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 (Mono Version)
Pop - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1960
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Sleep Walk and Other Favorites (Remastered)
Pop - Erschienen bei Delta Music am 16.05.2022
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Santo y Johnny Antologia de Exitos
Pop - Erschienen bei Multimusic México am 21.05.2015
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Santo & Johnny Colección De Oro (Instrumental)
World Music - Erschienen bei Pipila Records S.A. DE C.V. am 04.04.2011
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Sleepwalk (New Stereo Mix 2021)
Rockabilly - Erschienen bei New Europa am 01.01.2021
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Hawaii (Remastered)
Jazz - Erschienen bei Essential Media Group am 01.05.2011
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Santo & Johnny Greatest Hits Medley
Pop - Erschienen bei JB Production CH am 07.02.2016
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Sleepwalk: the Best of
Rock - Erschienen bei Burning Fire am 28.09.2009
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Sleep Walk (Remastered)
Pop - Erschienen bei New World am 17.09.2020
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Dance Dance Dance (Remastered)
Jazz - Erschienen bei Essential Media Group am 06.12.2011
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La musica degli angeli, vol. 2
Pop - Erschienen bei Inccd am 01.10.2010
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Anthology: The Definitive Collection (Remastered)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei Master Tape Records am 18.09.2020
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Play The Beatles
Rock - Erschienen bei Master Classics Records am 01.12.2010
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The Very Best Of (Remastered)
Pop - Erschienen bei New World am 11.12.2020
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Sleepwalk - The First Two Albums
Rock - Erschienen bei Jasmine Records am 12.04.2011
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Sleepwalk - The Very Best Of
Pop - Erschienen bei Rockabilly Records am 28.09.2009
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Al Estilo De Santo & Johnny La Costa
Pop - Erschienen bei Tigueraso Records am 22.04.2013
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