Few white pop-rock songwriters of the 1950s and '60s started out as miserably as Jerome Felder. Polio-stricken at age 7, Felder was placed in body casts and then an iron lung before he wound up in leg ...

Jerome Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, “was a white boy hooked on the blues.” With a life story that sounds tragic on paper – contracting polio at 6, ultimately dying of lung cancer and resorting to gambling ...

Of the many lyricists who co-wrote rock ’n’ roll songs in the 1950s and early ’60s, few had more personal experience with heartache and grief than Doc Pomus. After contracting polio as a 6-year-old in ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. His name would spin around and around on the vinyl, the writer of a thousand songs: Doc Pomus. As the ...

Paralyzed by polio as a child and confined to crutches and a wheel chair, Doc Pomus, a white Jewish Brooklynite born Jerome Felder, becomes an unlikely blues singer performing in various musical ...

Everyone knows his songs: “This Magic Moment,” “Viva Las Vegas,” “Teenager in Love,” and “Save the Last Dance for Me.” His friends included John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Lou Reed. His list of mentored ...

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PUTNEY -- It's very simple: You know his songs, but you don't know about him ... and he's worth getting to know. He wrote or co-wrote "Save the Last Dance for Me," "A Teenager in Love," "Viva Las ...

Enjoy this soulful take on Doc Pomus' "Lonely Avenue"—a song immortalized by Ray Charles, the patron saint of Jon Batiste's musical world. To make this single an even more compelling preview of his ...

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