doherty was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the youngest of five children. Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty (Novem – January 19, 2007) was a Canadian musician. ![]()
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