Windlesoul Posted September 10, 2023 Posted September 10, 2023 (edited) Pomus and Shuman. Hitmakers, Together and Apart - a book by Graham Vickers (Hardback format). In stock at A Nickel And A Nail (limited supply only). The blurb: A joint biography of one of popular music's greatest song writing teams, exploring the private lives and public triumphs of lyricist Doc Pomus and composer Mort Shuman. The blurb: Between 1958 and 1965, usually working out of Manhattan's famous Brill Building, they wrote some 500 teen anthems and timeless ballads for Ray Charles, The Drifters, Bobby Darin, and Del Shannon among others. Polio-stricken ex-blues shouter Pomus always attracted the press coverage, but after the duo split junior partner Shuman proved perhaps the more publicly colourful, acting in films, writing musicals, joining the post-Beatles British beat boom and eventually becoming a chart-topping singer-composer in his own right. The story of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, writing together and individually, reveals a personal dynamic that was both warm and difficult but which at its height produced songs like Save The Last Dance For Me, This Magic Moment and Lonely Avenue (Hardback, 160 pages). Order here https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/books/products/pomus-and-shuman-hitmakers-together-and-apart-graham-vickers-hardbackSee less Edited September 10, 2023 by Windlesoul 1
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