Santo & Johnny
Best remembered for their instrumental guitar classic "Sleepwalk," brothers Santo and Johnny Farina were born and raised in Brooklyn. Inspired by the country music he heard on the radio, Santo adopted the steel guitar as a teen, and at age 14 he formed an instrumental trio, soon after writing his first original songs. In time he began teaching his younger sibling Johnny to play standard electric guitar, and they started performing as a duo. Santo & Johnny debuted in 1959 with "Sleepwalk" for the tiny Brooklyn label Trinity Records, a hauntingly atmospheric instrumental they'd composed with the aid of their mother. The single became a major local favorite and was then licensed to the Canadian-American imprint, where it topped the Billboard pop charts in August of that year.
Santo & Johnny soon issued their self-titled debut LP, also notching a hit with their follow-up single "Teardrops"; however, the duo's popularity quickly slid, although they issued five more albums for Canadian-American -- among them 1960's Encore and 1963's Offshore -- before the company dissolved in 1965. Two years later the siblings signed to Imperial to release The Brilliant Guitar Sounds of Santo & Johnny; three other efforts followed before Imperial, too, closed in 1968. More popular internationally than at home, Santo & Johnny continued to record well into the following decade, typically landing on little-known Italian labels; the duo finally disbanded in 1976, with Santo continuing on as a solo act.
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Sleep Walk / Tear Drop (Rerecorded Version)
Pop/Rock - Released by K-Tel on 15 Jan 2024
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Sleep Walk and Other Favorites (Remastered)
Pop - Released by Delta Music on 16 May 2022
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Santo y Johnny Antologia de Exitos
Pop - Released by Multimusic México on 21 May 2015
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Santo & Johnny Colección De Oro (Instrumental)
World - Released by Pipila Records S.A. DE C.V. on 4 Apr 2011
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Sleepwalk (New Stereo Mix 2021)
Rockabilly - Released by New Europa on 1 Jan 2021
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Santo & Johnny Greatest Hits Medley
Pop - Released by JB Production CH on 7 Feb 2016
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Sleepwalk: the Best of
Rock - Released by Burning Fire on 28 Sep 2009
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La musica degli angeli, vol. 2
Pop - Released by Inccd on 1 Oct 2010
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Anthology: The Definitive Collection (Remastered)
Ambient/New Age - Released by Master Tape Records on 18 Sep 2020
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Play The Beatles
Rock - Released by Master Classics Records on 1 Dec 2010
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Sleepwalk - The Very Best Of
Pop - Released by Rockabilly Records on 28 Sep 2009
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Al Estilo De Santo & Johnny La Costa
Pop - Released by Tigueraso Records on 22 Apr 2013
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All Time Instrumental Greats
Pop - Released by Play Digital on 29 May 2015
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Instrumental Santo & Johnny (Instrumental)
World - Released by Vibra Music Entertainment S.A.S. on 24 Oct 2020
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Presenting Santo & Johnny
Lounge - Released by Universal Digital Enterprises on 7 Jul 1959
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Le colonne sonore di Santo & Johnny (A summer place)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Doc on 27 Dec 2021
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