# Help me find the name of a Santana song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912 "2005-05-15T05:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/1 "2005-05-15T05:58:16Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/2 "2005-05-15T06:05:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/3 "2005-05-15T06:34:51Z")
What album? ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/4 "2005-05-15T06:45:44Z")
The Clarence Greenwood Recordings. Amazon has it over here: [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002IRXMI](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002IRXMI) You can listen to a sample, even. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/5 "2005-05-16T04:38:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/6 "2005-05-16T04:43:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/7 "2005-05-16T05:26:25Z")
Not on _Shaman_ or _Supernatural_. ---
**Author:** ![user\_v1.05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/5daacb/32.png) [@user\_v1.05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_v1.05)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/8 "2005-05-16T05:37:54Z")
Oye Como Va? [Commercial Description](http://www.whatsthatcalled.com/html/list.php?index_number=859) (Smooth would have been my first guess) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/9 "2005-05-16T06:01:24Z")
Not on _The Best of … Vol. 1_ or _The Best of … Vol. 2_. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/10 "2005-05-17T04:12:11Z")
> [@user v1.05](#): > > Oye Como Va? > > (Smooth would have been my first guess) Nope. Like I said, it should be off of a fairly recent album. ---
**Author:** ![ZeroGyro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47774/32.png) [@ZeroGyro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZeroGyro)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/11 "2005-05-17T08:54:59Z")
> [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > 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](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00011RFCE/qid%3D1116320142/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-4822406-9349545)) is an album of “Remixes & Rarities” and was released in Dec. 2003. This should be it. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/12 "2005-05-18T05:34:03Z")
> [@ZeroGyro](#): > > The only albums of all-new music Santana has released in the last ten years are _Supernatural_ and _Shaman_. _Ceremony_ ([link](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00011RFCE/qid%3D1116320142/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-4822406-9349545)) 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. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/13 "2005-05-18T07:44:11Z")
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](http://www.Santana.com) for a chronological discography. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/14 "2005-05-19T04:50:27Z")
> [@DfrntBreign](#): > > 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](http://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](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000J7J4/qid=1116478053/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-3037326-3368756) 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…** ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/15 "2005-05-19T05:53:48Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/16 "2005-05-19T06:03:43Z")
So after all that, it was the really insanely famous song? 😉 Glad we got it resolved, anyway, this was bothering me. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/17 "2005-05-20T17:13:57Z")
That’s what I said back in Post #6. **Thank you! Thank You! No, really! Hold your applause.** ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/18 "2005-05-20T18:40:42Z")
> [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > Mucho thanks for the link, but, “Ack”, the song I was looking for is not there either. Santana wrote a song called “Ack”? What was it, an ode to Bill the Cat? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-a-santana-song/303912/19 "2005-05-20T18:55:52Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > So after all that, it was the really insanely famous song? 😉 Glad we got it resolved, anyway, this was bothering me. 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…