So, last weekend was the 20th anniversary of this smooth tune...

[Sum Buddy Ells]

How the Santana and Rob Thomas Song 'Smooth' Became as Essential as Sex

The song turns 20 on June 29, 2019. The people who made it happen explain how the song came to life, and why, according to Santana, it "belongs with something that people need every day."

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Twenty years after its release, "Smooth" enjoys the gilded status of America’s second-most popular song of all time, right behind Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” and right above Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife,” according to Billboard. Its potency derives largely from the fact that it is impossible to not react to—whether with excitement, exasperation, derision, or muddled, semi-ironic affection. It was meme bait before memes even existed: the rare cultural product whose very existence morphed into a sort of provocation.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainme...s-santana-rob-thomas-smooth-20th-anniversary/

 

[Turbo-87]

Santana is so awesome. I like all of the collaboration songs he has in his portfolio, especially The Game of Love with Michelle Branch.

 

[Tenez!]

Is Mack the Knife that famous in US?
It's originally a German song by Kurt Weill, and pretty niche in Europe outside of Germany.
Very catchy though.

 

[Bartelby]

Mack the Knife has original words by the Marxist Bertolt Brecht and music by Kurt Weil, to be exact, so America's third favourite song is a Marxist classic.

 

[Vcore89]

This one from 2002.

 

[stringertom]

Is Mack the Knife that famous in US?
It's originally a German song by Kurt Weill, and pretty niche in Europe outside of Germany.
Very catchy though.

It was a big hit here in the 60’s for Bobby Darin.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Mack the Knife has original words by the Marxist Bertolt Brecht and music by Kurt Weil, to be exact, so America's third favourite song is a Marxist classic.

Sung by Lotte Lenya

 

[Tennis_Hands]

It was a big hit here in the 60’s for Bobby Darin.

The Robbie Williams version is really good, and, of course, the one of the inimitable Louis Armstrong.

 

[EloQuent]

Mack the Knife has original words by the Marxist Bertolt Brecht and music by Kurt Weil, to be exact, so America's third favourite song is a Marxist classic.

Capitalism baby

 

[MichaelNadal]

One of my fav songs ever

 

[stringertom]

Here’s Carlos 50 years ago at a little get together in upstate NY:

This was purely instrumental but the organist Gregg Rolie was lead vocalist on their first three albums and was the original voice for Journey before Steve Perry.