- In 2019, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio honored the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack", on which Weiss sang lead, in its Singles category.
- Mary Weiss was an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the Shangri-Las in the 1960s. She then vanished from the music scene for decades, returning in 2007 to record her first solo album with Norton Records.
- In 1989, the Shangri-Las reunited one last time for a Cousin Brucie show at The Meadowlands in New Jersey.
- Weiss later came back from San Francico to New York and occasionally gave shows with the Shangri-Las during the 1970s which led to a comeback attempt with Sire Records in 1977.
- She sang in school plays and choirs.
- She was a member of The Shangri-Las. They became a leading all Jewish girl group in the 1960s. After several years together, the group split in 1968. Weiss went to San Francisco to try a different lifestyle.
- After Weiss and her sister Betty became good friends with twins Mary Ann and Margie Ganser in grammar school, the four of them sang at local dances and hops. That brought them to the attention of local producer Artie Ripp, who later signed them on to Kama Sutra Productions. After recording demos and making it to the Brill Building in 1964 (and signing with Red Bird Records), they recorded songs: "Remember (Walking in the Sand)", which was their first hit, and "Leader of the Pack", which went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1964.
- In 2005, Weiss left her job in commercial interiors to get back into music.
- In March 2007, Norton Records released "Dangerous Game", a critically acclaimed solo album, on which she was backed by The Reigning Sound. She performed at different locations in the United States, as well as in Spain and France.
- Weiss took a job as a purchasing agent in New York City in Manhattan; as she later recalled, "I went to work for an architectural firm, and I was seriously into it. Then I got into commercial interiors, huge projects, buildings." She later moved up to be the chief purchasing agent and ran the commercial furniture dealership. In the late 1980s, she managed a furniture store and was an interior designer. By 2001, she was a furniture consultant to New York businesses.
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