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Soundcheck / March 20, 2007 / Lonely Avenue

Lonely Avenue

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Doc Pomus wrote “Save the Last Dance for Me” without being able to dance, or even walk. Alex Halberstadt, author of Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus, joins us to talk about how the polio survivor suffered loneliness and poverty even though he penned many of rock's biggest hits.


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