We used to slow dance to this song when I was in 9th grade and now I'm 73, 74, 75 and counting. 05.02.2021. 76 today, 04.14.2022. I'm still here my friends. It is now 4.19.2023 and I just turned 77. I'm hangin' on. Well my friends, today is April 14th, 2024. I am still here hangin' on and doing well. 78 today. Thank you all so very much for your past and future posts. I wish I could meet everyone of you personally and thank you but we know that can't happen. Life has been good to me. I would like to pass along some things that may help you get to where I am in life in case you don't hear from me again. 1. Give people the benefit of doubt. Forgive but don't forget. Guard your heart. Most people are good people and treat them as such. 2. Marry well and you'll live a good life. If a man treats his mother well, he'll treat you well. 3. Love your children and grandchildren unconditionally. None of us are perfect. We all make mistakes. Remember that when someone makes a mistake against you. 4. If you don't believe in a God, believe in something. It will help you get through the tough times in life in which we will all come across eventually. Hope to talk to you all next April. Tom
@@mrknotthall Good moms are hard to come by... And Dads as a matter of a fact. Hopefully that wisdom you gained over the years can be passed down. Have a blessed day.
Junior high dance, November 1969, a lovely girl asked _me_ to dance with her as this song commenced. To this day I don't know how I kept my composure when every part of me was vibrating like a tuning fork. I remember the smell of her Heaven Scent perfume, the light creating fine shadows on her perfect complexion and the streamers hung in the cafeteria for the occasion swaying gently as we danced. I got picked up from the dance by my father and the scene from To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck where Atticus Finch shoots a rabid dog was showing on The Saturday Night Movie when we arrived home; it must have been 10 PM or so.
Imagine that! You're in your bed in your apartment in Brooklyn in 1959 at 2AM and you hear this coming out of someone's window! The luckiest neighbors in all eternity!
Imagine you are in the middle of the desert, in another planet, on a carousel that only works when you get on it. And this song plays, brainwashing you.
The night before I joined the Air Force, I stayed up most of the night and early morning playing my 45 RPM record collection. "Sleepwalk" was the last record on the last stack. When it completed, ,I lifted the arm that holds the records above the spindle and let the song play over and over again. I probably played it twenty times, while reflecting on the past and what might be in my future. After completing basic training in Texas, they put a bunch of us on a bus heading for tech school in Mississippi. When we got to Beaumont, we pulled into a diner for lunch. As I walked into the place I heard "Sleep Walk" playing on the jukebox. It made me instantly home sick and I returned to the bus, miserable and waited for the others to finish eating and continuing our journey to Mississippi. That was 59 years ago. Still think about that day every time I hear the song.
What an amazing post. Put me right there with you as I love music and probably would've done the same thing... stay up all night listening to music before I left. Thank you for your service.
Don't need lyrics. I've always found the most soothing music to always be instrumental only. Something about speaking emotions without words is one of the most beautiful things I can think of. I can cry easier listening to music without words.
@@paultreadaway102 Call me crazy, but I've teared up hearing certain engine sounds lol. The combination of power steering pumps, hydraulic driven cooling fans, exhaust growl and of course the engine hum all working in harmony just makes me so happy that I tear up. It sounds like music. There's even major and minor note combos.
@@TheCRTman the heartstrings this one brings certain songs do aswell and others i get into it's weird how certain music the same styles go one extreme to another happy or sad
This song is so strange, because it stirs so many emotions and feelings at once. Nostalgia, regret, sadness, joy, despair, hope, finality, relaxation, the feeling that you missed the one chance that you had, the feeling that you did the best you could, and it wasn’t enough. And the feeling that even though the previous statement is true, it’s all going to be alright.
1959, met my husband and married my freshman year. Still love this beautiful song and other songs written in the mid 50s to late 50s and can relive a totally different and peaceful time for a little while. Thank you!!!!
Joe Aragon as a musician, it’s hard to describe it ...best way i can, it’s a discussion with your hands thru this instrument... and this is what they talked about at 2am ✌🏻
"Ritchie!!!..." 💔 I love this song and will always take me back to 1987 as a 13 year old seeing the end part of the movie "La Bamba." That movie broke my heart.
I danced my girlfriend into the bedroom when this beautiful song was playing......We are 74 now and still play this masterpiece and still dance our way to the bedroom, ha.
When I was little, (early 70's), we had a black and white TV, but then we got a color TV, and I noticed that some of the old shows were still in black and white. So I asked why, and my mother told me that "everything was just black and white back then", so I naturally thought she meant _everything_ was black and white, and assumed that color was a recent invention.
I'm 80 and this song takes me back k to dances in the gymnasium, slow dancing with beautiful girls and feeling like I'm in heaven. It felt like a right of passage. This was in 1959, what a year! ❤
I’m 75 So I was 14. I remember rushing home from school every day to turn on American Bandstand. It would always be in full swing. We wanted to wear what the girls wore and would copy their hairdo’s. I remember before you could get those big round rollers in the south we would save the roll in the toilet paper and cut it in half until we had enough for our hair and used Bobby pins to secure them when we rolled our hair on them. We knew all the regulars by name and of course getting the yearbook was a must. I still have mine and the dance contest winners are in it. One of my favorite couples were Joanie and Jimmy and I think they were winners but I don’t remember if they were 1st place.
There is, if you look hard enough. And there’s a lot of this stuff on Spotify, and when you find it, it won’t stop coming in. If you want I can send you a few songs with this type of style that are all pretty new.
I just want to say, I am 27 years old and this song speaks to my soul like no other. I plan to dance to this with my fiancé in a few months. What a tune.
I'm 15, and this song makes me happy but sad, it makes me think of when I was younger, and life wasn't so stressful, when it was happy, and I know it only gets worse from here
Having lived in Hawaii I thought this sounded like an island tune. It seemed strange that an Italian family from Brooklyn, NY would somehow create a polynesian-sounding song. Turns out they were taught steel slide guitar playing by someone from the islands. This is from the wiki page: "Within two years, Santo was performing in amateur shows using a new Gibson six-string steel guitar and had started receiving lessons from a steel guitar teacher who had studied in Hawaii."
@@DougieFresh If you grew up in the islands you would have been shocked to find out it was not a local song - that's how accurate the style is. Santo was taught by an authentic player and had very good, careful attention to the style. He reproduced it exactly. When you compare the tune to traditional Italian music - which is very distinctive and a style all its own - Santo's "Sleep Walk" did not incorporate any aspect of traditional Italian music styles. It was as if he grew up in the islands, playing polynesian music - that's how good he interpreted it.
A BIG-TIME SHOUT OUT TO SANTO AND JOHNNY FARINA,WHO AS OF FEBRUARY 17,2021,ARE BOTH STILL ALIVE AND WELL.SANTO IS 83 NOW AND JOHNNY IS 79 NOW.THANKS YOU BOTH FOR A GREAT SONG THAT I STILL LOVE TO HEAR FROM TIME TO TIME.
Hell Yes... Memories that mean something... I saw today that this song was left off of a greatest Instrumental Hits list and I knew... Somebody needs to get fired...Ya think?
Those people don’t understand how lucky they are to hear such beautiful music right in front of them Wow this song helped me through my depression last year, in my first year of uni, I’m in second year now and I didn’t see myself here tbh... thank you all for the comments and likes I’m glad I can see them. Thanks to these legends. I wish you all a happy new year 2020 🧡. 31/12/19
sylvia man... n they’re dead right? both of them. imagine if they were to see how many people know them and how many people love this. this is so sad to the point that it makes me wanna cry. may they rest in peace
briana I think of that but then I think would they even reconginse my love for them since I am a blk women and in those days I don’t even think they were allowed in the concerts but none the less they are talents i hope they were good people
This hits different when your sitting on a hill on a cool night with the gentle breeze brushing against your face while you stare up into the beautiful stary night 🌙 🎶 ✨
I love songs you can just close your eyes to while listening and picture all kinds of imaginative things or situations just from the feel of the music alone ❤ this song has always been one of my favorites even as a child, and I was born in 1989’ but always had seriously deep love for moving songs just like this one!
I feel like this is one of those songs that touches your heart no matter how old you are. Im 27 and I've played this song for the past 20 yrs (since little) whenever im at peace or when i'm down. It brings so much nostalgia and sweet memories. Even my nephew, 8 yrs old love this lmao
Such a thoughtful thing to do. It was the number one hit in September, 1959. I think anyone who grew up in the 1950's fondly remembers this beautiful song.
I think they were inspired by God to write this music! Wishing my hubby was here now so we could slow dance to this. Miss my honey who is in heaven now…
I was a little girl when I heard this song I am now 64 years old and it still bring me back to when my mother used to play it Shirley Collins rest in peace always I love you Mom😢
easily top 5 best songs in the human history. No lyrics, just pure melody and this thing move your emotions so much, very very incredible. doesnt matter your age this will move you.
Frl like while listening a feel a heavy feeling in my heart and like as if I’m going thru all emotions at once.. it makes me wanna cry cus it’s just so heavenly 😍
I've had a weird experience with this song. So when I was a baby I apparently loved this song and it was my favorite song as a baby but of course when I grew up I didn't remember the song cause I was just a baby but just a couple months ago I discovered this song on my fyp and when it played I somehow just instantly felt like I already knew this song and it ended up being my favorite song again
My grandparents had their first slow dance at their high school prom to this song, My grandad has lung cancer and both of my grandparents had their last slow dance to this before my Grandpa died today, RIP Grandpop's🙏🏾❤
I love reading the comment section in old classic songs, it’s full of awesome stories and flashbacks. Shit, I wish I had lived this time. If you’re a person that experienced this great musical era, and you’re casually reading this comment, I feel respectfully jealous hahaha. Thank you folks for sharing your memories with youngsters like me. 🙏🏻❤️
You have the right to feel jealous as it was a great time with even greater music. Being born in 1945 I grew up listening to 50s and 60s music which we loving call "oldies but goodies" now in 2020 and there has never been any better music made since then. That is why I still listen to it and prefer it over anything made in today's world. I lived in Memphis most of my life, the home of Elvis (King of Rock n Roll) along with Sun and Stax Records and so many great Memphis bands and entertainers. And yes I grew up doing those dances seen in the movie "Dirty Dancing" which had a great soundtrack of music from the 60s. I wish I could relive it all over again and again as I have so many great memories from that time. Thank you for loving my era and my kind of music!!
Alta Sanders I was born in 2004 and when I was around five or six dirty dancing was my favorite movie. I loved the soundtrack and still love and watch it to this day Probably shouldn’t have been watching it at that age but oh well 😂
This was my grandmother’s favorite song and when I learned guitar this was the only thing she wanted me to learn, I am glad I was able to play it for her, this song is her to me
I'm 74 years old and my first job was to sail which I did for 26 years. The last song I heard before changing my life forever was this song. It is permanently engraved in my memory. I hope it lasts forever. Thanks to Santo and Johnny for creating "Sleepwalk"
One of the best Iconic melodies of that era N it is still as strong as ever. Just beautiful listening to this lovely sound of the steel guitar crying over N over. I play this melody more than once a day....💕🥀
Imagine it's summer 1959 and you're 14 years old, in a sleeping-bag in your back yard at 3:00 am, looking up at the stars and listing to Santo & Johnny playing "Sleep Walk" via your head set. It doesn't get better than that.
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I'm 66 and every time I hear this song reminds me of my mom. She was an avid skater back in the day. She and the roller rinks' owner used to go out on the floor and skate a waltz to this song. So I've always been a fan of this song since it first came out. I still see those two ladies waltzing to this song today. Love you and miss you mom.
Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny is a classic and a great song from the golden era of music that will never be repeated! I know I have heard it in a movie too. I've said it before and I will say it again "If you got to grow up in the 50's through the 80's with all those awesome movies & music YOU were blessed!"
I was born in early '48 and I count my blessings. Earliest memories are of the rubbish from the early 50's. Then along came Elvis, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly et all which was great, then in '63 came the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, the Who, Animals... The three songs that 'blew m,y mind' were 'that'll be the day (Holly, '57) then in '63 'it's all over now (Stones) and 'you really got me' (Kinks '64). Not to say that the Who, Animals etc didn't have a profound impact as well... Oh how fuckin' lucky to be around then
"NOT MY RITCHIE!!!!!!!!!" Love this song, even 40 years after I first heard it, this master piece hits you in all your emotions. What a great song! This is a classic Chicano lowrider favorite.
This song came out arnd the time my brother died in a drowning accident on our last day of vacation. 63 yrs ago tody. He was such a gd kid. We never fought. Just luved ea other I hope I gt to see him in heaven some day. Miss him so much 😪
My dad loved this song. He passed two days ago and ue is heavy in my heart. I miss you. Danny Anthony Chavez May you rest in paradise woth baby Danny. Youll never be forgotten. You truly left a mark on my soul.❤
Lexis i am sure your dad will have front row seats to see anytime everytime. This song has that effect where it always reminds you of those who have gone and no longer around. I hope your healing ok it is a giant hole not having dad around but atleast this will give you lasting memories of your father untill you shall meet him one day in heaven. X Rob Perth Western Australia
This is timeless, how many people must have had fall in love and slowly danced while this playing and how many millions of people thinking of that love that gone away while listening to it.. Just beautiful no more words to describe it
"Sleepwalk" is the perfect name for this song. Make me imagine warm Southern California nights as the Fifties tumbled into the Sixties...duck-tailed greasers on bikes, crew-cut teens in hot rods, every guy with a special girl...drive-in restaurants with skating carhops and drive-in movies with necking. Kind of a stereotype, but it's an idyllic one.
Check out Brian Setzers tribute to Santo and johñy as he plays sleepwalk guitar solo out of this world . there is nothing more magical than this time period women dressed sexy classy the heels were killer the lingerie killer the men's suits ties drop dead sexy the jeans and cotton shirts clean crisp smelling like fresh air and sunshine.I am so connected to all of the people and time.dreamy
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and just coming up with this masterpiece. Makes me regret similar feelings when I suddenly get the urge to play guitar in the middle of the night. It’s like the moon just has this effect on people
I once had a dream where i was sitting in a car listening to the radio when a song by Bob Dylan came on, it wasnt a song that was ever written by Dylan nor by anyone else, i looked it up when i woke up and it surely didnt exist. I should have kept it in my mind and put it to real paper. the song was called "Casual Hill Destroyers.":
Thanks for your service in the great USAF. As I always say, when you need a job done, call Air Force Blue. My dad was in the USAAC from 1939 though WWII, until the new branch was created in 1947 and he was in for 20 until 1958 or 59 and saw service in England 1944, D-Day, the Berlin Airlift, and the Korean War each time as a ground crew chief not a pilot as he never flew.. I and my sister were born in the Boomer 50s along with 75 million other kids, and we grew up on 2 SAC bases as AF brats, long before it became Centcom. His highest rank was Master Sgt, 6 stripes. Dad's record collection introduced me to swing and big band era music. Age 5 I discovered the huge record player he kept upstairs and his Glenn Miller albums.I think he once told me he saw Miller live before he died over the English Channel when his plane went down in 1944. In The Mood was the first LP I ever played. Our little Motorola radio, with tubes was essential for hearing early rock n roll. I heard Elvis's Hound Dog on it one day and couldn't believe my ears. I picked up the radio and stared into it. That Motorola stayed with me into the 1960s and I and my sister would wait for the Friday national countdown of Top 40 hits. By 1964 it was of course the Beatles. In fact in December 1963 I heard my first Beatles song on it. I Saw Her Standing There. Again total astonishment. I had gotten a tape recorder for Christmas that year and I regret not holding the tape recorder up to the radio and taped that moment for history. My own of course. But I think I taped other songs on it before I heard my first Beatles song. Hoagy Carmicheal's Stardust. Into the 60s I heard the Beatles Revolver played track by track, Aftermath by the Rolling Stones, and finally Sgt Peppers on the day it came out in the US, June 5, 1967. By 1969 I got a new radio from dad, an FM AM LW radio, that late at night I could pick up stations as far aways as Chicago and listened to MLB games from there. Also the Armed Forces Radio network (AFN) based out of Germany, and one night I heard Pink Floyds new album out in 69, Umagumma. Dad died in 1985 and when I think of old terrestrial radio, vs todays Digital world, I think of him. When he died, we gave him a military style funeral. Ashes thrown overboard a US Coat Guard cutter. All too obliged to honour a fellow veteran.
@@SansBinkywhen I was pregnant with my daughter I had a song come into my head, and began singing it (in Spanish which I don't speak) and turns out it was a song called Senorita Bonita by Engelbert Humperdink. I have yet to find a version fully in Spanish 😂 I think some of us hit holes in the time continuum
I listened to this song on my twin brothers funeral it was our favorite song he said to me "if I die I want you to play me this song" at last minute of the funeral I remembered this song and told my dad to put it on😥😭👊
You capsulated it beautifully. It’s haunting and nostalgic. A memory I don’t even have but makes me sad. Happy to hear you feel the same when you hear this song. All the best to you. Keep this song near and dear!
This reminds me soo much of my Uncle.. He passed away 2 years ago of cancer 😢.. He was such a happy soul, damn i miss him and my Dad.. Those were my guys ❤
We used to slow dance to this song when I was in 9th grade and now I'm 73, 74, 75 and counting. 05.02.2021. 76 today, 04.14.2022. I'm still here my friends. It is now 4.19.2023 and I just turned 77. I'm hangin' on. Well my friends, today is April 14th, 2024. I am still here hangin' on and doing well. 78 today. Thank you all so very much for your past and future posts. I wish I could meet everyone of you personally and thank you but we know that can't happen. Life has been good to me. I would like to pass along some things that may help you get to where I am in life in case you don't hear from me again. 1. Give people the benefit of doubt. Forgive but don't forget. Guard your heart. Most people are good people and treat them as such. 2. Marry well and you'll live a good life. If a man treats his mother well, he'll treat you well. 3. Love your children and grandchildren unconditionally. None of us are perfect. We all make mistakes. Remember that when someone makes a mistake against you. 4. If you don't believe in a God, believe in something. It will help you get through the tough times in life in which we will all come across eventually. Hope to talk to you all next April. Tom
mrknotthall
Talk about nostalgia
Congratulations on making it so far to 73. We need more elders in the teaching of us younger generations.
@@wolfrickelly5148 Well, it wasn't for lack of partying. I did my share of it and I had a praying mom. I think that helped.
@@mrknotthall Good moms are hard to come by... And Dads as a matter of a fact. Hopefully that wisdom you gained over the years can be passed down. Have a blessed day.
Junior high dance, November 1969, a lovely girl asked _me_ to dance with her as this song commenced. To this day I don't know how I kept my composure when every part of me was vibrating like a tuning fork. I remember the smell of her Heaven Scent perfume, the light creating fine shadows on her perfect complexion and the streamers hung in the cafeteria for the occasion swaying gently as we danced. I got picked up from the dance by my father and the scene from To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck where Atticus Finch shoots a rabid dog was showing on The Saturday Night Movie when we arrived home; it must have been 10 PM or so.
Imagine that! You're in your bed in your apartment in Brooklyn in 1959 at 2AM and you hear this coming out of someone's window! The luckiest neighbors in all eternity!
I know
Imagine you are in the middle of the desert, in another planet, on a carousel that only works when you get on it. And this song plays, brainwashing you.
I would have thrown a brick through their window and if that didn't shut them up would have kicked their door in and beat their skinny asses.
yeah bro
❤👌
The night before I joined the Air Force, I stayed up most of the night and early morning playing my 45 RPM record collection. "Sleepwalk" was the last record on the last stack. When it completed, ,I lifted the arm that holds the records above the spindle and let the song play over and over again. I probably played it twenty times, while reflecting on the past and what might be in my future. After completing basic training in Texas, they put a bunch of us on a bus heading for tech school in Mississippi. When we got to Beaumont, we pulled into a diner for lunch. As I walked into the place I heard "Sleep Walk" playing on the jukebox. It made me instantly home sick and I returned to the bus, miserable and waited for the others to finish eating and continuing our journey to Mississippi. That was 59 years ago. Still think about that day every time I hear the song.
Dad was in the Air Force back in the 50's and met Fat's Domino , just playing in a bar.
Thanks for sharing that story sir. 🙂
What was the diner called that y’all stopped at?
Thank you for sharing that moment , it was powerful for me , as I am older and understand how your moment is so significant in your life .
What an amazing post. Put me right there with you as I love music and probably would've done the same thing... stay up all night listening to music before I left. Thank you for your service.
How many listen to this gem in 2024
All day today I’ve had this song playing in my head and I’m so thankful I found it!!! I just love this song. It’s so soothing and beautiful… ❤️❤️❤️
me
Me
Looked it up after my nonna was listening to it
me
Proof that music never has an expiration date
Absolutely true!
That hits hard, damn
except today
Yep
Except maybe Limp Bizkit ?
When our world ends, this will be playing in the final credits
Just a cut to black after I put something in the microwave. Who is the director and executive producer?
Yep
This comment needs like 100k likes
@@maddmaxxpain Justin Bieber
Nah
For a song with no lyrics it moves so many emotions absolutely beautiful
U get that with Instrumental i just made a tape of only Instruments no lyrics or vocals just another style with abit of Research it's wonderful
Don't need lyrics. I've always found the most soothing music to always be instrumental only. Something about speaking emotions without words is one of the most beautiful things I can think of. I can cry easier listening to music without words.
@@TheCRTman instrumentals can do that with all the emotions with only sound can do that
@@paultreadaway102 Call me crazy, but I've teared up hearing certain engine sounds lol. The combination of power steering pumps, hydraulic driven cooling fans, exhaust growl and of course the engine hum all working in harmony just makes me so happy that I tear up. It sounds like music. There's even major and minor note combos.
@@TheCRTman the heartstrings this one brings certain songs do aswell and others i get into it's weird how certain music the same styles go one extreme to another happy or sad
I'm 89 and I remember dancing to this song in 1955 and I still.love it.
I want what you have mam. A long life and one in a time that seemed so much more genuine and authentic than the one we have today.
Absolutely the best song
I too remember and I am 76❤️
Then you have good taste 🤗🤗
i don't know what you were dancing to in 1955 but it wasn't this song...the song was released in '59
shhhh@@sirslugs
This song is so strange, because it stirs so many emotions and feelings at once. Nostalgia, regret, sadness, joy, despair, hope, finality, relaxation, the feeling that you missed the one chance that you had, the feeling that you did the best you could, and it wasn’t enough. And the feeling that even though the previous statement is true, it’s all going to be alright.
@Inevermiss the accuracy 👌🏽
Dammm this is 100% true
On point! 😫
@@chrisbeckzz7603 frrr
I feel the same 😔
This is the kind of music that makes you feel like you're in the era it was written in.
Random Things that was my growing up era, it was the best.
Random Things facts😂
1959, met my husband and married my freshman year. Still love this beautiful song and other songs written in the mid 50s to late 50s and can relive a totally different and peaceful time for a little while. Thank you!!!!
It's used as part of the background music of the behind the music episode on The Day the Music Died. The best episode of the series.
The music you hear when you come across 5 scary things etc this been used on so many shorts
The originality of this song comes from a dimension beyond words.
"This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone."
Yes
Some kind of God given thing. You wake up in the wee hours and this is just there in your mind? For real??
Joe Aragon as a musician, it’s hard to describe it ...best way i can, it’s a discussion with your hands thru this instrument... and this is what they talked about at 2am ✌🏻
No such thing as “originality” .. think about it !+*^
"Ritchie!!!..." 💔 I love this song and will always take me back to 1987 as a 13 year old seeing the end part of the movie "La Bamba." That movie broke my heart.
Man everytime I hear this song I think of Ritchie 🥺 Labamba was a classic
La Bamba had me crying fr 😢
I danced my girlfriend into the bedroom when this beautiful song was playing......We are 74 now and still play this masterpiece and still dance our way to the bedroom, ha.
Будьте счастливы!!💕
What a lovely memory Tony.
love your comment i an 79 brings back great time we had first class music back in those day
You tricky devil! Keep on swinging ❤️
God Bless you both. Wonderful.
It feels weird knowing that they could see color
Fake pastor bacon chicken Eating man yes bacon chicken...
Fake pastor bacon chicken Eating man and in better quality
Just blew my mind lol
When I was little, (early 70's), we had a black and white TV, but then we got a color TV, and I noticed that some of the old shows were still in black and white. So I asked why, and my mother told me that "everything was just black and white back then", so I naturally thought she meant _everything_ was black and white, and assumed that color was a recent invention.
@@slappy8941 Lol
I’m 78 and this tune still moves me as if it were yesterday that I heard it for the first time.
I love you, Richard
@@AdDelayed pfft that was random
God bless you 🙏
...me too, I'm an oldy too.
I love jazz songs, and i think life in the 1950s are far more simple
I'm 80 and this song takes me back k to dances in the gymnasium, slow dancing with beautiful girls and feeling like I'm in heaven. It felt like a right of passage. This was in 1959, what a year! ❤
😮 lo
There was still beauty in everything!
I’m 75 So I was 14. I remember rushing home from school every day to turn on American Bandstand. It would always be in full swing. We wanted to wear what the girls wore and would copy their hairdo’s. I remember before you could get those big round rollers in the south we would save the roll in the toilet paper and cut it in half until we had enough for our hair and used Bobby pins to secure them when we rolled our hair on them. We knew all the regulars by name and of course getting the yearbook was a must. I still have mine and the dance contest winners are in it. One of my favorite couples were Joanie and Jimmy and I think they were winners but I don’t remember if they were 1st place.
Wow, thank you for sharing Kathryn ❤️🥺
Thank you for sharing this ❤️
I’m 73 I know what you mean
so sweet
I think would’ve gotten together and been good friends ❤️
Makes you feel things at 2 AM
Funny you say that, as I type this at 2 in the morning hahaha
That's accurate.
RICHIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, its only 1
Its when the big ideas hit
There will never be music like this again.
If there was it would be copyrighted.
Randy Coburn oh there will
There is, if you look hard enough. And there’s a lot of this stuff on Spotify, and when you find it, it won’t stop coming in. If you want I can send you a few songs with this type of style that are all pretty new.
Travis Harms name a few please
Travis Harms what are some of the songs?
I just want to say, I am 27 years old and this song speaks to my soul like no other. I plan to dance to this with my fiancé in a few months. What a tune.
I'm 15, and this song makes me happy but sad, it makes me think of when I was younger, and life wasn't so stressful, when it was happy, and I know it only gets worse from here
Literally, Me too
@@Woshyrrwait till you hit your early 20s
Nobody cares cringe lord
At the time, those two young men had no ideal that this song would be an everlasting classic.
so did elvis
@@gabaghoul23 Elvis stole all his music. Great artist, but he was a hack
And that we would be watching them perform on YT 64 years later!
its the "abandoned places then and now" song
YES
Song is so beautiful yet has almost a depressing sound to it. Makes me think of life. Cheers to whoever sees this
Cheers to you too god bless✝️
Having lived in Hawaii I thought this sounded like an island tune. It seemed strange that an Italian family from Brooklyn, NY would somehow create a polynesian-sounding song.
Turns out they were taught steel slide guitar playing by someone from the islands. This is from the wiki page:
"Within two years, Santo was performing in amateur shows using a new Gibson six-string steel guitar and had started receiving lessons from a steel guitar teacher who had studied in Hawaii."
Greg Chase that’s pretty sweet if true! Thanks for the info! Cheers
@@DougieFresh If you grew up in the islands you would have been shocked to find out it was not a local song - that's how accurate the style is. Santo was taught by an authentic player and had very good, careful attention to the style. He reproduced it exactly.
When you compare the tune to traditional Italian music - which is very distinctive and a style all its own - Santo's "Sleep Walk" did not incorporate any aspect of traditional Italian music styles. It was as if he grew up in the islands, playing polynesian music - that's how good he interpreted it.
I concur with you.
A BIG-TIME SHOUT OUT TO SANTO AND JOHNNY FARINA,WHO AS OF FEBRUARY 17,2021,ARE BOTH STILL ALIVE AND WELL.SANTO IS 83 NOW AND JOHNNY IS 79 NOW.THANKS YOU BOTH FOR A GREAT SONG THAT I STILL LOVE TO HEAR FROM TIME TO TIME.
May god bless them to live a complete life
Hell Yes... Memories that mean something... I saw today that this song was left off of a greatest Instrumental Hits list and I knew... Somebody needs to get fired...Ya think?
@@garytaylortv EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GET FIRED FOR THAT BLUNDER
Tell them if you see them I said hello! and thankyou! for the coolest rock and roll song ever!
So they were Italian-Americans? Nice
My fathers favorite song. Rest in peace dear old Dad. Miss you !
Sucks losing a parent, wasn't my mom's favorite but it make me think of her for some reason
Shit the neighbors knew it was a hit thats why they didn't say anything.
Lol that's good .
They were sleepwalking on the boys 😆
And after it became viral they'll be like,,
"I F*CKING CALLED IT"
Helps relaxing, so to have a nice night's sleep.
underrated comment right here.
These gentlemen are still with us today in 2023 and I think I send a warm thank you, still, today for this beautiful instrumental. Just lovely, sirs.
santo passed away in 2021 unfortunately but johnny is still with us
@@SingleWingAcademysad that santo’s gone but can’t believe we still got johnny
I am love this music it sow nice loveling really
@@SingleWingAcademyWhere'd you get that? I can't find any records of his death
@@-Batman- I guess there's the mandela effect to blame for this. My sources don't find any hint on Santo's passing, either.
This song makes me happy and sad at the same time.
Me too. Reminds me some memories...
There's a word for this : melancholy.
Change da world. My final mesage, Goodb ye
Dead.. it is
Good call on that. Absolutely.
Appreciating wonderful music in 2024. Thanks.
After watching the plane scene in La Bamba this song hits different.
RITCHIE!!!!!!
@@TonyDracon Not my Richie!!!!
Fucking eitchieeeeee
Yes it does, doesn't it..
Ritchie!
If I was their neighbor and I heard this at 2am, I wouldn't complain at all, just go back to sleep more relaxing
Miguel Mejia 😂
If I was their neightbor, I just would start to cry of sadness, then of happiness and then sleep
I'd go over and watch the show
@@linarey6485 u cute
Same last name
My grandma's favorite song. We lost her on the 10th and it's be really hard. Makes me feel like she's with me
Aw 🥺❤️
Prayers 🙏
my condolences.
L
my condolences
This is the song that they play while you’re in the waiting room to get into heaven
And they play 'Macarena' in Hell's waiting room
This the song for bo2 diner
@@choobaka_Savage no it's not
Because it's precious
😂😂😂😂good one bro
Those people don’t understand how lucky they are to hear such beautiful music right in front of them
Wow this song helped me through my depression last year, in my first year of uni, I’m in second year now and I didn’t see myself here tbh... thank you all for the comments and likes I’m glad I can see them. Thanks to these legends. I wish you all a happy new year 2020 🧡. 31/12/19
sylvia man... n they’re dead right? both of them. imagine if they were to see how many people know them and how many people love this. this is so sad to the point that it makes me wanna cry. may they rest in peace
briana I think of that but then I think would they even reconginse my love for them since I am a blk women and in those days I don’t even think they were allowed in the concerts but none the less they are talents i hope they were good people
Infront*
@@briana8133 They are both still alive, and Johnny the guitar player still tours.
Any they're clapping on 1 and 3... thanks for ruining the song.
Good thing is they got up at 2am and wrote this song other wise we would never have this beautiful song
Imagine you're sleeping next door and you hear this coming out next door
@Tony Porter why you so mad
@Tony Porter salty much
@Tony Porter why
@Tony Porter your right its not a song its a tune
Tiktok brought me here! 2024. My parents loved this song. I grew up hearing it at least 3 tines a day.
Tiktok? Really... Not saying tiktoks lame but it seems kinda weird saying u came from tiktok but for songs fire
They raised you absolutely and truly “right” ❤
2019 and still get chills from hearing this.
Wow thanks for the likes, never had that many.
ASMR
2/3/2019
The warmness of this song will never die my dude
Yeah man, i just didn't know what word to use
same
i wonder if they ever thought for a second this song would last forever.
They did... it's why they got up in the middle of the night to write it down.
Who knew.
Ssargrettal Nosaj headass
damn i’m high as fuck n i felt this question
This hits different when your sitting on a hill on a cool night with the gentle breeze brushing against your face while you stare up into the beautiful stary night 🌙 🎶 ✨
*you’re
@@muffinsdawg shh 👀
@@joesamabinbiden6663 sorry I can’t help it
Ah
That's beautiful
I love songs you can just close your eyes to while listening and picture all kinds of imaginative things or situations just from the feel of the music alone ❤ this song has always been one of my favorites even as a child, and I was born in 1989’ but always had seriously deep love for moving songs just like this one!
I’m 15 and have discovered this song. For as long as I’m alive there will still be somebody listening to this. It is a masterpiece.
I'm 15 too. And I completely agree. It's nostalgic even though it's past my time
17 here, and boy when I grow old and grey I'll listen to this and show it to my grandkids (if i'm fortunate to have)
22, young bulls. Such masterful music captivates all ages and audiences. Glad some of the younger generation still has good taste
16 here, i absolutely love the part from 1:57 to 2:22
13 here, one of my favourite song ever
Can anyone else imagine themselves just drifting through space listening to this?
You don't have to imagine. You're doing it right now; going thousands of kilometers a minute, on a giant rock.
I just imagine that im going to sample this golden piece.
ah totally
Just smoke some weed bro
@@noahcsa6470 just stomp on it lol
Beautiful, I have been listening to Sleep Walk for a long time I'm 77 years old and I never get tired of Sleep Walk.
My mom had an am radio she would play oldies station when I was 5,shes 74 now,tired an sick but these songs she still dances to
You right there when it came out !! Lucky you !!
You were
wow. I’m a 16 year old. I got damn well kno that old classic music is better and far far better than today’s stuff!
isaiahstop agreed
I feel like this is one of those songs that touches your heart no matter how old you are. Im 27 and I've played this song for the past 20 yrs (since little) whenever im at peace or when i'm down. It brings so much nostalgia and sweet memories. Even my nephew, 8 yrs old love this lmao
This song makes me feel like I am missing a whole time I never experienced.
Wow,that's so spot on to describe it. I feel it
This is so fitting for The Irishman because that's exactly what Frank felt at the end
me too!
Same, it‘s like I feel the music and I want to travel back in time.
How did you explain that so well???
I wish music like this would make a comeback. The best thing about it though is it doesn't have to; it's timeless ;)
Yesss
For real
It really is.
v
You should look up pokey Lafarge, he is awesome!
Played this at my moms funeral in 2012. What a beautiful song.
Sorry for your loss
Hope your doing okay man
Such a thoughtful thing to do. It was the number one hit in September, 1959. I think anyone who grew up in the 1950's fondly remembers this beautiful song.
+LoveFlatfootin1 Thank you. She was born in 1956. I also just learned this beautiful tune on guitar. Love playing it, so relaxing.
+Billo1281 I'm sorry for your loss and I hope you are doing well.
I think they were inspired by God to write this music! Wishing my hubby was here now so we could slow dance to this. Miss my honey who is in heaven now…
God rest his soul and God bless you ❤❤
sorry 4 ur loss dear
My dream is to have this song playing while I'm cruising in my 1950 Mercury custom on a late Friday night all by myself
can i join u
count me in too
You turn on your hi beams and there’s a deer 10 yards in front of you..
@@elliot2107 Sorry guys, he said he wanted to be alone. Lol, How about you and the lady above me carpool?
I drive my old 1981 GMC short box stepside and love to play this song. I am almost seventy and still love this song even after playing thousand times.
Unbelievable how I'm listening to this 61 years later in 2020
Same here . This was Aug 1st and on Aug 3rd I turned 15. Wow , and I felt all grown up . Lol
61+ year old streaming pubg... 🧢
Zombie Prodigy can I grab a kiss from you
Because it has a unique sound it and no one now a days make something like this.
Lmao shut up 15 year old
Thank you for waking up your brother
I was a little girl when I heard this song I am now 64 years old and it still bring me back to when my mother used to play it Shirley Collins rest in peace always I love you Mom😢
If I die a slow death I wanna listen to this in my last moments
Wow!!!
bruh what a way to go
Same dude✨
Same
Same here.
This song is absolute perfection. Could be the most beautiful thing ever recorded.
You're absolutely correct. This song never gets old and will live on forever.
Or Love's Theme by Love Unlimited Orchestra
Next to Albatross by FleetwoodMac
easily top 5 best songs in the human history. No lyrics, just pure melody and this thing move your emotions so much, very very incredible. doesnt matter your age this will move you.
@@bwilson5401 not even close.
I feel like the song somehow captures every single feeling, every single part of life at once. Maybe the best song ever written.
Frl like while listening a feel a heavy feeling in my heart and like as if I’m going thru all emotions at once.. it makes me wanna cry cus it’s just so heavenly 😍
its not a song because it has no words but an instrumental and a beautiful one
@@soofitnsexy its a instrumental song, gotcha?
@@ta_pegandofogo2988 no its an instrumental.
I've had a weird experience with this song. So when I was a baby I apparently loved this song and it was my favorite song as a baby but of course when I grew up I didn't remember the song cause I was just a baby but just a couple months ago I discovered this song on my fyp and when it played I somehow just instantly felt like I already knew this song and it ended up being my favorite song again
My grandparents had their first slow dance at their high school prom to this song, My grandad has lung cancer and both of my grandparents had their last slow dance to this before my Grandpa died today, RIP Grandpop's🙏🏾❤
May your grandfather rest in peace buddy ❤
I love reading the comment section in old classic songs, it’s full of awesome stories and flashbacks. Shit, I wish I had lived this time. If you’re a person that experienced this great musical era, and you’re casually reading this comment, I feel respectfully jealous hahaha. Thank you folks for sharing your memories with youngsters like me. 🙏🏻❤️
Marcos Montoya i'm feeling the same way😂
You have the right to feel jealous as it was a great time with even greater music. Being born in 1945 I grew up listening to 50s and 60s music which we loving call "oldies but goodies" now in 2020 and there has never been any better music made since then. That is why I still listen to it and prefer it over anything made in today's world. I lived in Memphis most of my life, the home of Elvis (King of Rock n Roll) along with Sun and Stax Records and so many great Memphis bands and entertainers. And yes I grew up doing those dances seen in the movie "Dirty Dancing" which had a great soundtrack of music from the 60s. I wish I could relive it all over again and again as I have so many great memories from that time. Thank you for loving my era and my kind of music!!
i know right 🥺
Sad to think if we were Mexican we would’ve been racially abused
Alta Sanders I was born in 2004 and when I was around five or six dirty dancing was my favorite movie. I loved the soundtrack and still love and watch it to this day
Probably shouldn’t have been watching it at that age but oh well 😂
My Grandma used to Crip walk to this
Respect...
lol xD
Wut!? Lmao!
😳😲😬😖 🤣😂🤣😂 😁😉
That shit is too good 🥴✨
This is a 2am song for thinking about life... just incredible
Frfr
Or when a dude can't get it up
Eu 02:04 da manhã
it’s 2:30
For me, it's 3:10 am, not too far off.
Decades later it still chills the emotions, stirs the senses and invigorates the mind.
Its crazy. I heard this as a kid watching LaBamba....and it still has a powerful deathly feel to it.
This was my grandmother’s favorite song and when I learned guitar this was the only thing she wanted me to learn, I am glad I was able to play it for her, this song is her to me
What a hero.
Bless You sir
Good for you man. I'm sure she very was proud of you, and im glad you have the song to think of your grandma whenever you like!
Beautiful !
Respect, grandma raised a real nigga
I'm 74 years old and my first job was to sail which I did for 26 years. The last song I heard before changing my life forever was this song. It is permanently engraved in my memory. I hope it lasts forever. Thanks to Santo and Johnny for creating "Sleepwalk"
Wow
Great memory Norm. Thanks for sharing..👍🏻
Amazing
"NOT MY RITCHIEEEEE!!!!" 😭....I cry every time I hear this song!
I was wondering if I was the only one who recognized this song from "La Bamba."
what a scene too, you felt her pain like if she really lost her son 😭
@@hellspawn328 Ritchie Valens we belong together
A movie too sad
The day the music died
One of the best Iconic melodies of that era N it is still as strong as ever. Just beautiful listening to this lovely sound of the steel guitar crying over N over. I play this melody more than once a day....💕🥀
La Bamba is on Netflix now n this part makes me cry :( this song is truly beautiful
I thought Ritchie Valens wrote this song did he not???
@@jamesturncliff5960 no lol
stagga lee tf you rambling on about
RITCHHIIEEEEEEEEEEE
You Toobe lol damn you good?
In my opinion, this is the most perfectly named song ever. Still gives me goosebumps after all these years.
YES SO BEAUTIFUL!!
Such a spooky creepy song when you hear the ERRRRRRRRIURRR perfect for a horror movie
this is my lounge bands' closing number for 35 years..never fails.
Hector Razo omfg this is an a trailer for a horror movie now
Imagine it's summer 1959 and you're 14 years old, in a sleeping-bag in your back yard at 3:00 am, looking up at the stars and listing to Santo & Johnny playing "Sleep Walk" via your head set. It doesn't get better than that.
Pretty sure they didn’t have headsets in 1959 😂
metro.ivann _
Actually...
🎧 www.koss.com/blog/sp-series-press-release/
I think more to the point you wouldn't have been outside with the headset. No walkman or iPod in the 50s
more likely to be listening on one of these. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Emerson_Model_888_Pioneer_8-Transistor_AM_Radio%2C_Made_in_the_USA%2C_Circa_1958_%2821973868670%29.jpg/330px-Emerson_Model_888_Pioneer_8-Transistor_AM_Radio%2C_Made_in_the_USA%2C_Circa_1958_%2821973868670%29.jpg
Pretty sure headsets werent invented for at least another few years
I'm 66 and every time I hear this song reminds me of my mom. She was an avid skater back in the day. She and the roller rinks' owner used to go out on the floor and skate a waltz to this song. So I've always been a fan of this song since it first came out. I still see those two ladies waltzing to this song today. Love you and miss you mom.
Que recuerdo mas hermoso ❤
This song is so hauntingly beautiful. Melancholy. Always have loved this song. Transports me back to a time when I wasn't alive
STILL one of the prettiest melodies even in 2023
2024*
Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny is a classic and a great song from the golden era of music that will never be repeated! I know I have heard it in a movie too. I've said it before and I will say it again "If you got to grow up in the 50's through the 80's with all those awesome movies & music YOU were blessed!"
70s through 90s and i am blessed with the curse of this BS now
I hope so
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
True!
I was born in early '48 and I count my blessings. Earliest memories are of the rubbish from the early 50's. Then along came Elvis, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly et all which was great, then in '63 came the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, the Who, Animals... The three songs that 'blew m,y mind' were 'that'll be the day (Holly, '57) then in '63 'it's all over now (Stones) and 'you really got me' (Kinks '64). Not to say that the Who, Animals etc didn't have a profound impact as well... Oh how fuckin' lucky to be around then
"NOT MY RITCHIE!!!!!!!!!" Love this song, even 40 years after I first heard it, this master piece hits you in all your emotions. What a great song! This is a classic Chicano lowrider favorite.
La Bamba !......ritchieee
Bob why not you ...
❤❤❤ same
Could never listen to this song without hearing "RITCHIEEE!!"
RichieEEEEE 😢
If you listen to this In 2024 like this comment😅
Absolute music perfection. Even in 2015. Timeless.
Amen
Hell yes 😭❤️👌
yes!!
I could agree more💜💜
Shae Marie just good wholesome pure music. You know it's just amazing when a song can evoke so many emotions without saying even a word.
Craziest thing is that these cats are both still performing together occasionally (though Santo is semi-retired)
had no idea! wow, thats awesome
Wowww
2 brothers in a band that keep in touch and still do what makes them money? Mind boggling...lol.
@@thotsnpreyers It's about them being very old.
I heard that Santo passed away in 2016 tho
Is it just me or does this lower quality sound, sound better than the original
CityOfSandwiches yes dude like the crackles in the back
They are miming to the original..Hands in the position of C but the track is playing in Db..
Pitch is between C and Db, so probably track was sped up a bit somewhere along the line.
they weren't actually playing this live
How do you know this?
Some songs don’t need words this is one of them❤
I imagine this song playing in the background when the world ends...
Richie!!!!
Ok
I’m more the of the first two minutes of the end by the doors
Why do I find that comforting?
I’ll die happily
I always felt like I am the only young one into all the oldies and classics. It is rather hard to meet people into these songs. This is perfection ❤
+Zainah Meqdadi I'm with ya baby sister!
bohat bara ahsan kiya hey dunya pey
+Zainah Meqdadi with u 100%
i feel you im 15 and bump this
17 going on 18 and still loving oldies
I want this played at my funeral
ight then
Well make it happen
we got you
+Siro Betancourt do this to my funeral plz
I got you bro
3 1/2 years ago I lost my wife of 47 years. If only I could dance with her one more time to this song.
That made me almost cry and the song synced to it and as I finished the comment the song had ended.
I def cried@@TotallyJuice
Hope you meet a new woman soon
@@donaldpump3072 no, just no.
I am so sorry for your loss
This song came out arnd the time my brother died in a drowning accident on our last day of vacation. 63 yrs ago tody. He was such a gd kid. We never fought. Just luved ea other I hope I gt to see him in heaven some day. Miss him so much 😪
Bless you and yours, Monica
@@rumahindahtropis thank u. My daugther is about to have a baby soon so that will b a 😊 joy
You will see him again, just trust in God. ✝️
Si lo volverás a ver porque Dios lo ha prometido y lo cumplirá solo tenga fé y confía en Dios y verás cosas maravillosas
❤❤❤❤❤❤
My dad loved this song.
He passed two days ago and ue is heavy in my heart. I miss you. Danny Anthony Chavez
May you rest in paradise woth baby Danny.
Youll never be forgotten. You truly left a mark on my soul.❤
Lexis i am sure your dad will have front row seats to see anytime everytime. This song has that effect where it always reminds you of those who have gone and no longer around. I hope your healing ok it is a giant hole not having dad around but atleast this will give you lasting memories of your father untill you shall meet him one day in heaven. X Rob Perth Western Australia
My deepest condolences to you. May his memory live on.
Rip
My condolences to you. May your Dad rest in peace
Lexis Bernal ok
This is timeless, how many people must have had fall in love and slowly danced while this playing and how many millions of people thinking of that love that gone away while listening to it.. Just beautiful no more words to describe it
"Sleepwalk" is the perfect name for this song. Make me imagine warm Southern California nights as the Fifties tumbled into the Sixties...duck-tailed greasers on bikes, crew-cut teens in hot rods, every guy with a special girl...drive-in restaurants with skating carhops and drive-in movies with necking. Kind of a stereotype, but it's an idyllic one.
Check out Brian Setzers tribute to Santo and johñy as he plays sleepwalk guitar solo out of this world . there is nothing more magical than this time period women dressed sexy classy the heels were killer the lingerie killer the men's suits ties drop dead sexy the jeans and cotton shirts clean crisp smelling like fresh air and sunshine.I am so connected to all of the people and time.dreamy
Sean Wilkinson What an incredibly well written memory jogger....thanx!
Sean Wilkinson What a beautiful utopia. I'd love to be there.
Sean Wilkinson What a beautiful utopia. I'd love to be there.
Sean Wilkinson it's not a song, its a ballad
I bet the feeling after creating this was amazing
I bet the feeling WHILE they were creating this was amazing.
I bet the feeling before this was sleepyness
It's an amazing song, but also strange in that it has a nostalgic feel to it no matter what era you are from.
Fr tho men
Just beautifully haunting
That's probably because of the 80's that had this song in alot of them movies🤔
@@grandspringdale1564 RITCHIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
I know right I’m was born in the 2000s still feels nostalgic.
This song is way before my time but still causes goosebumps when I listen to it.
Timeless.😌
One of the most beautiful and haunting tunes in history.
Josep Duran Fuck yeah
Not really haunting. I love this. I wish was in those times to experience this. I feel like music was way better back then.
Sir Siri haunting because it was played at the end of la bamba when Ritchie Valens died
💯
Josep Duran very well said
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and just coming up with this masterpiece. Makes me regret similar feelings when I suddenly get the urge to play guitar in the middle of the night. It’s like the moon just has this effect on people
I once had a dream where i was sitting in a car listening to the radio when a song by Bob Dylan came on, it wasnt a song that was ever written by Dylan nor by anyone else, i looked it up when i woke up and it surely didnt exist. I should have kept it in my mind and put it to real paper. the song was called "Casual Hill Destroyers.":
Thanks for your service in the great USAF. As I always say, when you need a job done, call Air Force Blue. My dad was in the USAAC from 1939 though WWII, until the new branch was created in 1947 and he was in for 20 until 1958 or 59 and saw service in England 1944, D-Day, the Berlin Airlift, and the Korean War each time as a ground crew chief not a pilot as he never flew.. I and my sister were born in the Boomer 50s along with 75 million other kids, and we grew up on 2 SAC bases as AF brats, long before it became Centcom. His highest rank was Master Sgt, 6 stripes. Dad's record collection introduced me to swing and big band era music. Age 5 I discovered the huge record player he kept upstairs and his Glenn Miller albums.I think he once told me he saw Miller live before he died over the English Channel when his plane went down in 1944. In The Mood was the first LP I ever played. Our little Motorola radio, with tubes was essential for hearing early rock n roll. I heard Elvis's Hound Dog on it one day and couldn't believe my ears. I picked up the radio and stared into it. That Motorola stayed with me into the 1960s and I and my sister would wait for the Friday national countdown of Top 40 hits. By 1964 it was of course the Beatles. In fact in December 1963 I heard my first Beatles song on it. I Saw Her Standing There. Again total astonishment. I had gotten a tape recorder for Christmas that year and I regret not holding the tape recorder up to the radio and taped that moment for history. My own of course. But I think I taped other songs on it before I heard my first Beatles song. Hoagy Carmicheal's Stardust. Into the 60s I heard the Beatles Revolver played track by track, Aftermath by the Rolling Stones, and finally Sgt Peppers on the day it came out in the US, June 5, 1967. By 1969 I got a new radio from dad, an FM AM LW radio, that late at night I could pick up stations as far aways as Chicago and listened to MLB games from there. Also the Armed Forces Radio network (AFN) based out of Germany, and one night I heard Pink Floyds new album out in 69, Umagumma. Dad died in 1985 and when I think of old terrestrial radio, vs todays Digital world, I think of him. When he died, we gave him a military style funeral. Ashes thrown overboard a US Coat Guard cutter. All too obliged to honour a fellow veteran.
Most songs I’ve written have been in the middle of the night after either waking up, or just pure can’t sleep. It’s truly a mysterious creative spell
This song came from the moon for sure
@@SansBinkywhen I was pregnant with my daughter I had a song come into my head, and began singing it (in Spanish which I don't speak) and turns out it was a song called Senorita Bonita by Engelbert Humperdink. I have yet to find a version fully in Spanish 😂
I think some of us hit holes in the time continuum
We played this song at my dads memorial service. Still makes me think of him.
Always think of my dad with this music
It is a wonderful song.
Such a sad event and a sad song but a great one to remember your dad!
Cheers brother
This is no one hit wonder by chance! This is a beautiful creative tune with no vocals! This is magical from up above❤
I listened to this song on my twin brothers funeral it was our favorite song he said to me "if I die I want you to play me this song" at last minute of the funeral I remembered this song and told my dad to put it on😥😭👊
Nathan Burn damn sorry for the loss but your brother had the right idea on how the last minute of his funeral should go
Isaac Ede Larsen what’s funny about this?
Wow he waa your twim??? What aconnection. I just said this same thing. This and stairway to heaven
So sorry for your loss. There is nothing like losing a twin 🙏
My condolences. May God bless your Family with peace.
One of the most beautifully haunting songs of the time going off into the sunset in a 1959 Cadilac Coup de Ville on the west coast.
59 Caddy 👍🏻
57 bel air
I was thinking the exact same thing
65 Barracuda, both windows down, Arizona sunset, sweet girl, half wrapped around me
You too? I was 9 in 1959. I shouldn’t have been driving. My Dad drove a white Cadillac Coup de Villa with those huge fins.
I was 5 years old when this song came out. I loved it then and 62 years later I still love it!
I was 7 in the summer of 1959 when this song was on every radio in the US. I had this 45! In fact, I think I was watching this broadcast!
Us young ones love it as well. Only 30 years old and heard this in Nick Trappasso's skate video. Amazing music and timeless.
@@frdjr2527 That's funny...me too!
@@thisisme3238 WOW!!! The things we remember!
You bet Nancy!
I am 85 and remember when this gem came out. I heard it the first time and said this song is going to make it big.
Profound, sentimental, haunting, nostalgic, moving, heavenly and eternal. Simply beautiful beyond words. Thank you both for this timeless gem.
As if walking on the edges of a dream.
You captured this beautifully with your words.
Yes!
Siim
You capsulated it beautifully. It’s haunting and nostalgic. A memory I don’t even have but makes me sad. Happy to hear you feel the same when you hear this song. All the best to you. Keep this song near and dear!
Its March 1, 2019 at 1:34 am in middle of the night and I still get chills listening to this song...
3:04 am on the 30th of March. Sometimes you just need a good instrumental.
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April 11 2019 at 1:33am
April 12, 2019. At 1:34 am listening to this song 😌
April 12 it's 2:16 AM w no sleep
Crazy how a song can have no words but have so much meaning
s Od it's called melodies my brother 🙏🏽
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This reminds me soo much of my Uncle.. He passed away 2 years ago of cancer 😢.. He was such a happy soul, damn i miss him and my Dad.. Those were my guys ❤
How can you not appreciate old music like this
Christine M. exactly!!!
Love it
Christine M. I think most ppl just like what they grew up with
Sadly not every one will feel the same about the classics.... I can't say the same for the younger generation
You can't. Never again will hear such great music.