Sleepwalk
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Sleep Walk is an instrumental song released in 1959 by the duo-brothers Santo and Johnny after one sibling woke up the other with a tune idea that originally had lyrics but got scrapped because the sound of the steel guitar already speaks for itself.

Recorded at Trinity Music in Manhattan, New York City, Sleep Walk entered Billboard's Top 40 on August 17 of the same year it was released. It rose to the number 1 position for the last two weeks in September and remained in the Top 40 until November 9. Sleep Walk also reached number 4 on the R&B chart. It was the last instrumental to hit number 1 in the 1950s and earned a gold record for Santo and Johnny.
Only going by two genres; Instrumental Rock and R&B.

It was released six months after the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. Also being the song played over the ending of the 1987 film La Bamba when Ritchie dies and Bob yells "RITCHIE!" as a flashback plays with the outro of the song playing its final riffs.

This song is very melancholic because of where it was set – being released in 1959 not too long before a new wave of music is coming to revolutionize Rock N' Roll with The Beatles getting ready to pick up from where Buddy left off.

After "The Day The Music Died" and new artists in the works of just as soon as 1960 arrives,
what a way to end the 50s decade...



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@OfficialMusicHome

Guys, I just uploaded the Betsy Brye version with lyrics. I hope you like it! Thank you all <3
P.S. Let me know in the comments below if you heard that beautiful version before :D

@J.Rob77

Love this song

@sergiodavid5025

La version de Betsy Brye me parece muy elegante también,que musica mas mágica.

@MegaIkedog

The Betsy Brye version was used in The Conjuring I believe!

@oscarcandelaria6287

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@briana8133

i luv this. :(

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@axel.2126

I feel that bro 😔

@tasbiha131

contrastellar hey its gonna be fine
Don’t worry
I love you

@erikeriks

Omg this is hitting me on a spiritual level

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