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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rock historian Ed Ward profiles songwriter Doc Pomus, the Brooklyn-born blues singer and songwriter who died in 1991. Born Jerome Solon Felder, he survived a childhood case of polio and went on to ...

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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