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 - Editado por K-Tel el 15 ene. 2024
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Santo y Johnny Antologia de Exitos
Pop - Editado por Multimusic México el 21 may. 2015
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Santo & Johnny Colección De Oro (Instrumental)
World music - Editado por Pipila Records S.A. DE C.V. el 4 abr. 2011
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Sleepwalk (New Stereo Mix 2021)
Rockabilly - Editado por New Europa el 1 ene. 2021
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Sleep Walk (Remastered)
Pop - Editado por New World el 17 sep. 2020
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Santo & Johnny Greatest Hits Medley
Pop - Editado por JB Production CH el 7 feb. 2016
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La musica degli angeli, vol. 2
Pop - Editado por Inccd el 1 oct. 2010
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Anthology: The Definitive Collection (Remastered)
Ambientes - Editado por Master Tape Records el 18 sep. 2020
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Play The Beatles
Rock - Editado por Master Classics Records el 1 dic. 2010
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Sleepwalk - The Very Best Of
Pop - Editado por Rockabilly Records el 28 sep. 2009
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Al Estilo De Santo & Johnny La Costa
Pop - Editado por Tigueraso Records el 22 abr. 2013
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The Very Best Of (Remastered)
Pop - Editado por New World el 11 dic. 2020
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Instrumental Santo & Johnny (Instrumental)
World music - Editado por Vibra Music Entertainment S.A.S. el 24 oct. 2020
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Presenting Santo & Johnny
Lounge - Editado por Universal Digital Enterprises el 7 jul. 1959
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Le colonne sonore di Santo & Johnny (A summer place)
Bandas sonoras de cine - Editado por DOC el 27 dic. 2021
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Hawaii
World music - Editado por Master Classics Records el 1 may. 2011
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Island Songs (Music in Paradise)
Electrónica - Editado por Beach View Records el 14 oct. 2022
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