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 - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1960
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Sleep Walk and Other Favorites (Remastered)
Pop - Pubblicato da Delta Music il 16 mag 2022
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Santo y Johnny Antologia de Exitos
Pop - Pubblicato da Multimusic México il 21 mag 2015
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Santo & Johnny Colección De Oro (Instrumental)
World music - Pubblicato da Pipila Records S.A. DE C.V. il 4 apr 2011
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Sleepwalk (New Stereo Mix 2021)
Rockabilly - Pubblicato da New Europa il 1 gen 2021
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Hawaii (Remastered)
Jazz - Pubblicato da Essential Media Group il 1 mag 2011
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Santo & Johnny Greatest Hits Medley
Pop - Pubblicato da JB Production CH il 7 feb 2016
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Sleepwalk: the Best of
Rock - Pubblicato da Burning Fire il 28 set 2009
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Sleep Walk (Remastered)
Pop - Pubblicato da New World il 17 set 2020
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Dance Dance Dance (Remastered)
Jazz - Pubblicato da Essential Media Group il 6 dic 2011
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La musica degli angeli, vol. 2
Pop - Pubblicato da Inccd il 1 ott 2010
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Anthology: The Definitive Collection (Remastered)
Musica d'ambiente/New Age - Pubblicato da Master Tape Records il 18 set 2020
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Play The Beatles
Rock - Pubblicato da Master Classics Records il 1 dic 2010
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The Very Best Of (Remastered)
Pop - Pubblicato da New World il 11 dic 2020
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Sleepwalk - The First Two Albums
Rock - Pubblicato da Jasmine Records il 12 apr 2011
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Sleepwalk - The Very Best Of
Pop - Pubblicato da Rockabilly Records il 28 set 2009
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Al Estilo De Santo & Johnny La Costa
Pop - Pubblicato da Tigueraso Records il 22 apr 2013
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