Sleepwalk - different versions

[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.

[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

[Iain Purdon]

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" :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zATONGvTMNg

Cliff

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

[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.

[Iain Purdon]

What you mean is, you played it perfectly and they put on the wrong backing track!!

[Vincent]

another one to listen to is by Danny Gatton. Great player..or was

[StuartD]

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

[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.

[David Martin]

Here's my version...

[Iain Purdon]

Here's my version...

https://youtu.be/JlDOrHgfk78

Nice one