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Topic: Teardrops by Santo Farina |
Nick Reed
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 12 Nov 2013 4:40 pm |
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| Love Santo and Johnny. It always puzzled me that Jody Carver said that it was a Stringmaster on the records. Their early stuff sounds like classic Dual/Custom...trap pickups. That razor treble and mid range honk. |
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Gregg McKenna
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South Windsor, Connecticut, USA
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 12 Nov 2013 5:56 pm
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I think Jody said it was a Custom (T-8 with trapezoid pickups) and Santo switched over to a Stringmaster a few months after the recording was made. The album cover shows a Stringmaster, but that picture was taken later, after the recording session. I think that's what Jody said. Santo plays SleepWalk on a Custom in the old TV clips from 1959. I assume that TearDrop was also played on the Custom because it was the immediate follow up to SleepWalk. It sure sounds like a trapezoid pickup. Cuts like a knife!
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 12 Nov 2013 6:44 pm
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Since I'm quoting him, it's fair that I actually cite the source. I just got lazy. Here it is:
Jody Carver
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Im a little late for this,,,but Santo Farina
never used a Custom on his recordings. Sleep
Walk was done on a Stringmaster triple. |
The entire thread is here:
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum2/HTML/000740.html
Like I said, it surprises me, because to my ear, Santo nails the tone live with that Custom... |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 12 Nov 2013 7:58 pm
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| I'm really glad a better copy of that Perry Como t.v. show appearance surfaced. That's live. I think they are faking along to the original recording on the Dick Clark show. But I have long been convinced that a Custom was used on those first recordings, with all due respect to Jody. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 12 Nov 2013 10:00 pm
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Nice work digging that up, Doug. And all is right with the world now...thanks!  |
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 13 Nov 2013 3:49 am
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That track sounds like variations on Sleepwalk to me. Good as it is, I did not "get" the slide show. Santo and Johnny records do not conjure up cheesy car graphics for me.
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Morgan Scoggins
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Georgia, USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2013 10:37 am
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You must be younger than us "Baby boomers' David. Every time I hear that doo wop chord progression it reminds me of drive in movies, muscle cars, sock hops, and drive in restaurants.
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Doug Beaumier
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Posted 13 Nov 2013 9:08 pm
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| Every time I hear that doo wop chord progression it reminds me of drive in movies, muscle cars, sock hops, and drive in restaurants. |
Yeah, American Graffiti! "Where were you in '62?"  I was in junior high school trying to grease my hair into that pompadour style! Hot rods, drive-in movies, soda shops, carhops, and hundreds of songs with that I, VIm, IV, V chord pattern in 12/8 time. I remember that era. When I hear Sleep Walk or Tear Drop I'm transported back to that time.
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Steve Allison
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Eatonton,Ga. U.S.A.
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Posted 19 Nov 2013 3:45 pm
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| Teardrop was on the B side of Sleepwalk on the original 45 rpm record. Geez I'm old! |
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Miles Lang
From:
Venturaloha
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Posted 5 Oct 2020 9:50 am
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Sorry to resurrect an old post.
Is it a I-vi-II-V chord progression?
That third chord is always a little funny with S+J, like the Fm chord in the intro to Sleep Walk.
I believe the Tear Drop recording is in F, so is that third chord a Gm (with the harp/rake) and then the harmonic riff over the C (C7?) |
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Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 5 Oct 2020 11:07 am
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Yeah, the intro sounds to me like
F - Dm - Gm - C7
The harmonic riff plays over Gm to resolve to the dominant/C7.
If your top string is (as is common) E, it would be:
H3 / 6 / 9 / 12
That's a C# diminished 7th chord, perfect for transitioning into the C that follows it. So you start the riff on beat 3 of the Gm chord measure, and land on the one of the C7 measure at fret 12.
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Morgan Scoggins
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 11:30 am
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What I remember about the chord progression was that the 4 chord which would be F in the key of C. It was often substituted for the 2 chord. This would amount to substituting a major cord for a minor chord. In the key of C the progression would be C Am F G7. This was, as remember, the same chord progression used in the Everly Brothers hit song "All I Have To Do Is Dream".
Sonny James also had a big hit "Young Love" with the 1 6 2 5 progression. The Platters had a bunch of doo wop hits.
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Jeremy DeHart
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North Carolina, USA
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 11:51 am
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| Hate to be a stickler but it's actually "Teardrop" and not the plural. It was released as a single in '59 but didn't get as far up the charts as Sleepwalk. Also they didn't release it on a full length until 1960 with their second LP "Encore". The cover I have definitely has a custom triple as you can barely make out a trap pickup. I had heard that they just used the stringmaster for the photo shoot? |
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Miles Lang
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Venturaloha
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Posted 27 Dec 2021 9:55 am
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Other than the repeat of B and A3 (S&J only play the B section once), does this chart look like it’s in the ballpark? Still not sure about the chords at the end of the B section. There’s some kind of diminished thing over the Eb note.
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Roy McKinney
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Ontario, OR
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Posted 27 Dec 2021 11:01 am
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I just dug out my copy of S&J Sleep Walk.
Mine has All Night Diner on the flip side.
The label is "Canadian American".
Don't remember the year I bought it, but it was after I heard it for the first time on the radio. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2021 11:05 am
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I have "Teardrop" tabbed for E9th. 
Erv |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2022 4:18 pm
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received via email:
| Walter Pistarini, from Italy wrote: |
I'm writing a book about Antonio Casetta, the founder/owner of various etiquettes records, like Bluebell, Produttori Associate, Canadian-American, Liberty Italian, Cicogna.
I interviewed Santo Farina in 2018. The subject was his discographic Antonio Casetta, the one that got Canadian-American and sold Santo&Johnny albums around the world.
Santo lives in New York, no more in Italy (the interview was by phone).
After the duo split, Antonio Casetta produced few more discs of Santo alone, under the italian label Cicogna:
· 1980 SANTO – MANY TASTE OF, Cicogna EMA 3001
· ???? IMMAGINI, Cicogna EML 5001 |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2022 4:28 pm
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received via email:
| Walter Pistarini, from Italy wrote: |
I'm writing a book about Antonio Casetta, the founder/owner of various etiquettes records, like Bluebell, Produttori Associate, Canadian-American, Liberty Italian, Cicogna.
I interviewed Santo Farina in 2018. The subject was his discographic Antonio Casetta, the one that got Canadian-American and sold Santo&Johnny albums around the world.
Santo lives in New York, no more in Italy (the interview was by phone).
After the duo split, Antonio Casetta produced few more discs of Santo alone, under the italian label Cicogna:
· 1980 SANTO – MANY TASTE OF, Cicogna EMA 3001
· ???? IMMAGINI, Cicogna EML 5001 |
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