Kerry Chater Dies: Gary Puckett & The Union Gap Co-Founder & Country Songwriter Was 77
deadline.comKerry Chater, the bassist and co-founder of ’60s hitmakers Gary Puckett & the Union Gap who went on to score multiple country hits as a songwriter, has died.
He was 77.Local Nashville paper The Williamson Source said he died February 4 in the Tennessee capital. No cause of death was given.Chater was born on August 7, 1945, in Vancouver and began playing in local bands by the mid-’60s.
When one of his bandmates left to form Iron Butterfly, Chater joined a band fronted by Gary Puckett that would become the Union Gap.
Singed to Columbia, the newly christened Gary Puckett & the Union Gap — sporting matching American Civil War uniforms — found near-immediate success, and their first four singles all went gold hit the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100: “Woman, Woman” (No.
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