Clue for tomorrow's video. Another murder story that you may have not heard. This southern band's manager's wife vanished from a grocery store parking lot and was determined to be murdered after the suspect was found weeks later.
This song was absolutely everywhere when it dropped. I got a lot of respect for Santana due to his talent and longevity in the business. The backstory to Smooth is an interesting one. Thanks for sharing.
Love him or hate him in 1999 he brought electric guitar solos back in style. All the 80's heavy metal bands started touring and recording again. He literally brought guitar solos back in pop music.
I remember when this song came out. I was a huge fan of Matchbox 20 . I was like; hmmm it sounds latin...but wow thats the Matchbox 20 singer ,wait a minute that sounds like Santana ...no fkn way. Ever since this song plays on radio and I hear that drums and congas fill in to break into the intro ...uffff...you know its on.
Man if you think about it, 98-99 was the last great time in music. That was before the big technology boom when everybody was listening and still buying records. I remember when that album came out. It was fantastic. I would sit down with my guitar and try to play those Santana licks.
I love this song Smooth. Carlos Santana has always been one of my favorites. I thought it was awesome that Rob Thomas put together with Santana. also love matchbox 20 I listened to them when I was in Germany. All those crazy parties we had.
My mom was a very social single mom and when I was around 8 or 9, and since she didn't want to leave me alone at home so she used to take me to the clubs with her (this was in a Latin country where laws are very lax regarding kids) and I would try to sleep on the lounge area couches, but I always woke up whenever they played Santana because I loved his music. Fast forward 20 plus years to 1999 and was living in America and having the time of my life being single and having no cares in the world. I had rocked to Ricky Martin's album which came out just prior to this song, but when this song came out, it closed the circle for me! Here I was, the same age that my mom was when I first heard a song by Santana and having had a kid of my own (whom I did not take to the clubs with me) but it was such a rite of passage to party and dance to this song! I have beautiful memories that are all tied to this song of times gone by that will never return but that will forever live in my memory and in my heart. Thank you Rob and Carlos❣❣❣
Love that this song gave Carlos a revival. And the fact that Rob Thomas, who is seems like one of the nicest guys in music, was involved, makes it even better.
Very interesting story on this. I always enjoyed the hell out of this song, and it’s cool to know what it took to get it played… Thanks, and great job as always!
Smooth: "Second most successful song of all time," --Billboard #1 (for 12 weeks) on Billboard. Won 3 Grammys: Best Record Best Song Best Collaboration (Santana and Rob Thomas) Amazing! ✌️😎🎸
@@kayla7562the only album I cared about from that time is Regurgitation's "Tales of Necrophilia", everything else had already been done to death by 1999 and it's just now been reiterated for another quarter century.
If you haven't heard you should listen to Supernatural Album.. It is great. It has Maria Maria as well and I love the song Put your lights on with Everlast
Thanks for the informative video! I remember when the song came out, and first heard it. I was totally blown away! I was already a fan of MB20, and Santana. It was good seeing Carlos finally getting some post Black Magic Woman recognition. Was a good time to be a music fan. Way back when music was... actually music. Reading some of the comments... Maybe I'm on an island, but I loved the song. Very sexy groove. The horns were on point. Lyrics you could visualize. It all fit together very smooth (excuse the pun). To each their own I guess.
Killer vid!! Your work has always been great and just keeps getting better and better, your story telling and research reporting are awesome keep rockin 🤘🏼🤘🏼
I had no clue who Rob Thomas was when this came out and even now I couldn't have picked him out of a line-up. He was just a guy doing a decent guest vocal on a Santana song as far as I knew - I didn't know he wrote the lyrics! So yeah, I was that 'older demographic' - at the tender age of 26 when it came out :-)
I'VE NEVER HEARD OF ROB THOMAS BEFORE & FIRST HEARD OF SANTANA WHEN I SAW THEM @ WOODSTOCK.....ABSOLUTELY LOVE ANYTHING SANTANA DOES....I LOVE LISTENINGTO THIS SONG.... FABULOUS SONG
This tune is how I discovered that Carlos doesn't sing lead on any of his songs. Somehow I made it through the '70s without knowing much more about Santana other than Neil Schon played in his band when he was like 15 years old
I always knew - everything deserving do deserve through hard work - easily accepted that the song had a tricky way to it's well-deserved worldwide auditoria
Yeah this was a staple on radio. I’m not sure why radio station was so hesitant about giving Smooth a chance. Latin flavor aside it’s still a rock song and Santana made his way in an era when labels based on race weren’t attached. No one cared about that, Santana is a gifted performer with great music and a rockstar. So didn’t surprise me that the song took off with a new generation
This song didn't get much airplay on rock radio. It got played on pop radio mostly. Put Your Lights On crossed over to rock radio because Everlast had grabbed their attention with Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. Ends and What It's Like gave an audience that had previously ignored rap and hip hop a wake up call. Smooth was just another pop song.
Same!!!!!!!! That was the decade of good electronics (Eurodance, electronic hip-hop, techno-merengue), grunge and alternative rock, pop-latin music explosion and american pop waterfalls!!!!!!!!!!!! And that year was great year!
to me smooth was the first real rock song i had heard in a very long time, i still listen to this song all the time, its an incredible peace of music to me
Ahhhhhh, Santana. I was 10 when my brother had bought Santana Abraxas in 1970. I've been hooked on anything they produce since. I loved Rob Thomas on vocals, it was perfection.
Clive Davis is a genius. It's pronounced AIR-is-tah. He signed Barry Manilow in the '70s, who had so many platinum records in the '70s. Thanks for the history, man. I just found you and subscribed. LOVE this song, it's one of the best of the '90s!
It was a great song after I heard it the first couple of times. But then they played it nonstop for five years and ran it into the ground. I can’t stand it now and will change the station if it comes on.
Ok darlin, I loved the entire story, but the main thing I gleaned from this is that I've been pronouncing Arista incorrectly for 57 years - as of today, March 3rd - my birthday. I got the gift of knowledge! LOL I love your channel, so keep up the excellent work, my friend!
Ive still got this on cd, not only is it how i discovered Rob and Matchbox 20, its one of very few songs that both myself and my mother really like, im a rock and heavy metal etc fan, she was a Mod in the uk in the 60s so rock and rockers are not her favourite thing lol
This was something that Santana felt was different than what he had done before? What, a lame ass pop song was something he wanted to do? How sorry is it that his name is on the album but he had to be "convinced" to do the song. Oh well, if you're going to sell out, sell out for a whole lot of money I guess.
Santa is great saw him day on the green twice. The song is great very smooth. Carlos how could you not think it’s good . I thought you were better than that. Still love your music one of the greatest in my book.
Supernatural was a great album. Though smooth is a great track, my favorite was "Put your lights on" featuring Everlast. For me, Smooth was not as good as that track.
I didn't think the song was good. But you know those melodies that you can't get out of your head sometimes? That's what this monstrosity became to me, lol. Might as well join them!
On the one hand, I was happy that Carlos got some mainstream success long after his heyday in the 60's. On the other hand, Supernatural wasn't a very good album and Smooth annoys me.
Interesting to see all the backend work to get a hot song to pop. You dont see that so much these days as the streaming industry is tearing the record companies down. Thx for sharing!
Fffffffuuuuuuuuu this song. It may not have been awful the first hundred or so times I heard it, but talk about overplay...I've had the experience multiple times of hearing this come on one station only to turn the dial (look it up, zoomers) and hear it on another station immediately.
I't sinteresting how the last couple years of the 90s had this wave of comeback hits, Madonna wen massive with ray of light, Cher with Believe, Santana with smooth, And maybe not as far back as them Will Smith had mostly retired from music to be a movie star but then had one hell of a comeback album with "Big WIllie Style" that I believe went Diamond. I'm sure there were others I can;t think of right now
I remember hearing bits and pieces of this song, not knowing what it was. Then one morning I driving my daughter to high school and this song came on the radio. I instantly pulled off to the side of the road and told my daughter to be quiet. She was like we're going to be late but sat there and listened to the whole song with me. When it finished, she could see that I was like blown away and so was she. She looked at me and said, "Well, if I have to be a little late, this was a REALLY good reason." Not often a forty year old and a teenager agree about music but this song was THAT good. I bought the CD 2 days later and just about ALL of the songs on it are awesome!!
*it wasn't a No. 1 hit in the summer of '99, it was memorably a No. 1 hit at the end of the year, in fact it was the last No. 1 hit of the 20th century* you missed your lede
Clue for tomorrow's video. Another murder story that you may have not heard. This southern band's manager's wife vanished from a grocery store parking lot and was determined to be murdered after the suspect was found weeks later.
AIR-i-sta.....AIR-i-sta
This song was absolutely everywhere when it dropped. I got a lot of respect for Santana due to his talent and longevity in the business. The backstory to Smooth is an interesting one. Thanks for sharing.
Yes it was. You ain't kidding. The lyrics are so catchy I think anybody that's ever heard it can sing it.
Love him or hate him in 1999 he brought electric guitar solos back in style. All the 80's heavy metal bands started touring and recording again. He literally brought guitar solos back in pop music.
This song was SUPER popular at the time. I loved it too but I also found it so weird the pairing of them and just how popular it was out of nowhere.
Love Rob Thomas. Matchbox Twenty is amazing still today.
I remember when this song came out. I was a huge fan of Matchbox 20 . I was like; hmmm it sounds latin...but wow thats the Matchbox 20 singer ,wait a minute that sounds like Santana ...no fkn way. Ever since this song plays on radio and I hear that drums and congas fill in to break into the intro ...uffff...you know its on.
Man, I still remember when this song was eeeeeeverywhere.
Man if you think about it, 98-99 was the last great time in music. That was before the big technology boom when everybody was listening and still buying records. I remember when that album came out. It was fantastic. I would sit down with my guitar and try to play those Santana licks.
When Rob starts sharing stories and talking about music 'you know something's going on'. lol
I love this song Smooth. Carlos Santana has always been one of my favorites. I thought it was awesome that Rob Thomas put together with Santana. also love matchbox 20 I listened to them when I was in Germany. All those crazy parties we had.
My mom was a very social single mom and when I was around 8 or 9, and since she didn't want to leave me alone at home so she used to take me to the clubs with her (this was in a Latin country where laws are very lax regarding kids) and I would try to sleep on the lounge area couches, but I always woke up whenever they played Santana because I loved his music. Fast forward 20 plus years to 1999 and was living in America and having the time of my life being single and having no cares in the world. I had rocked to Ricky Martin's album which came out just prior to this song, but when this song came out, it closed the circle for me! Here I was, the same age that my mom was when I first heard a song by Santana and having had a kid of my own (whom I did not take to the clubs with me) but it was such a rite of passage to party and dance to this song! I have beautiful memories that are all tied to this song of times gone by that will never return but that will forever live in my memory and in my heart. Thank you Rob and Carlos❣❣❣
That's a beautiful story...thanks for sharing
Brilliant song, even more awesome album. Still one of my favorite. I love Santana's music.
Glad it came out it’s one of the best songs EVER!😊
Love this song, the instrumentals and the vocals!!! Would have been very sad if it was never recorded!!!
Love that this song gave Carlos a revival. And the fact that Rob Thomas, who is seems like one of the nicest guys in music, was involved, makes it even better.
Don't forget about the game of lovem great song.
I was not expecting what you looked like based off your voice for all these months I’ve been watching you.
Why does it matter?... I'm just joking, I hate when people do that.
I love finding out what a great RUclipsr looks like personally
IKR?
@@colletti914as they used to say, you got a face for radio😎🚬
He speaks American, that’s all that matters
Supernatural was just loaded with great tunes.
Very interesting story on this. I always enjoyed the hell out of this song, and it’s cool to know what it took to get it played… Thanks, and great job as always!
Smooth: "Second most successful song of all time," --Billboard
#1 (for 12 weeks) on Billboard.
Won 3 Grammys:
Best Record
Best Song
Best Collaboration (Santana and Rob Thomas) Amazing!
✌️😎🎸
I still turn up the radio when smooth comes on
You have to. Anyone who was old enough to listen to music back then still turns it up when it comes on to this day, I’m sure.
I dance to it. And I’m 71 😊
@@kayla7562the only album I cared about from that time is Regurgitation's "Tales of Necrophilia", everything else had already been done to death by 1999 and it's just now been reiterated for another quarter century.
I turn up my radio when this song comes on and want to dance. Santana is the best and Rob's vocals are great!
Hell yeah brother!
If you haven't heard you should listen to Supernatural Album.. It is great. It has Maria Maria as well and I love the song Put your lights on with Everlast
Thanks for the informative video!
I remember when the song came out, and first heard it. I was totally blown away! I was already a fan of MB20, and Santana. It was good seeing Carlos finally getting some post Black Magic Woman recognition. Was a good time to be a music fan. Way back when music was... actually music.
Reading some of the comments... Maybe I'm on an island, but I loved the song. Very sexy groove. The horns were on point. Lyrics you could visualize. It all fit together very smooth (excuse the pun). To each their own I guess.
Killer vid!! Your work has always been great and just keeps getting better and better, your story telling and research reporting are awesome keep rockin 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Thanks much appreciated
I still love this song to this day
I had no clue who Rob Thomas was when this came out and even now I couldn't have picked him out of a line-up. He was just a guy doing a decent guest vocal on a Santana song as far as I knew - I didn't know he wrote the lyrics!
So yeah, I was that 'older demographic' - at the tender age of 26 when it came out :-)
I'VE NEVER HEARD OF ROB THOMAS BEFORE & FIRST HEARD OF SANTANA WHEN I SAW THEM @ WOODSTOCK.....ABSOLUTELY LOVE ANYTHING SANTANA DOES....I LOVE LISTENINGTO THIS SONG....
FABULOUS SONG
Me too!!!
I really wish good music always was the forefront, but unfortunately there is so much that stops that and so much amazing music is buried
Summer of 99’ was banger
I remember it will.
Last good year….
Great song..great vocals amazing guitar
This tune is how I discovered that Carlos doesn't sing lead on any of his songs. Somehow I made it through the '70s without knowing much more about Santana other than Neil Schon played in his band when he was like 15 years old
Every shawty young and old likes this song.
Arguably the “catchiest” song ever…love all the hipsters in the comments trashing it too😂😂😂…grow TF up and stop gatekeeping
Smooth would be in my top-5 all time singles. Also My Sharona.
One of those few songs that was overplayed , but wasn't annoying 😊
You speak for yourself there... this song was the bane of any fast food worker.
I love the song "Smooth" and the whole album.
Ditto. That was a great album.
@@rticle15 🙂👋🤘🤙👍🏽
I always knew - everything deserving do deserve through hard work - easily accepted that the song had a tricky way to it's well-deserved worldwide auditoria
That album flew under my radar until Put Your Lights On caught my attention. I always thought of Smooth as the b side.
I do hope Rob Thomas has found someone else to style his hair in the two decades since this song was released
He’s 40ish and he has 😂
Smooth is all the things wrong with popular radio then and now. Is it only me but I can't stand how Carlos just over plays and in a really boring way?
Yeah this was a staple on radio. I’m not sure why radio station was so hesitant about giving Smooth a chance. Latin flavor aside it’s still a rock song and Santana made his way in an era when labels based on race weren’t attached. No one cared about that, Santana is a gifted performer with great music and a rockstar. So didn’t surprise me that the song took off with a new generation
This song didn't get much airplay on rock radio. It got played on pop radio mostly. Put Your Lights On crossed over to rock radio because Everlast had grabbed their attention with Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. Ends and What It's Like gave an audience that had previously ignored rap and hip hop a wake up call. Smooth was just another pop song.
Thanks for all the interesting videos , reminds me of VH1 behind the music shorts gives me late 90s vibes love it thanks bro for the entertainment
Oh man, I was 12 in 1999, and it was EVERYWHERE
Same!!!!!!!! That was the decade of good electronics (Eurodance, electronic hip-hop, techno-merengue), grunge and alternative rock, pop-latin music explosion and american pop waterfalls!!!!!!!!!!!! And that year was great year!
This is the first time I heard one of your videos. If you apologized for being sick, don't, you were great.
to me smooth was the first real rock song i had heard in a very long time, i still listen to this song all the time, its an incredible peace of music to me
Ahhhhhh, Santana. I was 10 when my brother had bought Santana Abraxas in 1970. I've been hooked on anything they produce since. I loved Rob Thomas on vocals, it was perfection.
Abraxas fucking rocks dude
@@georgeemery3295 It does! Always makes me feel good and makes me want to move. You can't help yourself.
Clive Davis is a genius. It's pronounced AIR-is-tah. He signed Barry Manilow in the '70s, who had so many platinum records in the '70s. Thanks for the history, man. I just found you and subscribed. LOVE this song, it's one of the best of the '90s!
Lost my memory. Now I realize how important music is. Thank you it's bigger than words.
It was a great song after I heard it the first couple of times. But then they played it nonstop for five years and ran it into the ground. I can’t stand it now and will change the station if it comes on.
Ditto
Ok darlin, I loved the entire story, but the main thing I gleaned from this is that I've been pronouncing Arista incorrectly for 57 years - as of today, March 3rd - my birthday. I got the gift of knowledge! LOL
I love your channel, so keep up the excellent work, my friend!
Someone pointed out it wasn’t pronounced the way I did it. But glad you enjoyed the story
Very interesting. Thanks for the info. Love Santana and Thomas
I love this song ❤ Greetings from Brazil ! 👋🇧🇷
Unlikely? It's a freakkin' GEM!
Hope you feel better. I liked the slightly slower pace to it, and good to see you !
"Something's goin on" 👀🎶
When someone does a video about the story of your song, you know something is going on
"Oy! Como va!" = Jewish remix of Oye Como Va
😅
I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone had brought this up. 😂
Ive still got this on cd, not only is it how i discovered Rob and Matchbox 20, its one of very few songs that both myself and my mother really like, im a rock and heavy metal etc fan, she was a Mod in the uk in the 60s so rock and rockers are not her favourite thing lol
That was a good album...isssss a good album...wasnt a classic yet to get air time...one if the greatest songs ever
Carlos Stantana is still a wonderful musician. That will go away.
SMOOTH IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS.
ROB THOMAS IS ALSO ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS.
That WILL NEVER GO AWAY. SORRY FOR MY ERRORS.
This was something that Santana felt was different than what he had done before? What, a lame ass pop song was something he wanted to do? How sorry is it that his name is on the album but he had to be "convinced" to do the song. Oh well, if you're going to sell out, sell out for a whole lot of money I guess.
Carlos Santana destroyed Grunch music.
Mad season is so good I'm so glad it came out
Santa is great saw him day on the green twice. The song is great very smooth. Carlos how could you not think it’s good . I thought you were better than that.
Still love your music one of the greatest in my book.
Supernatural was a great album. Though smooth is a great track, my favorite was "Put your lights on" featuring Everlast. For me, Smooth was not as good as that track.
I didn't think the song was good. But you know those melodies that you can't get out of your head sometimes? That's what this monstrosity became to me, lol. Might as well join them!
It’s not good it’s GREAT 😊
Good documentary on how horrible songs performed by great artists get written
Ahh yes, the background track for fights at Applebees
Awesome 👍 well done 👊
_Labels: "We can't put this out! He will we make any money from it? No one is gonna like this."_
*30 million albums later...*
still sing along with the song whenever I hear it
On the one hand, I was happy that Carlos got some mainstream success long after his heyday in the 60's.
On the other hand, Supernatural wasn't a very good album and Smooth annoys me.
Interesting to see all the backend work to get a hot song to pop. You dont see that so much these days as the streaming industry is tearing the record companies down. Thx for sharing!
Good to put a face to the voice at last, dude. 👍🏻
Smooth
Love this song and the performers !
Fascinating. Amazing how petty the industry can be. Who knows how many artists they've stood in the way of.
Now I know Rob Thomas's favorite saying is "something is happening here."
“When there are RUclips comments about how there’s something going on, that’s how you know something’s going on,” Thomas said.
Something is happening.
@@BurningEmerald yep, and more. He said it 3x or so in the video lol
Fffffffuuuuuuuuu this song. It may not have been awful the first hundred or so times I heard it, but talk about overplay...I've had the experience multiple times of hearing this come on one station only to turn the dial (look it up, zoomers) and hear it on another station immediately.
"it was like the gift that kept on giving."
Oh, you mean like the clemidia you gave all those kids over time?
Allegedly, allegedly.
I't sinteresting how the last couple years of the 90s had this wave of comeback hits, Madonna wen massive with ray of light, Cher with Believe, Santana with smooth, And maybe not as far back as them Will Smith had mostly retired from music to be a movie star but then had one hell of a comeback album with "Big WIllie Style" that I believe went Diamond. I'm sure there were others I can;t think of right now
I remember hearing bits and pieces of this song, not knowing what it was. Then one morning I driving my daughter to high school and this song came on the radio. I instantly pulled off to the side of the road and told my daughter to be quiet. She was like we're going to be late but sat there and listened to the whole song with me. When it finished, she could see that I was like blown away and so was she. She looked at me and said, "Well, if I have to be a little late, this was a REALLY good reason." Not often a forty year old and a teenager agree about music but this song was THAT good. I bought the CD 2 days later and just about ALL of the songs on it are awesome!!
Wow, one of my favorite songs (I’m 72 years young) and now love knowing the back story to it from your video. Thank you so much!😊
Man it’s a hot wonnn
Super Natural is one of the best LP's ever.
This song is a@@
The song was a juggernaut.
*it wasn't a No. 1 hit in the summer of '99, it was memorably a No. 1 hit at the end of the year, in fact it was the last No. 1 hit of the 20th century* you missed your lede
This song was EVERYWHERE
Oh. Have you done a video on cher-believe and autotune?
I tried, really hard, to like this song. Carlos Santana is a legend, I guess it's not my cup of tea.
I felt the same way back when it came out, but now I love it and will probably listen to it on purpose later today now.
Wow, The Like button is gone. What. gives?
In memoriam Raul Rekow, his congas made this song pop out
Who’s that guy dancing like Elaine Benes
"One of the biggest songs in history"? It is a good song but really??
"Oh-yay", not oi...
Oy vay.
Exactly
I just hate the eq they apply to his vocals.
Smooth is good, a little overplayed at the time but happy for Carlos. I do like Winning & Hold On ⭐️
Winning is so unique for a santana song. It's great
Great backstory, thanks!
This played constantly on the tv's in the blockbuster where i worked in 2000.
Omg....ss Diddy and Clive ???