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Jerome Solon Felder (June 27, 1925 – March 14, 1991), known professionally as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1992, the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), and the Blues ...
This is a list of songs written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, either together as a songwriting partnership, with other writers, or individually.
YearSong [1]Original Artist [1]U.s. Pop [2]1957"Love Roller Coaster"-1958"White Bucks and Saddle Shoes"741959"I'm a Man"311959"Plain Jane"38Nov 21, 2013 · Excerpts from a never-released interview with legendary songwriter Doc Pomus. He recounts the story of how "Save the Last Dance for Me" almost died as a "B" side for the Drifters in Fall of...
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Oct 24, 2013 · Doc Pomus, pictured here in the 1980s, was an obscure, yet prolific songwriter who died in 1991. A.K.A. Doc Pomus is a documentary about his life.
Jan 31, 2022 · Countless newly-weds will have danced to “Save the Last Dance for Me”, but a poignant irony of this classic pop song is that the man who wrote those words did not. Doc Pomus contracted...
Doc Pomus (born Jan. 27, 1925, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died March 14, 1991, New York) was an American songwriter who teamed with Mort Shuman to write some of the most memorable rock and pop songs in the Brill Building style of the early 1960s.
Born Jerome Solon Felder in 1925 in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, he became Doc Pomus in part to shield his middle-class family from his nocturnal activities as a rhythm and blues shouter. For it was as a singer, braced on crutches (Pomus contracted polio at age six), that he entered the world of music which was to become his life.
