Artist	Song
Doc Pomus	My Good Pott (Pomus)
Big Joe Turner	Boogie Woogie Country Girl (Ashby, Pomus)
Ray Charles	Lonely Avenue (Pomus)
Big Joe Turner	Still in Love (Pomus)
Ray Charles	Carryin' the Load (Pomus, Shuman)
Bobby Darin	Plain Jane (Pomus, Shuman)
Dion & the Belmonts	A Teenager in Love (Pomus, Shuman)
The Flamingos	Your Other Love (Pomus, Shuman)
The Mystics	Hushabye (Pomus, Shuman)
The Drifters	This Magic Moment (Pomus, Shuman)
Elvis Presley	Surrender (Pomus, Shuman)
Delbert McClinton	Mess of Blues (Pomus, Shuman)
Elvis Presley	(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame (Pomus, Shuman)
The Drifters	Save the Last Dance for Me (Pomus, Shuman)
Terry Stafford	Suspicion (Pomus, Shuman)
Elvis Presley	She's Not You (Pomus, Leiber, Stoller)
Martha & the Vandellas	Can't Get Used to Losing You (Pomus, Shuman)
The Searchers	Sweets for My Sweet (Pomus, Shuman)
The Beatles	Young Blood (Leiber, Pomus, Stoller)
Rosanne Cash	I Count the Tears (Pomus, Shuman)
Dwight Yoakam	Little Sister (Pomus, Shuman)
Billy Swan	Viva Las Vegas (Pomus, Shuman)
New York Dolls	Seven Day Weekend (Pomus, Shuman)
Katie Webster	Love Deluxe (Pomus, Rebennack)
Ruth Brown	A World I Never Made (Pomus, Rebennack)
B.B. King	There Must Be a Better World Somewhere (Pomus, Rebennack)
Dr. John	Average Kind of Guy (Pomus, Rebennack)
Johnny Adams	There is Always One More Time (Hirsch, Pomus)

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"Doc was a great songwriter, poet, philanthropist, gambler and raconteur supreme. He was a blazing sun, an exploding star and anybody in his orbit benefitted from him." - Lou Reed.
Sax player, blues singer, professional gambler, but most notably, one of the great songwriters of the rock 'n' roll era -- indeed, of the history of American popular music. Doc Pomus began by writing R&B hits for the likes of Big Joe Turner and Ray Charles and along the way, he helped to invent rock & roll.
Doc was born Jerome Solon Felder on June 27, 1925 in Brooklyn. Crippled by polio as a child, he became interested in singing blues and writing songs after being knocked out by a Big Joe Turner record. He began playing sax and singing in Greenwich Village clubs as a teenager, adopting the name Doc Pomus so his proper parents wouldn't know he was headlining at Negro joints. He became a fine blues shouter in the Big Joe mold. (That's Doc himself on the first track singing about his good gal Pott. ......?...... Wait a minute. "Pott"? Unusual name for a girl. Hmmmmm.) By the mid-40s, Pomus had begun recording for a variety of labels (Apollo, Chess, Savoy) with little success. He decided to concentrate on songwriting. His first hit was "Boogie Woogie Country Girl" recorded by Big Joe. He also wrote "Lonely Avenue", which was a smash hit for Ray Charles. (According to Mac Rebennack, with this song Doc single-handedly invented "junker blues" one of the five purest traditional blues motifs.) In 1957, Doc collaborated with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller on the Coasters' "Young Blood," which became Doc's first national hit. By that time, Doc had quit singing for good.
The next year Doc took Mort Shuman, a young piano player, and molded him into his songwriting partner, a partnership that lasted until 1965. Doc mostly wrote the lyrics, and Mort the music, although Doc also collaborated on some melodies. Otis Blackwell (another genius Brooklyn songwriter who deserves his own mix .... somebody ... hint, hint) brought Doc and Mort to Hill and Range Publishers. The two took up residence in a penthouse cubbyhole in the Brill Building and began cranking out the hits. They wrote hit songs for Dion & the Belmonts, Bobby Darin, Fabian (Doc professed pride that he was able to get a guy with such limited chops as Fabian off the ground), the Mystics, and Jimmy Clanton, among others. They had their biggest success with the Drifters and Elvis. Elvis alone recorded about 25 of their songs.
In 1964 Doc and Mort went to England where Mort began working with other writers. The next year, Doc took a severe fall down a flight of stairs, spent some time in the hospital, and remained in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. The Pomus and Shuman songwriting team broke up that year, and Doc left the music business for the next 10 years, earning his living as a professional gambler. Doc returned to music in the late 70s, co-writing mostly with Dr. John. In his later years Doc help start the Rhythm and Blues Foundation to aid impoverished R&B performers, and taught his craft to young songwriters. Throughout his careers, Doc worked tirelessly to promote the careers of singers he believed in.
On March 14, 1991, Doc died of lung cancer at the age of 65. Since his death, Doc has been elected to the Rock & Roll, Songwriting, Blues, and New York Music Halls of Fame. Doc wrote some 2000 songs, 60 of them charting. His songs have sold over 250,000,000 copies and achieved more than 50,000,000 broadcast performances.
"Doc Pomus is the greatest songwriter who ever lived." - Phil Spector.
"I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men..." - Doc Pomus.

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