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A.K.A. Doc Pomus - Edmonton Jewish Film Festival 2014
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***Edmonton Jewish Film Festival May 25th-29th, 2014***
A.K.A. Doc Pomus - Thursday May 29th, 2014 @ 7:00 PM at Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre Edmonton (10200 102nd Ave)
Doc Pomus' dramatic life is one of American music's great untold stories. Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus, then emerged as a one of the most brilliant
songwriters of the early rock & roll era, writing "Save the Last Dance for Me," "This Magic Moment," "A Teenager in Love," "Viva Las Vegas," and dozens of other hits. He wrote a thousand songs -- including some of the most recorded songs in the history of popular music -- but his most lasting gift may have been his uniquely generous spirit. His songs were recorded by artists ranging from Elvis to Ray Charles, Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen and hundreds more.
For most of his life Doc was confined to crutches and a wheelchair, but he lived more during his sixty-five years than others could experience in several lifetimes. Packed with incomparable music and rare archival imagery, AKA DOC POMUS features interviews with Doc's collaborators and friends, including Dr. John, Ben E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, Dion, Leiber and Stoller, and B.B. King.
"AKA Doc Pomus will keep you humming tunes you know and love"
-- Regina Weinreich, Huffington Post
A.K.A. Doc Pomus - Thursday May 29th, 2014 @ 7:00 PM at Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre Edmonton (10200 102nd Ave)
Doc Pomus' dramatic life is one of American music's great untold stories. Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus, then emerged as a one of the most brilliant
songwriters of the early rock & roll era, writing "Save the Last Dance for Me," "This Magic Moment," "A Teenager in Love," "Viva Las Vegas," and dozens of other hits. He wrote a thousand songs -- including some of the most recorded songs in the history of popular music -- but his most lasting gift may have been his uniquely generous spirit. His songs were recorded by artists ranging from Elvis to Ray Charles, Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen and hundreds more.
For most of his life Doc was confined to crutches and a wheelchair, but he lived more during his sixty-five years than others could experience in several lifetimes. Packed with incomparable music and rare archival imagery, AKA DOC POMUS features interviews with Doc's collaborators and friends, including Dr. John, Ben E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, Dion, Leiber and Stoller, and B.B. King.
"AKA Doc Pomus will keep you humming tunes you know and love"
-- Regina Weinreich, Huffington Post