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"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" is a popular song written by Benjamin Weisman, Dorothy Wayne and Marilynn Garrett and made famous by Bobby Vee on his 1963 Liberty Records album of the same name, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. The popular single hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, #2 on the Easy Listening survey, and #9 on the R&B singles chart. A version of the song with a slower tempo is heard in the 1998 film Dark City. Ben Weisman (November 161921—May 202007) was an American composer and pianist best known for having written many of the songs associated with Elvis Presley. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Ben Weisman was one of Elvis Presley's chief songwriters throughout the 1960s. He co-composed for Elvis' movies and stage performances nearly sixty songs that proceeded to go gold or platinum, including "First in Line", "Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do", "Follow That Dream" and "Wooden.    Download this sheet!
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Ben Weisman (November 161921—May 202007) was an American composer and pianist best known for having written many of the songs associated with Elvis Presley. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Ben Weisman was one of Elvis Presley's chief songwriters throughout the 1960s. He co-composed for Elvis' movies and stage performances nearly sixty songs that proceeded to go gold or platinum, including "First in Line", "Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do", "Follow That Dream" and "Wooden Heart". Weisman also wrote songs recorded by Barbra Streisand ("Love in the Afternoon"), The Beatles ("Lend Me Your Comb"), Johnny Mathis ("When I Am with You"), Terry Stafford ("I'll Touch A Star"), Bobby Vee ("The Night Has a Thousand Eyes") and many others. Since Weisman's outward appearance was atypical for a "rock 'roll guy", Elvis' pet nickname for him was "the mad professor". Just before Weisman's last meeting with Elvis in 1976, Elvis proudly announced to the crowd that he had recorded more of Weisman's songs than those of any other songwriter. Weisman's most recent musical score was for the 1995 movie Crossroads at Laredo: The Lost Film of Edward D. Wood Jr. Ben.
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