John Coltrane - The Night has a Thousand Eyes

[GuyBoden]

I'm really enjoying John Coltrane's and the whole band's playing on this, such a strong melody on this tune.

[supersoul]

I'm really enjoying John Coltrane's and the whole band's playing on this, such a strong melody on this tune.

I love the whole album that that was originally on, Coltrane's Sound, which also has Equinox, 26-2, a great version of Body & Soul.

[Dennis D]

Just a dumb question about this song's title -

I know this isn't the Bobby Vee song ( 2 different songs, 2 different composers ).
But are there rules for or against duplicating song titles, even though melody and lyrics are obviously different ? This always made me wonder why this same-titled songs thing hasn't happened more often.

Curious, and thanks.

[John A.]

Just a dumb question about this song's title -

I know this isn't the Bobby Vee song ( 2 different songs, 2 different composers ).
But are there rules for or against duplicating song titles, even though melody and lyrics are obviously different ? This always made me wonder why this same-titled songs thing hasn't happened more often.

Curious, and thanks.

No, there are no such rules. There are many examples of different songs with the same title (try googling "different song same name"). Miles Davis even wrote two different tunes called Milestones.

[PMB]

No, there are no such rules. There are many examples of different songs with the same title (try googling "different song same name"). Miles Davis even wrote two different tunes called Milestones.

John Lewis wrote the original Milestones. One of the many tunes not composed by Miles in the '50s that bears his name - Solar, Dig, Out of the Blue, Four, Tune-Up, Serpent's Tooth, Blue in Green...

[jazzshrink]

John Lewis wrote the original Milestones. One of the many tunes not composed by Miles in the '50s that bears his name - Solar, Dig, Out of the Blue, Four, Tune-Up, Serpent's Tooth, Blue in Green...

Lewis wrote the 1947 Milestones for Miles when he was playing with Bird. The 1958 composition Milestones was indeed written by Miles.

[Litterick]

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a poem by Francis William Bourdillon, published in 1887. It is also a novel by Cornell Woolrich, published under the pseudonym George Hopley in 1945. A film based on the novel was released in 1948, directed by John Farrow and starring Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell and John Lund.