Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Vernon Green was leader of the rhythm and blues band the The Medallions. He wrote the 1954 song "The Letter" which contained the nonsense lyric, "the pulpitudes of love," which was later picked up by Steve Miller as "the Pompatus of love." Green died December 24, 2000 in Los Angeles. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.