Denny Doherty has died...

[Jesse Joe]

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Denny Doherty...


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Denny Doherty, a former member of The Mamas and Papas, poses on stage prior to performing in his show at the Village Theater in New York, April 7, 2003. Doherty died Friday. (AP/Robert Spencer)


Denny Doherty, the Canadian member of the Mamas and Papas, has died



Published Friday January 19th, 2007


MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - Denny Doherty, the Canadian member of the Mamas and the Papas folk group, has died.

He was 66.

His sister Frances Arnold says the singer-songwriter in the popular '60s group died earlier today at his home in Mississauga after a short illness.

The Halifax-born Doherty led the group onto the charts with hits including "Monday, Monday," "California Dreamin," "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and "Dedicated to the One I Love."

He started his music career in Montreal in 1960 as the co-founder of the Colonials, which later became the Halifax Three.

In the mid-'60s, Time magazine called the Mamas and the Papas one of the top two bands in America and the band was inducted into the Rock and Role Hall of Fame.

Doherty was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996.

In addition to his singing career, Doherty is known for his work on the children's TV series Theodore Tugboat.




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The Mamas & The Papas...

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[Auburn Annie]

So sorry to hear that - always enjoyed his/their music. That just leaves Michelle, right?

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[Cathy]

That's right, Annie. She's the last surviving member. Sad.......

[charlene]

http://www.dennydoherty.com/

[Jesse Joe]

Saturday, January 20th, 2007 Loaded: 9:43:11 AM AST



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Denny Doherty, the Halifax-born singer-songwriter who was a former member of The Mamas and the Papas, died yesterday at his home in Mississauga, Ont


Singer Denny Doherty dies, 66

Published Saturday January 20th, 2007


Halifax-born Denny Doherty was remembered Friday as the "angelic voice" that carried the '60s folk group the Mamas and the Papas through such memorable hits as "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday."

Doherty died early yesterday at his home in suburban Mississauga after suffering an aneurysm in his abdomen, said his sister Frances Arnold. He was 66.

"Everybody used to think that John Phillips, who wrote the songs, was also the main voice of the group, but it wasn't - it was the angelic voice of Denny Doherty," said Larry Leblanc, Canadian editor of Billboard Magazine.

"He was often overlooked but it was really his voice that carried the group."

The group's hits also included "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and "Dedicated to the One I Love." Doherty co-wrote the songs "I Saw Her Again Last Night" and "Got a Feelin.' "

Despite being together for just three tumultuous years marked by drug use and destructive love triangles, the Mamas and the Papas had 10 hit singles over five albums. The band broke up in 1968 amid internal squabbling.

Doherty, along with (Mama) Cass Elliot and John and Michelle Phillips, sold an estimated 20 million records.

In 1974 the 30-year-old Elliot suffered a fatal heart attack. John Phillips, the group's chief songwriter, died in 2001 at age 65.

"What made the group special was their haunting and sumptuous harmony singing," according to "The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll."

Kim Cook of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences compared Doherty to other top performers of the time.

"He was one of a group of Canadians of that era that would have included Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and others who were heading to the U.S. to make music and in some cases, fame and fortune," Cook said.

"He's an artist that, in terms of career accomplishments perhaps didn't rank with some of those artists but still had a fine career and really was a key component in some absolutely vital and compelling music."

Doherty started his music career in Montreal in 1960 as the co-founder of the Colonials, which later became the Halifax Three.

He launched an acting career in the '70s and appeared on Broadway in the 1974 play "Man on the Moon." Later in Halifax, he joined John Neville at the Neptune Theatre where he was in "The Taming of the Shrew," "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Cabaret."

The Mama and Papas had a short-lived comeback in 1982, adding two new faces to the classic group. John's daughter MacKenzie Phillips and Elaine (Spanky) McFarlane.




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Denny Doherty, left, sings with Michelle Phillips and her ex-husband John Phillips during taping of a segment of his half-hour television series, Denny's Show.
Doherty was involved in a number of musical projects, including an autobiographical musical, "Dream a Little Dream," which premiered in Toronto in 2001.

He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996.

Doherty also dabbled in television, playing the role of the affable harbourmaster in the children's TV series "Theodore Tugboat."

The show, originally produced in Halifax by CBC, featured a cast of small, radio-controlled tugboats. Doherty provided the narration and the voices for all the characters.

Though the backdrop for the show was known as the Big Harbour, the model set - complete with a huge water tank - was actually a fairly accurate rendering of Halifax harbour.

The show attracted a huge following among its young fans in the mid-1990s when it appeared on CBC and later on PBS, the non-profit public broadcaster in the United States.

Every show featured Doherty's musical, mellifluous voice telling the stories of Theodore the tugboat and his friends, many of whom were named after places in Atlantic Canada.

Doherty suffered kidney problems following surgery Dec. 14 and was put on dialysis, Arnold said. He was released from hospital last week, and Arnold said he sounded tired when she spoke with him just days ago.

"It's got an unreal quality to it, I just can't get it through my head," Arnold, 78, said by phone from Halifax. "We weren't expecting it."

She said Doherty was depressed about his decline in health, and had been making plans for an adventurous boat trip across the Atlantic.

"He was a very energetic, busy active person and it was hard for him to make that adjustment, I think," she said.

Arnold says the first time her mother heard Doherty on the radio it was him singing "California Dreamin'."

"My mother stood in the kitchen and cried," she says.

Doherty, who was married twice, is survived by his siblings Frances, Joe, Denise and Joan and children John, Emberly and Jessica. Both of his wives predeceased him.

Funeral arrangements have yet to be made, Arnold said

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[Borderstone]

Before Dennis and Cass Elliot became part of the Mama's & the Papa's,they were in a little known group called,"The Mugwumps".

They had a single called,"I'll Remember Tonight" & B side,"I Don't Wanna Know". This was not a hit but it's a 45 in my colection. The group also consisted of future Lovin' Spoonful member John Sebastian and his guitarist from that group.

It's sad that those three are now gone but let's pray Michelle lives for a much longer time.

Rest in peace Dennis,and thank you (and your cohorts)for Monday,Monday;California Dreaming and all the rest.

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[charlene]

He died of an aneurisym.
http://www.thestar.com/article/173096

and

http://www.thestar.com/article/173465

from The Toronto Star:

DOHERTY, Dennis

DOHERTY, Dennis  Died Friday, January 19, 2007, at his home in Mississauga, after complications from surgery. His father was a plumber, but he had bad pipes. He's off to meet his late wife Jeanette and will be missed by his devoted children Emberly, John and Jessica, his brother Joseph, sisters Franny, Guzzie and Dee Dee, all his extended family and those who loved his music. Visitation will be held at the funeral home of Skinner & Middlebrook Ltd., 128 Lakeshore Rd. E. (one block west of Hurontario St.), Mississauga on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 from 3-7 p.m. Interment will take place in Nova Scotia. An entertainer right to the end. Love You Pops.

[Cathy]

An abdominal aneurysm. Sound familiar, folks?

[Jesse Joe]

Denny Doherty funeral held today in Halifax... 01/27/2007


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Denny Doherty...


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Michelle Phillips...


Michelle Phillips says it feels odd to be the last surviving member of the Mamas and the Papas.

She hasn't been in Halifax for 30 years, but is back in town to remember her longtime friend Denny Doherty at his funeral today.

The former member of the legendary '60s folk-rock band says she probably won't sing at the service.

And if not for the influence of a "very persuasive" Doherty, she wouldn't have sung at the 2001 memorial service for her ex-husband and chief Mamas and Papas songwriter John Phillips either.

"There was nothing you wouldn't do for (Denny)," said Phillips as she sat in her Halifax hotel room yesterday. He gently coaxed me into getting up and singing at John's memorial, which I really did not want to do and I was really not going to do. I put my foot down and said, 'I'm not going to go on stage.' "Denny talked to me for four minutes and I was onstage. He was very persuasive, very gentle and sweet."

Phillips will give a eulogy at Doherty's funeral at St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church.

Doherty, 66, died at his home in Mississauga, Ont., on Jan. 19 of complications from surgery.

The singer, born in Halifax's north end, had surgery on Dec. 14 after suffering an aneurysm in his abdomen.

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[charlene]

update - pics:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2007/01/27/doherty-funeral.html
Mamas and Papas' Doherty remembered for humour, angelic voice
Last Updated: Saturday, January 27, 2007 | 1:16 PM ET
CBC Arts
Michelle Phillips, the last surviving member of the 1960s band the Mamas and the Papas, recalled band mate Denny Doherty as a man of humour and gentility at his funeral in Halifax.

"Denny had a blisteringly funny sense of humour — that Irish charm, that intelligence — that drew people to him for life," Phillips told hundreds who attended the service at St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church in the north-end Halifax neighbourhood Doherty grew up in.

Family, close friends and members of the music, acting and theatre community gathered for a few hours to memorialize the 66-year-old musician.

The singer died Jan. 19 at his home in Mississauga, Ont., after having surgery due to an aneurysm in his abdomen.

Doherty was 'one of the greatest tenors in rock 'n' roll'
—Michelle Phillips, ex-band memberPhillips, who did not sing at the funeral, told the Halifax Chronicle-Herald newspaper that Doherty was "one of the greatest tenors in rock 'n' roll" and "one of the kindest, dearest and most beloved people ever."

The influential band, which broke up in 1968, brought a unique sound to the musical universe with songs such as California Dreamin', Dedicated to the One I Love, I Saw Her Again Last Night, Dream a Little Dream of Me and Monday, Monday.

Playwright Paul Ledoux recalled the singer as a "charming man with a voice that … melts your heart." Ledoux and other friends said Doherty's voice was angelic, matching his personality.

"Denny was a lovely man. I liked this world a lot better when he was walking on it," said Pat LaCroix, a member of Doherty's first band The Halifax Three.

The 62-year-old Phillips said she kept in regular touch with her ex-band mate and had just spoken to him a day before he died.

"I really thought he was out of the woods and so did he."

Doherty's ego 'never got in the way'
Doherty's sister, Frances Arnold, recalled the first time their mother heard him on the radio. California Dreamin' had just hit the airwaves and she decided to call the local radio station to request it in order for their mother to hear it.

"She cried in the kitchen, and I cried with her. He was alive and on his way," said Arnold.

Phillips said it feels strange to be the last member of the band still alive. Phillips sang at the 2001 memorial service for her ex-husband, John Phillips, who was also the group's chief songwriter. Band mate Cass Elliot died in 1974 of a heart attack.
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Michelle Phillips, the last surviving member of the Mamas and the Papas, attends Doherty's funeral at a Halifax church on Saturday.
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Phillips, who flew into Halifax on Thursday, said Doherty had special qualities. "He was very persuasive, very gentle and sweet …. There was nothing you wouldn't do for [him]."

A consummate performer, Doherty would continue to entertain, playing the harbour master on the children's television show Theodore Tugboat, acting in plays and television shows, and playing the main storyteller in The Needfire, a Canadian-Celtic musical performed at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto.

He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996.

"He worked and worked all the time. His ego never got in the way. He loved to work," said Phillips.

Most important, she said her friend would probably like to be remembered as a good husband and father.

Doherty is survived by his two daughters and son. His wife of 20 years, Jeannette, died in 1998 of cancer.

[Jesse Joe]

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[Jesse Joe]

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[Jesse Joe]

Late singer's Theodore Tugboat jacket sold at auction for $250



Monday February 5th, 2007


A simple, navy jacket believed to be worn by Halifax native Denny Doherty on the children's television program "Theodore Tugboat" fetched $250 at a Nova Scotia auction yesterday.

Doherty, who died more than two weeks ago at the age of 66, is also known as a member of the '60s folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas.

The jacket, which was auctioned off in Windsor, was worn by Doherty when he played the friendly harbourmaster on "Theodore Tugboat" in the 1990s, said auctioneer Margie Carter.

Bidding on the jacket, which is made of wool and features gold stripes on its sleeves, began at $150.

Carter said while about 600 people came to the auction, only three placed bids on the jacket.

"There was a ton of people here, but a lot of people were here looking at it and I think it was just the oddity of it - they wanted to see what it looked like," said Carter.

"I was a little disappointed that that's all it brought. I thought for someone with (Doherty's) stature, it should have brought more than that."

The winning bidder was Allan Singer of Halifax, who said he's a big fan of the Mamas and the Papas.

"I was surprised it went for that. Very shocked," Singer said. "I'm quite happy."

Carter said while she was surprised the jacket didn't sell for more, she said the seller - Halifax entrepreneur Bill Mont - was happy with the final price.

Mont initially bought the jacket after finding it in a box of costumes when the show's production office was shutting down.

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