Biography
Millie Weitz entered the annals of recorded sound without ever pursuing a professional path in music. An amateur singer and dues-paying member of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, she joined the non-professional ensemble assembled for the 1937 premiere of Pins and Needles, the ILGWU-sponsored revue. Decca Records captured her straightforward delivery of the show's number "Nobody Makes a Pass at Me," and that guileless, honest, open performance has continued to resonate for more than six decades. The track appeared on the Decca LP Memorable Moments in Musical Comedy, issued at the dawn of the long-play era, and later surfaced on the 1996 MCA-Universal anthology Front Row Center: The Broadway Gold Box 1935-1988. Despite harboring no ambitions as a paid entertainer, Weitz stayed connected to the production, reprising her signature song sixty-nine years after the original staging at a 2006 ILGWU benefit held in San Francisco.