Santo & Johnny

Biography

Santo Farina (24 October 1937, Brooklyn, New York, USA; steel guitar) and Johnny Farina (b. 30 October 1941, Brooklyn, New York, USA; rhythm guitar, steel guitar). Santo and Johnny’s father, a serviceman, had found the steel guitar on C&W records very soothing when he was overseas. He encouraged his children to learn the instrument and was impressed when they wrote an instrumental, ‘Sleep Walk’, which was released on the Canadian-American label. (The record label and the... Read more

Genres

Holiday & Seasonal Instrumental Pop / Rock

Tags

oldies

instrumental

50s

surf

guitar

surf rock

Decades

1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

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