I give up. There is a Santana song that I have been looking for for about a year. It is used as background music in some current commercial/s (Sorry, I don’t hear it often enough to tell you which one it is.) I have a really crappy dialup ISP, which, combined with Amazon’s too-complicated website design, has made it impossible for me to figure out what I’m looking for.
Can anyone help? (sniffle, sniffle)
I know a Citizen Cope song featuring Santana is being used in a Pontiac commercial… I think it’s “Son’s Gonna Rise.”
Could be waaaaay off base here, though.
What album?
The Clarence Greenwood Recordings. Amazon has it over here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002IRXMI
You can listen to a sample, even.
Nope, not “Son’s Gonna Rise”. Last year when a radio station was using it for bridge (?) music, I called and asked and the guy said it was off Santana’s last album. I can’t even figure out a decent discography for Santana, so I’m really up a creek.
It may be “Smooth”. It has been geting alot of airplay recently. Can’t think of any commercials though. Listen to a sample at Amazon.
Not on Shaman or Supernatural.
Not on The Best of … Vol. 1 or The Best of … Vol. 2.
Nope. Like I said, it should be off of a fairly recent album.
The only albums of all-new music Santana has released in the last ten years are Supernatural and Shaman. Ceremony (link) is an album of “Remixes & Rarities” and was released in Dec. 2003. This should be it.
Mucho thanks for the link, but, “Ack”, the song I was looking for is not there either.
Last summer I bought a CD in a “Baja Fresh Mexican Grill” that was a fund-raiser for the Milagro Foundation (a charity). It has several Santana songs I’d never heard anywhere else. You might also try www.Santana.com for a chronological discography.
Thanks for the link. Excellent samplers there, where I discovered that…
the song I am looking for is Smooth, from Supernatural.
The sample on the Amazon page did not sound familiar to me. Why the hell would they not include the tremendous guitar hook in their sample?
Many thanks to all who participated! 
SDMB roolz…
Good thing you didn’t say “it had the ‘Soul Sacrifice’ drum break in the middle”, or you would still be combing thru the extensive, redundant catalog of Santana songs.
Christ! He managed to work it into “She’s not there”! :rolleyes:
So after all that, it was the really insanely famous song? 
Glad we got it resolved, anyway, this was bothering me.
That’s what I said back in Post #6.
Thank you! Thank You! No, really! Hold your applause.
Santana wrote a song called “Ack”? What was it, an ode to Bill the Cat? :dubious:
Perhaps not insanely famous enough. I really don’t listen to music radio, and the last time I had heard it was in a hair-cutting joint over a year ago.
Maybe I need to get out more…