Editing Doc Pomus (section)

==Early life==
Jerome Solon Felder was born on June 27, 1925, in [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]], [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. He was the son of British born [[Jewish]] immigrants.<ref name="Times Obit">{{cite news |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |date=March 15, 1991 |title=Jerome (Doc) Pomus, 65, Lyricist For Some of Rock's Greatest Hits |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/15/obituaries/jerome-doc-pomus-65-lyricist-for-some-of-rock-s-greatest-hits.html |access-date=7 February 2019 |publisher=NYTimes}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Doc Pomus, Non Performers, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |url=https://rockhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Doc_Pomus_1992.pdf |website=rockhall.com}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Doc Pomus |url=https://rockhall.com/inductees/doc-pomus/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Pomus">{{cite news|last=Tamarkini |first=Jeff |title=Heart of the matter |work=The Phoenix |date=2007-04-03 |url=http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid36818.aspx |access-date=2007-04-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235800/http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid36818.aspx |archive-date=2007-09-26 }}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Palmer |first=Joanne |date=2013-11-15 |title=From Williamsburg to the King... |url=https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/from-williamsburg-to-the-king/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=The Jewish Standard |language=en-US}}</ref> Having contracted [[polio]] as a boy, he was in an iron lung for a year, and walked with the aid of crutches. Later, due to [[post-polio syndrome]] exacerbated by an accident, Felder relied on a wheelchair.<ref name="Times Obit" /><ref name=":4" />  

Pomus was homeschooled for much of elementary and junior high school. He had a high [[Intelligence quotient|IQ]], and excelled at the insult challenge among teens and young men, "[[playing the dozens]]". He also was facile at creating his own lyrics for blues songs of the day.<ref name=":8" /> He became a fan of the blues after hearing a [[Big Joe Turner]] record, "Piney Brown Blues", which changed the direction of his life.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> He attended Bushwick High School and then [[Brooklyn College]], where he studied music and learned to play piano and saxophone,<ref name=":4" /> from 1943 to 1945. 

His brother is New York attorney [[Raoul Felder]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=All Things Considered |first=NPR Staff |date=October 24, 2013 |title=The Life Of Doc Pomus, Songwriter To The Stars |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/10/24/240487765/the-life-of-doc-pomus-songwriter-to-the-stars |work=NPR}}</ref>