“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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