Mort Shuman: The Man Who Writes Hits For The U.S. Stars
Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 4 January 1964
IF ANYONE bothers to look just under the titles of their records, they'll see a name or names in brackets. Those names are the songwriters. And the names Pomus-Shuman will crop up many more times than will most and on hit discs.
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