Jorge Santana - 1978 - Jorge Santana

Jorge Santana

1978 

Jorge Santana

01. Sandy 4:47

02. Tonight You're Mine 4:57

03. Darling I Love You 4:23

04. We Were There 4:01

05. Love You, Love You 4:22

06. Love The Way 7:23

07. Seychells 5:31

08. Nobody's Perfect 4:33

Backing Vocals – Kathy Ingraham

Bass – Carlos Roberto

Congas, Bongos, Timbales – Edward "Yogi" Newman

Drums – Jerry Marshall

Guitar, Lead Vocals, Vocals – Richard Bean

Keyboards – Kincaid Miller

Lead Guitar, Vocals – George Santana

Reissued in 2003, featuring a new track listing, omitting "Seychells", but featuring two songs remixes.

Latin rock pioneer Jorge Santana’s musical journey began right after high school, when he joined the popular San Francisco nine-piece, horn-driven band, The Malibus. The Malibus added the 17-year-old guitarist and morphed into Malo by 1971. Their self-titled debut album was issued in 1972, yielding the Top Twenty hit “Sauvecito.”

Malo continued to evolve over the course of four albums for Warner Bros. with a changing cast of members, including keyboardist Richard Kermode (formerly of Janis Joplin’s Kozmic Blues Band), singer/founders Arcelio Garcia and Richard Bean, and three members of the band Naked Lunch, among others. After Malo’s fourth Warner Bros. album, Ascención, was released, Santana performed with the Fania All-Stars at Madison Square Garden, then appeared on their 1974 album Latin-Soul-Rock. After that he took a break.

In 1978, the first Jorge Santana solo album emerged as a self-titled affair with most of the songs co-written with Malo alum Richard Bean, who also handled lead vocal duties. The song “Love the Way” was the breakout single, and the album made it onto the Black Album charts