Sleep Walk Song

It was covered by sandy and the wild wombats nick noble the lettermen diana ross the supremes and other artists.

Sleep walk song. Prominently featuring steel guitar the song was recorded at trinity music in manhattan new york city sleep walk entered billboard s top 40 on august 17 1959. Sleep walk instead of dreaming i sleep walk cause i lost you and now what am i to do what to do can t believe that we re through i don t care how much you tell me. Santo johnny were an american rock and roll duo from brooklyn new york. Exactly two years earlier on august 1st 1959 sleep walk was in it s first week on the top 100 at 95 and santo johnny were performing the song on the abc tv program dick clark s saturday night beechnut show.

Sleep walk is an instrumental tune written recorded and released in 1959 by brothers santo johnny farina with their uncle mike dee playing the drums. The song sleep walk was written by don wolf santo farina johnny farina and ann farina and was first recorded by betsy brye in 1959. It rose to the number 1 position for the last two weeks in september and. Did not chart on the hot 100 but released as a single in 1959.

They are best known for their instrumental sleep walk which became a regional hit and eventually reached the top of the billboard pop chart when it was released nationally in 1959.