Many of you have asked me “What’s with all the music, Dr. Weiss?” Well, as I’ve told some of you:
I personally call every surgery patient on the evening of surgery just to make sure they are doing well and have no questions that need answering. Occasionally, I would be at the piano and play a song that we had listened to that day. I gradually realized that I wanted to go through all the music that I had played during my life and at least start making a list of the songs that I had recently played.
Well, there are now about 600 songs on the list and I realized that it in a way it represented the ‘soundtrack of my life’! And that’s how I got the idea to record these songs and share them with my patients, friends and family. After I record them they will reside here, for easy access.
Music is truth. It’s honest. It’s really the first social media, where in a way, people could share their souls directly. And isn’t that what the purpose of social media is and why it’s so popular - trying to share who you really are, as completely and directly as possible?
Finally, it has been (and will continue to be) a genuine pleasure sharing these different songs with you and I really appreciate all of your positive feedback!!
Name - watch/read blog (click to sort) | Composer | MP3 - listen | Add To Playlist |
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A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes | Mack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston | ||
A Whole New World | Alan Menken and Tim Rice | ||
Anchors Aweigh | Charles Zimmermann | ||
Armed Forces medley | Unknown | ||
Beauty and the Beast | Howard Ashman | ||
Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two) | Harry Dacre | ||
Danny Boy | Frederic Weatherly | ||
Happy St Patricks Day! (Danny Boy) | Unknown | ||
I'll Be Home for Christmas | Kim Gannon and Walter Kent | ||
Silent Night – (Jamie Brown vocal) | Franz Xaver Gruber | ||
Somewhere | Stephen Sondheim | ||
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic | John Walter Bratton | ||
The White Cliffs of Dover | Walter Kent and Nat Burton | ||
Two classic songs in thirty seconds to make you smile | Woody Guthrie, Grainger, Robbins | ||
We Wish You a Merry Christmas | Arthur Warrell | ||
When You Wish Upon a Star | Leigh Harline | ||
White Christmas | Irving Berlin | ||
You’ve Got a Friend In Me | Randy Newman |