The Drifters will take on a whole new dynamic at your family barbecue Saturday. I did not know this back story, which Scott Johnson highlighted recently (and Bill Bennett brought up this morning on his show):

Doc had been crippled by polio as a kid. His polio played a role in the writing of “Save the Last Dance For Me.” In his New York Times review of Alex Halberstadt’s recent biography of Pomus, Alan Light explains:
[His] crowning achievement was the Drifters’ sublime “Save the Last Dance for Me.” In a story straight out of Hollywood, Pomus actually wrote the lyrics on the back of an invitation to his own wedding, remembering how it felt to watch his bride dance with his brother, knowing that he himself was unable to navigate a dance floor. “Under his pen,” Halberstadt writes, “the simple declaration of love he set out to write wavered, giving way to vulnerability and fear.”

UPDATE: The last Drifter, Bill Pinkney, died last Wed.