Give Me Your Heart Baby or Else Forget About It

1999 single by Santana

1999 single by Santana featuring Rob Thomas

"Smoothen"
Single by Santana featuring Rob Thomas
from the album Supernatural
B-side	"El farol"
Released	June 29, 1999 (1999-06-29)
Recorded	1998–1999
Studio	Fantasy (Berkeley, California)
Genre	Latin stone[1] alternative rock[2]
Length	4:55 (album version) 3:55 (radio edit)
Label	Arista BMG
Composer(s)	Itaal Shur Rob Thomas
Lyricist(s)	Rob Thomas
Producer(s)	Matt Serletic
Santana singles chronology
"Say It Once more" (1985) "Smooth" (1999) "Maria Maria" (1999)
Rob Thomas singles chronology
"Smoothen" (1999) "A New York Christmas" (2003)
Music video
"Smooth" on YouTube

"Smooth" is a collaboration between Latin rock band Santana and Matchbox Twenty singer Rob Thomas. The song was written by Itaal Shur and Thomas, produced by Matt Serletic, and sung by Thomas.^[ane] In the U.s., it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks; information technology was the last number-one hit of the 1990s and the showtime number-one hit of the 2000s. "Smooth" is the only song to announced on two decade-end Billboard charts. "Smooth" is ranked as the 3rd-nearly-successful song ever on Billboard's Greatest of All Fourth dimension Hot 100 Songs listing. It won three Grammy Awards: Record of the Yr, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. The song reached number one in Canada and the top 10 in Australia, Republic of austria, Ireland and the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.

Concept and background [edit]

"Polish" was originally conceived by Itaal Shur as a song chosen "Room 17". The lyrics were stripped off and the track was given to Rob Thomas, who re-wrote the lyrics and melody and re-titled it "Smooth", then recorded the song as a demo to play for Santana. After hearing the song, Santana decided to have Thomas record the last version.^{[i] [3]} Matt Serletic (who produced Matchbox Twenty'southward debut album Yourself or Someone Similar You lot) produced the song, and it was released from Santana's album Supernatural. Thomas originally had George Michael in mind to sing the song.^[4]

Chart functioning [edit]

By June 1, "Smoothen" was leaked and played by some radio stations before its official release.^[v] The single became a chart-topping hit in 1999, spending 12 consecutive weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 kickoff with the week of October 23, 1999. It was the first nautical chart-topping vocal in Carlos Santana'southward long-running career, rising higher than Santana'due south previous biggest hit, "Black Magic Woman", which peaked at number 4 in 1971. "Smooth" stayed in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 30 weeks and the top 100 for 58 weeks.^[6]

In the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, "Smooth" first charted at number 75 on the United kingdom Singles Chart in Oct 1999. After a full release on March 20, 2000,^[7] it peaked at number iii, spending 8 weeks in the top xl. The vocal also peaked at number three in Ireland in March 2000, spending ten weeks on the Irish Singles Chart. It remains Santana's highest-charting unmarried in both the UK and Ireland. The song also peaked at number one in Canada for a calendar week, number four in Australia, and number nine in Austria. It reached the top forty in an boosted seven countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, kingdom of the netherlands, New Zealand, and Switzerland.

Legacy [edit]

On Billboard magazine's rankings of the top songs of the offset fifty years of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, "Smooth" was ranked equally the number-two song overall^[8] and the number-one stone song in the history of the chart.^[9]

In the 21st century, particularly during the summer of 2016, the song became the subject of several net memes.^[10] Writing for MTV.com, Sasha Geffen compared the state of affairs to similar resurgences of "All Star" by Blast Mouth and "1 Week" past the Barenaked Ladies, going on to attribute the song'south popularity to "the merits of its vocal absurdity." They wrote, "There's something ridiculous about how eagerly Rob Thomas lays his earnest alt-rock croon over Santana's guitar, sweating out lines about how his 'Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa' is 'but like the ocean under the moon' without a hint of self-consciousness or irony".^[2] In 2017, Tanya Sichynsky of The Washington Post similarly opined that, "The opening lyric 'Man, information technology'due south a hot one,'... is a dial line that requires no set-upward."^[11]

Track listings [edit]

US CD and cassette single [12] [13] "Smooth" – 3:55 "El farol" – 4:59 UK 1999 CD single [14] "Smooth" – 3:55 "Smooth" (instrumental) – four:55 "El farol" – 4:59 UK 2000 CD and cassette single [xv] [16] "Shine" (radio edit) – 3:55 "Polish" (dance radio mix) – 4:55 "Shine" (instrumental) – 4:55

European CD single [17] "Shine" (radio edit) – 3:55 "Smooth" (anthology version) – iv:55 Australian CD single [eighteen] "Smoothen" (radio edit) – 3:55 "Shine" (anthology version) – 4:55 "Smooth" (instrumental) – 4:55

Credits and personnel [edit]

Credits are taken from the Supernatural album booklet.^[nineteen]

Studios

• Recorded at Fantasy Studios (Berkeley, California)
• Mixed at the Record Plant (New York City)
• Mastered at A&M Mastering Studios (Los Angeles, California)

Personnel

Itaal Shur – music, lyrics Rob Thomas – lyrics, lead vocals Carlos Santana – atomic number 82 guitar Benny Rietveld – bass Chester Thompson – keyboards Rodney Holmes – drums Raul Rekow – congas Karl Perazzo – percussion Jeff Cressman – trombone

José Abel Figueroa – trombone Javier Melendez – trumpet William Ortiz – trumpet Matt Serletic – product David Thoener – recording, mixing Steve Fontano – recording assistant Andy Haller – mixing assistant Marker Dobson – programming and digital editing Stephen Marcussen – mastering

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

Comprehend versions [edit]

• A comprehend version of the song is included in the Nintendo Wii version of Samba de Amigo. Mail-hardcore group Escape the Fate also recorded a embrace version of the song for the compilation album Punk Goes Pop 2, released on March ten, 2009. Junior Lima from Brazilian pop duo Sandy & Junior sung a cover version of the vocal for the duo's alive album/DVD Every bit Quatro Estações - O Bear witness, released in 2000.
• The song was featured on two tracks, "Cook Anybody" and "Polish Menses", from Neil Cicierega's 2014 brew-up album Mouth Sounds, and on two tracks, "Smooth" and "Shit", from the 2017 follow-upwards album Mouth Moods.
• An acoustic version of the vocal was released by indie-folk artist Kimberly June on album Covers from Some other, recorded at Round Hill Studios in Nashville in 2021.
• The song "Albi Ekhatark (قلبي اختارك)" by Egyptian singer Amr Diab is loosely based on "Smooth".^[78]

In popular culture [edit]

• In Feb 2013, The Onion published a satirical video joking that "Smooth" had swept the Grammy Awards for thirteen years in a row.^[79]
• Singer Miley Cyrus - every bit her television receiver alter ego Hannah Montana - made reference to "Smooth" and Carlos Santana in her song "Gonna Go This."^[eighty]
• Funny or Die released a police drama parody trailer with Rob Thomas that recited the song's lyrics.^[81]
• In 2019, comedian JP Leonard released a scrap inspired by the song which puts Rob Thomas in various jobs. The track, Man, "It'due south a Hot One" appeared on the comedy album NO Show One-act: A Louisiana Anthology Recording. A video of the functioning is also available here. ^[82]
• In 2021, Santana would team up once once again with Rob Thomas for a sequel of sorts called Move, off their latest album Blessings and Miracles. The song likewise features American Authors, and similar Supernatural, the album is also packed with guests, something that has characterized most Santana albums since 1999.

See also [edit]

• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1999
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-i singles of 2000
• List of RPM number-one singles of 1999
• List of RPM Stone/Alternative number-1 singles (Canada)

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External links [edit]

• "Shine" on AllMusic

Give Me Your Heart Baby or Else Forget About It

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_%28Santana_song%29