Jerry Victor Doucette (9 September 1951 – 18 April 2022) was a Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter. He was noted for his hit single "Mama Let Him Play", which made the Billboard Top 100. His band, Doucette, won the Juno Award for Most Promising Group of the Year in 1979. Early life Doucette was born in Montreal on 9 September 1951. His family relocated to Hamilton, Ontario, when he was four. Two years later, he started playing the guitar after his father purchased one for him. Doucette joined numerous bands prior to his solo career, starting with The Reefers at the age of 11. He later migrated to Toronto by the time he was twenty years old, and played in Buxton Kastle and the final incarnation of Brutus. Career Doucette moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1972 and joined the Seeds of Time, and worked with Lindsay Mitchell and Rocket Norton, both of whom later joined Prism, and Alexis Radlin. After the Seeds of Time, Doucette joined Rocket Norton in The Rocket Norton Band, along with Rick Enns and John Hall. He contributed one song on the band's first single, titled Donkey Chain. He subsequently signed a solo recording deal with Mushroom Records, and commenced recording under his surname only. "Mama Let Him Play", the single from the first Doucette album release of the same name in the fall of 1977, earned platinum status (sales of 100,000 units) in Canada having reached #46 on the charts, plus substantial publicity and tour promotion. The single and record were not successful to the same degree in the United States, though the single charted in the Billboard Top 100 and the album in the Billboard 200. The recording band for the single and album was composed of Duris Maxwell on drums, Brent Shindell on guitar, Don Cummings on bass, and Robbie King on keyboards. The following year's release, The Douce is Loose, was less successful, although it earned gold status (50,000 units sold, #27 on the charts) in Canada, and produced the popular single "Nobody" co-written with Maxwell.(#18 Can.). Mushroom Records eventually succumbed to financial problems in 1980. This left Doucette to find a new label for his third album, Coming up Roses, which was eventually released by Rio Records. This, plus the emergence of new wave music, were blamed for Doucette's lack of follow-up success in the music industry. After a fifteen-year hiatus,