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A.K.A. Doc Pomus

(A.K.A. Doc Pomus)
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Original Title : A.K.A. Doc Pomus
Time : 98 Min
Genre : Documentary, Biography, Music
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2012
Director : William Hechter, Peter Miller
Writer : No data available
Producer : Sharyn Felder, William Hechter, Peter Miller
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : Canada, United States
Original Language : English
About : Doc Pomus was the unlikeliest of rock and roll icons. Paralyzed by polio as a child, Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, choosing the blues name Doc Pomus, and then as one of American popular music's greatest ...See moreDoc Pomus was the unlikeliest of rock and roll icons. Paralyzed by polio as a child, Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, choosing the blues name Doc Pomus, and then as one of American popular music's greatest songwriters, creating "Save the Last Dance for Me," "This Magic Moment," "A Teenager in Love," "Viva Las Vegas," and a thousand other songs. A.K.A. DOC POMUS brings to life Doc's joyous, heartbreaking, romantic, and extraordinarily eventful journey. Packed with incomparable music and rare archival imagery, its cast includes Dr. John, Ben E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, Dion, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, B.B. King, and Lou Reed, who also reads from Doc's powerful private journals. Doc's was a life of disability and possibility, tragedy and romance, and some of the greatest music ever recorded. Written by Anonymous See less Read more: Plot summary

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