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The album never materialized, but nevertheless, Weitz has
spent the last 40-odd years entertaining all over the Philadelphia
area, singing the songs of his youth at b’nai mitzvah, weddings
and other special occasions (and also marrying his second
wife, Marci, of now nearly 30 years). At 72, he doesn’t perform
quite as much as he used to, or at the same clubs — he was at
Warmdaddy’s before it was Warmdaddy’s — but you can still
find him singing Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and old Gershwin
tunes at elder-living facilities and at the occasional milestone
event. Not that he’d have it any other way.

“I’ve been entertaining since I was 3 years old,” he said.

Weitz was born in Mount Airy, but grew up primarily in the
Wyncote/Cheltenham area. There, he learned to play piano and
sing from his father, Ted Weitz. Known professionally as Ted
White, his father had written songs for Louis Armstrong, among
others, and met Ella Fitzgerald when she was just beginning her
legendary career. He was also a songwriter, with a radio show on
WCAU in addition to a side-gig as a joke-writer, writing Henny
Youngman-style one-liners for the Jewish Exponent’s “Borscht
Belt” section (since discontinued). This was all in addition to
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“I’ve been
entertaining since I was
3 years old.”
going door to door, selling everything
from furniture to cars to second mort-
gages in installments, a business begun by
Weitz’s grandfather.

Meanwhile, in the family basement, he
taught Weitz how to keep time with the
music, when to enter a song and when
to repeat something for effect. Weitz still
does a cabaret show in honor of his father’s
memory. (Weitz’s sons are both entertain-
ers as well; Adam Weitz is the owner of A
Sharp Productions, a local entertainment
company that he also performs for).

Weitz was a classmate of Reggie
Jackson at Wyncote Elementary and went
to high school with Yonatan Netanyahu,
the Israeli hero who was felled in the op-
eration to free Jewish hostages at the in-
ternational airport in Entebbe, Uganda,
and whose younger brother is now Israel’s
prime minister. At Blue Mountain Camp
in Stroudsburg, Weitz played the lead
in The Pajama Game and Freddy in My
Fair Lady. In college, as he started to sing
in doo-wop and other a cappella groups
on the steps of Mitten Hall at Temple
University, he’d sometimes be joined by
Daryl Hall.

Though Weitz has since spent his life
in financial planning, it was around those
Mitten Hall sessions that he started getting
professional gigs, which his parents were
pleased with. “They were good with it as
long as there was some revenue,” he said.

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