"Chains Of Love", a 12-bar blues, was written by Doc Pomus (a.k.a.
Jerome Solon Felder).
Pomus who sold the copyright to Ahmet Ertegun in 1950 for $50.00 (referencing Doc Pomus and his family).
Since Ertegun owned the copyright from that point forward, he had legal right to claim the song as his own which he did using the pseudonym "A.
[1] The first recording by Big Joe Turner (as Joe Turner) was in 1951, reaching number 2 on the US Billboard R&B chart.. Turner's version was his first success on the Atlantic label established by Ertegun.