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!!
Song Title - watch/read blog (click to sort) | Composer | Genre | MP3 - listen | Add To Playlist |
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Footprints in the Sands of Time | Rick Weiss | Rock Anthem | ||
Autumn Leaves | Kosma, Mercer | Jazz | ||
That’s Life | Kay and Gordon | Pop | ||
Whistle While You Work | Morey and Churchill | Disney | ||
Donna Lee - Indiana | Charlie Parker | Jazz | ||
This Old Heart of Mine | Holland-Dozier-Holland | R&B/Soul | ||
The Night They Invented Champagne | Lerner/Loewe | Broadway | ||
Russians (2022) | Sting | Rock | ||
Mountain Greenery | Rogers and Hart | Broadway | ||
Cow Cow Boogie | Don Raye | Country | ||
You Go To My Head | Coots and Gillespie | Standard | ||
Sitting in Limbo | Jimmy Cliff | Reggae | ||
On the Good Ship Lollipop | Whiting and Clare | Pop | ||
We’ve Only Just Begun | Rogers and Nichols | Pop | ||
Paint It Black | The Rolling Stones | Rock | ||
All I Want To Do Is Dream | Boudleaux Bryant | Rock | ||
Help! John Lennon’s cri de couer | John Lennon | Rock | ||
Mother’s Day Singalong Medley | Misc | Americana | ||
Earth Day Help! | John Lennon | Rock | ||
The Look of Love | Burt Bacharach | Jazz | ||
Beethoven 250th Birthday Celebration! | Ludwig van Beethoven | Classical | ||
A Song for You | Leon Russell | Rock | ||
On the Sunny Side of the Street (part of Happy Jazz Medley) | Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields | Jazz | ||
Them There Eyes (part of Happy Jazz Medley) | Pinker, Tauber, Tracy | Jazz | ||
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie (part of Happy Jazz Medley) | Billy Mayhew | Jazz | ||
Pennies from Heaven (part of Happy Jazz Medley) | Johnson and Burke | Jazz | ||
Ain’t She Sweet (part of Happy Jazz Medley) | Ager and Yellen | Jazz | ||
Happy Jazz Medley | Misc. | Jazz | ||
Tenderly | Walter Gross and Jack Lawrence | Standards | ||
A Whole New World | Alan Menken and Tim Rice | Disney/Soundtrack | ||
I Believe | Stevie Wonder | R&B/Soul | ||
My Cherie Amour | Stevie Wonder | R&B/Soul | ||
Angel from Montgomery | John Prine | Country/Folk | ||
All Things Must Pass | George Harrison | Rock | ||
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry | Hank Williams | Country | ||
Across The Universe | John Lennon and Paul McCartney | Rock | ||
Fields of Gold | Sting | Rock | ||
Hold On | John Lennon | Pop | ||
Two classic songs in thirty seconds to make you smile | Woody Guthrie, Grainger, Robbins | Americana | ||
Traumerei | Robert Schumann | Classical | ||
The Circle Game | Joni Mitchell | Pop | ||
Basin Street Blues | Spencer Williams | New Orleans | ||
All That Heaven Will Allow | Bruce Springsteen | Rock | ||
As Long As He Needs Me | Lionel Bart | Broadway | ||
You’ve Got a Friend In Me | Randy Newman | Soundtrack | ||
The Blues is Just A Bad Dream | James Taylor | Blues | ||
Never My Love | The Adrissi Brothers | Pop | ||
Lately | Stevie Wonder | Pop | ||
Jamaica Farewell | Lord Burgess | Calypso | ||
Imagine | John Lennon | Rock | ||
I Will | Paul McCartney | Pop | ||
Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Duet) | Coots and Gillespie | Holiday | ||
The Red River Valley | Unknown | Cowboy | ||
Crystal Silence | Chick Corea | Jazz | ||
This Masquerade | Leon Russell | Rock | ||
Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two) | Harry Dacre | Americana | ||
Chopin Valse Op 70 No 2 | Frederic Chopin | Classical | ||
If Ever I Would Leave You | Lerner/Lowe | Broadway | ||
In The Still of the Night | Cole Porter | Standard | ||
We Can Work It Out | Lennon-McCartney | Rock | ||
Thanks For The Memory | Ralph Rainger | Standard | ||
South of the Border - A Musical House Call | Jimmy Kennedy | Cowboy | ||
Those Were The Days (My Friend) | Boris Fomin | Pop | ||
When You Wish Upon a Star | Leigh Harline | Standard | ||
Crazy | Willie Nelson | Country | ||
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love | Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields | Jazz | ||
Shallow | Lady Gaga | Soundtrack | ||
Evergreen | Barbra Streisand | Pop | ||
Thunder Road | Bruce Springsteen | Rock | ||
Simple Twist of Fate | Bob Dylan | Rock | ||
Home on the Range | Daniel Kelley and Brewster Higley | Cowboy | ||
Rosie | Jackson Browne | Classic Rock | ||
Liebestraum (A Dream Of Love) No. 3 theme | Frank Liszt | Classical | ||
If I Had the World to Give | Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter | Rock | ||
Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues | WC Handy, Earl Hines arr. | New Orleans | ||
Desperado | Don Henley and Glenn Frey | Rock | ||
Reverie | Claude Debussy | Classical | ||
Ain’t Misbehavin! | Fats Waller | Jazz | ||
Waltz at Maxim’s | Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe | Broadway | ||
Gigi | Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe | Broadway | ||
I Could Have Danced All Night | Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe | Broadway | ||
Theme From Love Story | Francis Lai | Pop | ||
Tennessee Waltz | Redd Steward and Pee Wee King | Jazz | ||
I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover | Henry MacGregor Woods | Standards | ||
Let It Be | Paul McCartney | Rock | ||
Stella Blue | Jerry Garcia and Robert C. Hunter | Rock | ||
More Than You Know | Vincent Youmans | Jazz | ||
Can You Feel The Love Tonight? | Elton John and Tim Rice | Pop | ||
Armed Forces medley | Unknown | Patriotic | ||
If Dogs Run Free | Bob Dylan | Jazz | ||
Tell Me More and More (and Then Some) | Billie Holiday | Jazz | ||
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (with lyrics) | Eddie DeLange and Louis Alter | New Orleans | ||
Easter Parade | Irving Berlin | Standards | ||
Cars Hiss By My Window | Jim Morrison | Rock | ||
Maybe I’m Amazed | Paul McCartney | Rock | ||
One Spirit | Rick Weiss | Pop | ||
The White Cliffs of Dover | Walter Kent and Nat Burton | Patriotic | ||
Inventio IV | Johann Sebastian Bach | Classical | ||
Moonlight Sonata | Ludwig van Beethoven | Classical | ||
Adieu to the Piano | Ludwig van Beethoven | Classical | ||
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes | Mack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston | Soundtrack | ||
Somewhere | Stephen Sondheim | Broadway | ||
Happy St Patricks Day! (Danny Boy) | Unknown | Traditional | ||
Beauty and the Beast | Howard Ashman | Soundtrack | ||
Have I Told You Lately | Van Morrison | Pop | ||
Somewhere Over The Rainbow | Harold Arlen | Broadway | ||
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out | Jimmy Cox | Jazz | ||
Chopin 'Minute' Waltz | Frederic Chopin | Classical | ||
Something – (George Harrison) | George Harrison | Rock | ||
We’re in the Money! (Gold Diggers’ Song) | Al Dubin and Harry Warren | Jazz | ||
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic | John Walter Bratton | Americana | ||
Candle in the Wind | Elton John and Bernie Taupin | Pop | ||
As Time Goes By | Herman Hupfeld | Standards | ||
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes | Jerome Kern | Showtunes | ||
Now I Have Everything | Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick | Broadway | ||
Minuet in F | Wolfgang Mozart | Classical | ||
Fantasia in D Minor | Wolfgang Mozart | Classical | ||
Nevertheless (I’m in Love With You) | Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar | Showtunes | ||
How Insensitive | Antonio Carlos Jobim | Jazz | ||
Bridge Over Troubled Water | Paul Simon | Rock | ||
Forever Young | Bob Dylan | Rock | ||
Anchors Aweigh | Charles Zimmermann | Patriotic | ||
The Things We Did Last Summer | Sammy Cahn | Standards | ||
The Nutcracker Suite Contest | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Classical | ||
Silent Night – (Jamie Brown vocal) | Franz Xaver Gruber | Holiday | ||
We Wish You a Merry Christmas | Arthur Warrell | Holiday | ||
White Christmas | Irving Berlin | Holiday | ||
I'll Be Home for Christmas | Kim Gannon and Walter Kent | Holiday | ||
Danny Boy | Frederic Weatherly | Folk | ||
Music in Western Civilization in 24 Seconds! | Rick Weiss | Jazz | ||
Spider Man Theme – In Memory of Stan Lee | Paul Webster and Robert Harris | Soundtrack | ||
Give My Regards to Broadway – A Tribute to George M. Cohan | George M. Cohan | Broadway | ||
All The Way | Jimmy Van Heusen | Standards | ||
Summer's Almost Gone | Jim Morrison | Rock | ||
America the Beautiful | Bates and Ward | Patriotic | ||
The Secret Life of Plants | Stevie Wonder | Pop | ||
Claire de Lune | Claude Debussy | Classical | ||
I Wish I Had Someone To Love Me – (St. Patrick’s Day) | Unknown | Folk | ||
The Christmas Song – (Chestnuts Roasting…) | Robert Wells and Mel Tormé | Holiday | ||
Silent Night – (Weiss Music Minute) | Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr | Holiday | ||
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas! | Meredith Willson | Holiday | ||
Slipping Into Christmas | Leon Russell | Holiday | ||
Winter Wonderland | Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith | Holiday | ||
Santa Claus is Coming to Town! (piano minute) | Coots and Gillespie | Holiday | ||
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (Jazz Fest tribute) | Eddie DeLange and Louis Alter | New Orleans | ||
Take Me Out To The Ball Game | Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer | Tin Pan Alley | ||
Silent Night | Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr | Holiday | ||
Maple Leaf Rag | Scott Joplin | Jazz | ||
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out – SoundCloud | Jimmy Cox | Jazz | ||
I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy! | George M. Cohan | Patriotic | ||
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad | Unknown | Americana | ||
America the Beautiful - Memorial Day | Katharine Bates and Samuel Ward | Patriotic | ||
I Want A Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad | Harry Von Tilzer and William Dillon | Standards | ||
Easter Parade | Irving Berlin | Pop | ||
Springsteen at the LA Sports Arena 2016 – (Rosalita) | Bruce Springsteen | Live | ||
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling | Chauncey Alcott and George Graff, Jr. | Folk | ||
Nobody Knows You – Dr. Weiss plays at patient party! | Jimmy Cox | New Orleans | ||
Easter Parade | Irving Berlin | Standards | ||
Black Muddy River | Jerry Garcia | Rock | ||
My Old Kentucky Home | Stephen Foster | Standards |