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Re: Sleepwalk - different versions
Posted:
10 Apr 2020, 09:02
by Iain Purdon
I have always assumed that. I’m surprised the Farinas and Wolf didn’t put in a copyright claim! Anyway, Midnight gave them composer royalties so was commercially a very good idea.
Even better was the way they monetised FBI. Having collected the composer royalties on that, they used the same idea for The Boys.
Re: Sleepwalk - different versions
Posted:
10 Apr 2020, 20:20
by Teflon
I'm a confirmed Shadows fan, and have always loved their first version, but I have to confess, I have a new favourite. It's by "Larkin Poe" :
Cliff
Re: Sleepwalk - different versions
Posted:
11 Apr 2020, 02:20
by Iain Purdon
That's cute! I'm sure Johnny Farina would be chuffed.
Here's an interview he gave about
Sleepwalk last year. It points to further cover versions!
https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/interview-johnny-farina-on-60-years-of-the-iconic-instrumental-sleep-walk
Re: Sleepwalk - different versions
Posted:
11 Apr 2020, 12:01
by SJB
Not so very long ago - I was invited to a session set up to allow anyone stuck in the bedroom to be able to work towards playing at a shadows club.
Very nervous for several months - I played Sleepwalk. The backing was very good but they stopped half way through the number. They guys sort of looked at me as I continued playing - then I stopped.
Not wishing to seem thick - I laughed with them.
So I tried it the next week. Same thing - so I thought I had better look into this.
Played the Shadows version - it was half the length of what I was playing.
Then the penny dropped - I learn't it from a GT Mag. Reading the blurb more slowly - I had learned the Millennium version.
Re: Sleepwalk - different versions
Posted:
11 Apr 2020, 19:52
by Iain Purdon
What you mean is, you played it perfectly and they put on the wrong backing track!!
Re: Sleepwalk - different versions
Posted:
18 Apr 2020, 09:39
by Vincent
another one to listen to is by Danny Gatton. Great player..or was
Re: Sleepwalk - different versions
Posted:
18 Apr 2020, 15:40
by StuartD
RayL wrote:I remember reading (from this invaluable website) that The Shadows wrote Nivram to give themselves an alternative to a similar tune that they had been playing for a time (was it Barney's Blues?).
Presumably, then, Midnight was written as their replacement for Sleepwalk?
Ray
And 36-24-36 as their replacment for Cerveza
Regards
Stuart
Re: Sleepwalk - different versions
Posted:
10 Jul 2020, 00:58
by bosunbob
If memory serves, it wasn't until I heard, Sleepwalk on the Shadows first
album release, Santo & Johnny's record was all I ever heard on radio play lists
down here in New Zealand.
Re: Sleepwalk - different versions
Posted:
13 Jul 2020, 08:46
by David Martin
Here's my version...
Re: Sleepwalk - different versions
Posted:
14 Jul 2020, 11:03
by Iain Purdon