Gary Rosen and Bill Shontz met in New York City in the early 1970s and formed the folk-flavored duo Rosenshontz in 1974.
[1] Modestly successful as a grown-up act, Rosenshontz got its big break when a kids' song the pair had written was featured on TV's Captain Kangaroo.
[citation needed] Now children's entertainers, Rosen and Shontz moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1977 and released their first album, Tickles You!, in 1980.
By 1983, the group was famous enough to play the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Five more albums and several videos followed, but the early 1990s recession led to fewer bookings[2] and they parted ways as a duo[when?].
[3] He and his family continued to tour, taking center stage at Boston’s First Night celebration.