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You Can’t Hip A Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos CD

Doc Pomus was a songwriter’s songwriter, crafting lyrics that have stood the test of time. You Can’t Hip A Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos is a masterclass in songwriting through the lens of Doc Pomus’ career and via previously unheard demos largely sung by his writing partner, Mort Shuman. You Can’t Hip A Square traces Doc and his songwriting partners’ careers across the beloved rock, pop and R&B hits that became 20th century standards. Songs like, “A Teenager In Love,” “Viva Las Vegas,” “Lonely Avenue,” “Save The Last Dance For Me,” “This Magic Moment,” recorded by artists like Elvis Presley, Lou Reed, The Drifters, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beach Boys, Ray Charles, The Coasters, Dionne Warwick, Dion, The Everly Brothers, Linda Ronstadt, and more! The lists of songs and artists who recorded them goes on and on.

Now, for the first time, the demo acetates kept by Doc and cared for by his daughter Sharyn Felder, have been carefully transferred, restored, mastered, and assembled into a 6-CD / Digital boxed set that includes some of the biggest hits of Doc’s career in demo form as well as a treasure trove of previously unheard, unknown songs that were left behind and never cut by any artist. It’s a remarkable collection of ‘what ifs’ of late ’50s and ’60s popular music. Is it possible one of the songs left behind could have hit #1 had it been cut by a popular artist like Elvis?

Co-produced by Sharyn Felder, publisher Will Bratton, and Omnivore’s multiple Grammy Award-winning producer Cheryl Pawelski, the collection also features a main liner note essay by Geoffrey Himes with additional side notes by Sharyn Felder, Peter Guralnick, Eddie Gorodetsky, Will Bratton, and Cheryl Pawelski. Restoration and mastering were handled by multiple Grammy Award-winning engineer Michael Graves and Jordan McLeod at Osiris Studio. The packaging includes ephemera from the estate, photos from throughout Doc’s life and pictures of choice acetates and sheet music all in a 48-page hardbound book.

Don’t be a square, get hip to the songs and enduring legacy of Doc Pomus!

6-CD / Digital Track List:

Disc 1:

It’s Great To Be Young And In Love

A Teenager In Love (Recorded 1961 Doc Pomus’ house Lynbrook, Long Island)

Love Roller Coaster

See That Girl

I Ain’t Sharin’ Sharon

Kiss And Make Up (Mort Shuman Demo)

Kiss And Make Up (R&B Records Single) – The Crowns

Hushabye (Recorded 1961 Doc Pomus’ house Lynbrook, Long Island) – Vocalist Neil Sedaka

Foxy Little Mama

A Young Boy’s Heart

Whatcha Really Thinkin’

This Magic Moment (Recorded 1961 Doc Pomus’ house Lynbrook, Long Island)

Lovers Gotta Cry (Once In A While)

Miss In-Between – Demo vocalist unknown

Forty-Seven Dollars

It Tears Me To Pieces

Deep Inside – Demo vocalist unknown

Could Somebody Take My Place Tonight

Troubled Mind

Always Is A Long, Long Time

Suddenly We’re Strangers

It’s Been Nice (Goodnight)

Be Everything To Anyone You Love – Demo vocalist Kenny Rankin

Lonely Winds

Enough Of This Stuff

What Am I To Do? – Demo vocalist unknown

(We Got Love) Money Can’t Buy

Be A Man – Demo vocalist Ellie Greenwich

Dream Song – Demo vocalist unknown

Disc 2:

Ginny In The Mirror

Shall I Tell Him You’re Not Here

Showdown – Demo vocalist John McFarland

Run Fool Run

Give Her Lots Of Love

You Never Talked About Me

Save A Dream – – Demo vocalist Peter Anders

Made For Each Other – Demo vocalist unknown

Fever And Headaches

Don’t School A Fool

The Sweet Pain Of Love – Demo vocalist Ellie Greenwich

My Baby Wants To Be A Singer – Demo vocalist unknown

Come Down To Earth

Hello World

The Ups And Downs Of Love

If Ellie Doesn’t Change – Demo vocalist Ellie Greenwich

Shack On The Beach

Why Does The Dance Have To End? – Demo vocalist Peter Anders

He’s Got Something – Demo vocalist unknown

Who Stole My Dream – Demo vocalist unknown

That’s Me

Book Of Time – Demo vocalist unknown

How Can I Make Him Love Me? – Demo vocalist unknown

It Only Takes A Minute

Low Down Blues

Brother, You Deserve Each Other – Demo vocalist Ellie Greenwich

Half A Love Is Better Than None At All – Demo vocalist Bobby Andriani

Baby How Long Will It Be? – Demo vocalist Bobby Andriani

Shindig – Demo vocalist unknown

Lucy (When Ya Comin’ Home?) aka Lucy! (You Sure Did It This Time)

Disc 3:

I’m Playing For Keeps

Have Yourself A Good Cry

Infatuation – Demo vocalist unknown

It’s A Man’s World – Demo vocalist unknown

Silly Boy

I’ve Been There Before

Bad Luck Blues

The Other Kind

Don’t You Pass Me By

King Lonely The Blue – Demo vocalist Scott Fagan

Love Is The Answer

I’m Gonna Cry Till My Tears Run Dry

Leave It To Me

I Lose Again

Petticoat White (Summer Sky Blue)

(I’ve Been A) Bad Girl – Demo vocalist Toni Wine

The Many Faces Of Love

Out On Your Own – Demo vocalist Scott Fagan

You Own My Heart – Demo vocalist unknown

I’m Not Good Enough For You

Monday Morning – Demo vocalist unknown

No Escape

Love At First Sight – Demo vocalist unknown

Here Comes The Night

Icy Teardrops

Diamonds And Gold – Demo vocalist Kenny Rankin

Jazz Joint

Disc 4:

Helplessly

I’m With You – Demo vocalist Bobby Andriani

Believe In Me – Demo vocalist unknown

He’s Got Everything

She’s Got Soul – Demo vocalist unknown

Your Conception Of Love – Demo vocalist Toni Wine

I’m Gonna Make A Comeback

Night Life – Demo vocalist unknown

My Baby’s Quit Me – Demo vocalist Titus Turner

The Green-Eyed Monster – Demo vocalist unknown

I’m Teasin’ A Broken Heart

If I Were Only Free

The Grass Looked Greener Over There – Demo vocalist unknown

Nothing Lasts Forever – Demo vocalist Joe Levine

Johnny Midnight – Demo vocalist unknown

One Little Teardrop (Can Lead To Two Broken Hearts) – Demo vocalist Joe Levine

Destination Heartbreak – Demo vocalist unknown

Our Love Will Overcome Everything – Demo vocalist Joe Levine

Give A Great Big Hand (To The Man Who Stole Her) – Demo vocalist Peter Anders

If I Knew Then What I Know Now

About Me – Demo vocalist Scott Fagan

It’s A Nothing World – Demo vocalist unknown

It’s Time To Make A Change

All For The Sake Of Love – Demo vocalist Scott Fagan

It Ain’t Gonna Happen To Me No More – Demo vocalist Bobby Andriani

Disc 5 – Viva Doc Pomus: Songs For Elvis (The Demos):

Turn Me Loose

A Mess Of Blues

(Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame

Kiss Me Quick

She’s Not You – Demo vocalist unknown

Gonna Get Back Home Somehow

Suspicion

Pot Luck (Pomus/Shuman Version)

Viva Las Vegas

Lady Luck

(It’s A) Long Lonely Highway

Kissin’ Cousins

I Need Somebody To Lean On

Girl Happy

One Way Ticket To The Blues

Pot Luck (Pomus/Spector Version) – Demo vocalist unknown

Kissin’ Fool

I Walk The Muddy Road To Love – Demo vocalist Peter Anders

What Every Woman Lives For

I Wish I Were In His Shoes

I’m A Man

Clambake (Version 1)

Double Trouble (Version 1)

Pot Luck (Pomus/Jeffreys Version) – Demo vocalist unknown

Havin’ A Ball

Double Trouble (Version 2)

Clambake (Version 2)

Bring My Poor Heart Back To Me – Demo vocalist unknown

Headin’ For A Heartache

Easy Come, Easy Go

“…Presley Liked Them”

Disc 6 – You Better Believe It!:

Doc’s Boogie*

My Good Pott*

My New Chick*

Fruity Woman Blues*

When I First Met Lucille

Here Comes The Blues (The Musicale Club, Harlem, NY)*

Fool All The Time*

Moving Day Blues

Big Joe’s Blues

Still In Love

Lonely Avenue

Boogie Woogie Country Girl

When Main Street Becomes Park Avenue

“…I Sing In My Sleep”

(Wake Up) Miss Rip Van Winkle

You Better Believe It

“…There’s Always Ideas Deep Inside”

I’ll Treat You Like A Woman*

If I Should Fail

Just Another Memory

No One

“…I’m Only Doc Pomus When It’s A Hit”

Bye Baby Bye (The Musicale Club, Harlem, NY)*

Discs 1–5: Vocals by Mort Shuman on all tracks except where noted. Disc 6: Vocalist Doc Pomus on all tracks

except Track 16 vocalists Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. All Tracks Previously Unissued excpet * and all of Disc 5

All songs written by Doc Pomus with Mort Shuman and the following other writers: Joe Turner, Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Alan Jeffreys, John McFarland, Vini Poncia/Peter Andreoli, Joe Kookoolis, Bob Andriani, Norman Meade (aka Jerry Ragovoy), Scott Fagan, Toni Wine, Lenore Rosenblat/Vic Millrose, Wes Farrell, Helen Miller, Scott Turner, Joe Levine, George Fischoff, Andrew La Terra, Jerry Lieber/Mike Stoller, and Reginald Ashby.