doc pomus

In fall of 2022, Chaiken worked closely with Sharyn Felder, daughter of acclaimed and influential songwriter Jerome ‘Doc’ Pomus, on organizing and cataloging her father’s archive of lyric drafts, reel-to-reel home recordings, Brill Building acetates, unpublished autobiographical writings and essays, notebooks, journals, photographs, ephemera, music publishing contracts, filmed interviews, and hours of audio recordings. A profoundly personal, far-reaching record of Pomus’s extraordinary life and times.