Moonflower (album)

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Moonflower
MoonflowerAlbum.jpg
Studio album / Live album by
Santana
ReleasedOctober 1977
RecordedDecember 1976 (live tracks / Europe)
1977 (studio tracks / San Francisco)
Genre
Length86:50
Label Columbia
Producer Carlos Santana, Tom Coster
Santana chronology
Festival
(1977)		Moonflower
(1977)		 Inner Secrets
(1978)
Singles from Moonflower
  1. "She's Not There"
    Released: October 1977
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Christgau's Record Guide B+ [2]
Rolling Stone (not rated) [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Moonflower is a double album released in 1977 by Santana. The recording features both studio and live tracks, which are interspersed with one another throughout the album. It is perhaps the group's most popular live album, because the 1974 album Lotus did not receive a U.S. domestic release until 1991. It displays a mix between the fusion of Latin and blues rock styles of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the much more experimental and spiritual jazz fusion sound that characterized the band's mid-1970s work. The live material was recorded during the supporting tour for the Amigos album.

Contents

A cover version of the Zombies' mid-1960s hit song "She's Not There" was released as a single and peaked at #27. The song was the first Santana recording to hit the Top 40 of the Billboard charts since "No One to Depend On" reached #36 in 1972. The album reached #10 on the Billboard charts and was eventually certified platinum, neither of which occurred again until the star-studded Supernatural in 1999.

Track listing

All tracks written and composed by Tom Coster and Carlos Santana, except where noted;

Side one

  1. "Dawn/Go Within" – 2:44 (Studio)
  2. "Carnaval" – 2:17 (Live)
  3. "Let the Children Play" (Leon Patillo, Santana) – 2:37 (Live)
  4. "Jugando" (José "Chepito" Areas, Santana) – 2:09 (Live)
  5. "I'll Be Waiting" (Santana) – 5:20 (Studio; also issued on single)
  6. "Zulu" – 3:25 (Studio)

Side two

  1. "Bahia" – 1:37 (Studio)
  2. "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen" (Peter Green/Gábor Szabó) – 6:32 (Live)
  3. "Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)" (Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Coster, David Rubinson) – 7:45 (Live)
  4. "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" – 6:07 (Live)

Side three

  1. "She's Not There" (Rod Argent) – 4:09 (Studio; also issued on single)
  2. "Flor d'Luna (Moonflower)" (Coster) – 5:01 (Studio)
  3. "Soul Sacrifice/Head, Hands & Feet" (Santana, Gregg Rolie, David Brown, Marcus Malone/Graham Lear) – 14:01 (Live)

Side four

  1. "El Morocco" – 5:05 (Studio)
  2. "Transcendance" (Santana) – 5:13 (Studio)
  3. "Savor/Toussaint L'Overture" (Santana, Rolie, Brown, Michael Carabello, Michael Shrieve, Areas) – 12:56 (Live)

Bonus tracks on 2003 reissue

  1. "Black Magic Woman" (Single edit) (Green) – 2:37 (Live)
  2. "I'll Be Waiting" (Single edit) (Santana) – 3:12 (Studio)
  3. "She's Not There" (Single edit) (Argent) – 3:19 (Studio)

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1977-1978)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [5] 7
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [6] 10
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [7] 8
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [8] 2
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts) [9] 19
French Albums (SNEP) [10] 6
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [11] 16
Italian Albums ( Musica e Dischi ) [12] 3
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [13] 14
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [14] 12
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [15] 16
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [16] 22
UK Albums (OCC) [17] 7
US Billboard 200 [18] 10

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [19] Gold50,000^
France (SNEP) [20] Platinum300,000*
Netherlands (NVPI) [21] Platinum100,000^
Germany (BVMI) [22] Gold250,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [23] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [24] 2× Platinum2,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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