Denny Doherty's Birth Card: The 4 of Hearts

In the record

Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty (November 29, 1940 – January 19, 2007) was a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician. The birth-card coordinate for November 29 is the 4 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1998 Performers with The Mamas & the Papas induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1998 Performers — inducted member of The Mamas & the Papas

The 4 of Hearts coordinate

Denny Doherty's birthday maps to the 4 of Hearts (The Emotional Foundation Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Denny Doherty. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a home people can count on, and you leave enough air for feeling to move.

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Denny Doherty in the public record

A tenor, 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. Denny Doherty was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on November 29, 1940, the youngest of five children. He grew up in Halifax's North End in a devout Roman Catholic household. His father was a dockworker and Doherty has described his mother as "a housewife and mystic". Doherty and three friends, Richard Sheehan, Eddie Thibodeau, and Mike O'Connell, began their musical career in 1956 with a band called the Hepsters. Two years later they disbanded. In 1960, still in Halifax, Doherty, aged 19, along with Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne, began a folk group, called the Colonials. Columbia Records signed the group several months later, at which time they changed their name to the Halifax III.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Denny Doherty (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 4 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Denny Doherty, and not a forecast of induction.

Building reliable emotional foundations and trust

Denny Doherty was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on November 29, 1940, the youngest of five children.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: children.

Also on the record

1. The band recorded two LPs and had a minor hit titled "The Man Who Wouldn't Sing Along With Mitch", but broke up in 1965.
2. In 1963, Doherty established a friendship with Cass Elliot when she was with a band called the Big 3.
3. While on tour with the Halifax III, Doherty met John Phillips and his wife, model Michelle Gilliam.
4. A few months later, the Halifax III dissolved, and Doherty and their accompanist, Zal Yanovsky, were left broke in Hollywood.

Other inductees with this card

• Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz — 2012 Performers with Beastie Boys
• David Knopfler — 2018 Performers with Dire Straits
• Felix Cavaliere — 1997 Performers with The (Young) Rascals
• Michael Dempsey — 2019 Performers with The Cure
• Mick Jones — 2024 Performers with Foreigner
• Mike Pinder — 2018 Performers with The Moody Blues

FAQ

What is Denny Doherty's birth card?

The 4 of Hearts. November 29 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Denny Doherty's dates come from?

Birth date 1940-11-29 is the day-precision date on Denny Doherty's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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