Santana (1971 album) explained

Santana
Type:Album
Artist:Santana
Cover:Santana3.jpg
Released:September 24, 1971[1]
Recorded:January – July 4, 1971
Studio:Columbia Studios, San Francisco
Length:41:27
Label:Columbia
Legacy (2006 edition)
Producer:Santana
Prev Title:Abraxas
Prev Year:1970
Next Title:Caravanserai
Next Year:1972

Santana is the third studio album by the American rock band Santana. The band's second self-titled album, it is often referred to as III or Santana III to distinguish it from the band's 1969 debut album. The album was also known as Man with an Outstretched Hand, after its album cover image. It was the third and last album by the Woodstock-era lineup, until their reunion on Santana IV in 2016. It was also considered by many to be the band's peak commercially and musically, as subsequent releases aimed towards more experimental jazz fusion and Latin music. The album also marked the addition of 16-year-old guitarist Neal Schon to the group.

Release and reception

The original album was recorded at Columbia Studios, San Francisco, and released in both stereo and quadraphonic.

The album featured two singles that charted in the United States. "Everybody's Everything" peaked at No. 12 in October 1971,[2] while "No One to Depend On", an uncredited adaptation of Willie Bobo's boogaloo standard "Spanish Grease", received significant airplay on FM radio and peaked at No. 36 in March 1972. Santana III was also the last Santana album to hit #1 on the charts until Supernatural in 1999. The 2005 edition of Guinness World Records stated that was the longest gap between #1 albums ever occurring (a record which is now held by Paul McCartney since his seventeenth solo studio album, Egypt Station, topped the Billboard 200 chart on 2018, his first since his 1982's Tug of War). The original album was re-released in 1998 with live versions of "Batuka", "Jungle Strut" and a previously unreleased song, "Gumbo", recorded at Fillmore West in 1971 which features lead guitar solos by both Santana and Schon.

As was done with the band's debut album, released two years earlier, in 2006 Sony released the "Legacy Edition" of the album, featuring the original album in re-mastered sound, and bonus material:

The original Quadraphonic mix of the album was remastered and released on multichannel SACD by Sony Japan in 2021.

Track listing

2006 Legacy Edition

Singles

Personnel

Additional personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1971-1972)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[6] 4
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[7] 2
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[8] 4

Year-end charts

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Santana albums.
  2. Web site: Santana - Santana III (1971) | Awards | AllMusic . AllMusic.com . November 26, 2013.
  3. Web site: Grateful Dead Family Discography: Fillmore : The Last Days . DeadDisc.com . January 7, 2012.
  4. Web site: RPM Top 100 Singles - December 4, 1971.
  5. Web site: RPM Top 100 Singles - April 8, 1972.
  6. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6.
  7. Book: Pennanen, Timo. Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972. 1st. Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. Helsinki. 2006. 978-951-1-21053-5. fi.
  8. Book: Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Oricon Entertainment. Roppongi, Tokyo. 2006. 4-87131-077-9. ja.
  9. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts. 1972. GfK Entertainment Charts. de. April 2, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20150509214918/https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-1972. May 9, 2015.