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Topic: A Thousand Miles Away - Santo and Johnny |
Nic Neufeld
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Posted 23 May 2019 2:03 pm |
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I've been on a bit of a Santo and Johnny kick lately...which matches really well with the lineup of my group right now (just me and an archtop/jazz rhythm guitarist).
I discovered this tune this week, a cover of a doowop tune by the Heartbeats. Man, it's got everything...you can tell they packed it with a lot of the "Sleep Walk" influence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkLEH9pJLdk
I've worked it out mostly on my new Clinesmith and am loving playing along with it. Santo obviously did a few overdubs to get the "bass" and "tenor" parts (you can hear sometimes they sustain into the main line, so it wasn't one take). I'm trying to simplify things a bit with a single arrangement. If I can get it down and record a vid with my guitar player I'll try to post it. Makes a nice demo for the Clinesmith pan, too!
But the end of the chorus when he hits that sharp 9 on the G7, and goes into that higher, sweet melody on the last verse, that's just great playing and melodic feel...I'm pretty stoic of a player but I can't help but throw a bit of stank-face on there  . In Hawaiian music, I'm a Jules man through and through, but Santo Farina's single note playing on jazz and popular tunes...it just oozes emotion, I love it!
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Waikīkī, at night when the shadows are falling
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Andy DePaule
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Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 23 May 2019 4:12 pm Plastic finger picks?
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Nice tune. Thanks for the post. First time I heard it too.
Plastic finger picks? I've never met anyone who used those.
Wonder what that would be like, but really like my Nationals.
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 24 May 2019 7:52 am
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I started out using plastic picks but didn't take long to switch to metal. 
Erv |
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Jeremy DeHart
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2019 4:18 am
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Here's another song that REALLY reminds me of Sleepwalk - Home by the Ventures. First I'm a huge Ventures fan so maybe I'm reading a bit too much into this, but the first Ventures album came out several months after Sleepwalk was released. This song is similar to Sleepwalk, but the Ventures also covered Sleepwalk and there are other similarities on the albums as well. All in all I think they were much inspired by the Duo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKKfyhtNWUE
Santo and Johnny first album:
Side one
"Caravan"
"Summertime"
"All Night Diner"
"Blue Moon"
"School Day"
"Sleep Walk"
Side two
"Tenderly"
"Slave Girl"
"Dream"
"Canadian Sunset"
"Harbor Lights"
"Raunchy"
Ventures First album:
Side 1
"Morgen" (Peter Mosser, Noel Sherman) – 2:07
"Raunchy" (William E. Justis Jr.) – 2:16
"Home" (Harry Clarkson, Jeff Clarkson, Peter Van Steeden) – 2:18
"My Own True Love (Tara's Theme)" (Max Steiner) – 2:14
"The Switch" (Bob Bogle, Nokie Edwards, Howard Johnson, Don Wilson) – 1:56
"Walk, Don't Run" (Johnny Smith) – 2:03
Side 2
"Night Train" (Jimmy Forrest, Lewis Simpkins, Oscar Washington) – 2:50
"No Trespassing" (Bogle, Edwards, Wilson, Johnson) – 1:58
"Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 2:09
"Sleepwalk" (Ann Farina, John Farina, Santo Farina) – 2:04
"The McCoy" (Bogle, Wilson) – 2:07
"Honky Tonk" (Billy Butler, Bill Doggett, Johnnie Scott, Shep Shepherd) – 2:44 |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2019 7:15 am
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I'm looking for the sheet music for this song.
I would like to do a tab for E9th.
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2020 11:57 am
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I couldn't find the music for "A Thousand Miles Away" but I did find it for "Daddy's Home".
The same song only with different lyrics.
This resulted in a lawsuit between the two publishers.
Erv |
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Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 31 Dec 2020 12:05 pm
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I did record a pretty lofi demo version of this tune earlier this year:
https://www.facebook.com/nic.neufeld.1/videos/10156963792051611/
Would like to have recorded a version with my guitarist, like I mentioned, but he moved to Mississippi so now he's (not quite) A Thousand Miles Away too! 
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Waikīkī, at night when the shadows are falling
I hear the rolling surf calling
Calling and calling to me |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2020 12:46 pm
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Nic,
You did good!
Erv |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 31 Dec 2020 2:04 pm Real nice
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Real nice Nic.
I'd never heard that tune before so it was a double for me.
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Bill Groner
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QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 31 Dec 2020 5:25 pm
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Very nice Nic. Andy, Sebastian uses plastic pics on every one of the videos he posted. (I think) I thought they sounded really nice. I bought some and could not handle them.
https://youtu.be/FIZ7Own1EGE
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Currently own, 6 Groner-tone lap steels, one 1953 Alamo Lap steel, Roland Cube, Fender Champion 40 |
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James Kerr
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Scotland, UK
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2021 7:50 am
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I tabbed this song out over the weekend but it sure doesn't sound like the Santo and Johnny version. 
Erv |
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Miles Lang
From:
Venturaloha
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Posted 6 Jan 2021 8:58 am
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
I tabbed this song out over the weekend but it sure doesn't sound like the Santo and Johnny version.
Erv |
What tuning did you use, Erv?
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Santo Fan Club - from the island of Coney to the sands of Rockaway
Jill Martini & The Shrunken Heads
All aloha, all the time |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2021 9:00 am
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Miles Lang
From:
Venturaloha
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Posted 6 Jan 2021 9:40 am
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I wonder how this song lays out in the C#m7 tuning Santo used on Sleep Walk and Tear Drop?
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Santo Fan Club - from the island of Coney to the sands of Rockaway
Jill Martini & The Shrunken Heads
All aloha, all the time |
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