He began writing for Presley (who called him "the Mad Professor") in 1956 at the request of music publisher Jean Aberbach, following the ballad First in Line with Got a Lot of Livin' to Do, a highlight of the 1957 feature film #Loving You. In all, he composed 57 songs for Presley, more than any other individual writer, although the vast majority were trifles penned for specific scenes in the lowbrow musicals that occupied most of the singer's energy -- Wooden Heart, Rock-a-Hula Baby, Do the Clam, and He's Your Uncle, Not Your Dad are merely a representative sample. Weisman also authored hits like Johnny Mathis' When I Am with You, Brian Hyland's Warmed Over Kisses (Left Over Love), and Bobby Vee's The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. Most notably, Dusty Springfield entered the U.K. Top Ten in 1966 with the devastating All I See Is You, co-written with Clive Westlake. Another diva, Barbra Streisand, cut Weisman's Love in the Afternoon almost a decade later, by which time he was virtually out of the music business. After a debilitating battle with Alzheimer's disease, he died at a Los Angeles long-term care facility on May 20, 2007. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi