Denny Doherty

Denny Doherty was a Canadian singer and musician who, as a founding member of the Mamas and the Papas, entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the group in 1998. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he began his career in the 1950s with local groups such as the Hepsters and later the Colonials, which Columbia Records signed and renamed the Halifax III. After the Halifax III broke up, he moved through the Mugwumps and the New Journeymen before becoming a member of the Mamas and the Papas, where he sang lead on California Dreamin'. He later released solo albums, including Watcha Gonna Do? in 1971 and Waiting for a Song in 1974, and produced the off-Broadway show Dream a Little Dream. On television, he played the Harbour Master and voiced characters on Theodore Tugboat from 1993 to 2001, and he appeared on Pit Pony and Trailer Park Boys.