Santo and Johnnny 1959
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Sleepwalk...love this song
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Indeed a timeless classic that everyone recognises, even if they don't know the name.
The boys were only ~16 when they wrote this and pitched it door to door to the record labels in NYC.
I was playing an E9 arrangement of it at the Carter Booth at the ISGC the year S&J were inducted into the HOF. When I finished the song I looked up and Johnny was standing there! He said, "It'll never be a hit...".
We spoke for a bit. He was very much in awe of PSG, and the attention his song gets. It was number one in 1959, and won a Grammy 40 years later.
I learned the version I do from my friend, the late great Don E. Curtis. I miss him so much.
Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVf84f6xrBw
The boys were only ~16 when they wrote this and pitched it door to door to the record labels in NYC.
I was playing an E9 arrangement of it at the Carter Booth at the ISGC the year S&J were inducted into the HOF. When I finished the song I looked up and Johnny was standing there! He said, "It'll never be a hit...".
We spoke for a bit. He was very much in awe of PSG, and the attention his song gets. It was number one in 1959, and won a Grammy 40 years later.
I learned the version I do from my friend, the late great Don E. Curtis. I miss him so much.
Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVf84f6xrBw
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