Single:
Sleepwalk entered the Australian singles chart* on 17 October 1959 and peaked at #10. The song was #63 on the Top 100 of 1959.
Composers:
Santo Farina, Johnny Farina, Ann Farina
Record label of Australian release:
Pye
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Sleep Walk is an instrumental song written and recorded in 1959 by American brothers Santo & Johnny Farina, prominently featuring steel guitar and their uncle Mike Dee playing the drums.
Santo and Johnny are known best for this record, one of the biggest hits of the golden age of rock ‘n’ roll. It was credited as being composed by the two brothers plus Santo’s wife Ann, although Johnny later said that her name was added by mistake.
Santo and Johnny had a long list of singles on the American charts, and four of those records made the Top 40 in Australia between 1959 and 1961, Sleepwalk being the biggest.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Walk
Sleepwalk is said to have inspired Peter Green for the Fleetwood Mac 1968 instrumental Albatross
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