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Santana — Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)
Album: Amigos
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Released: 1976
Length: 8:13
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Dance sister dance
I love the way you move
I love to watch you
Dance sister dance
Feel the rhythm flow into your soul
Dance sister dance
Feel the rhythm flow
Feel the rhythm flow through you
Dance sister dance
I love to watch you move
I love the way you dance

Baila mi hermana
Baila para mi
Baila mi hermana
Baila para mi

I love to watch you move
I love the way you dance with me
Dance sister dance
I love the way you move
I love to watch you
Dance sister dance
Feel the rhythm flow into your soul
Dance sister dance

Mi hermana
Baila para mi
Baila mi hermana
Baila para mi
I love the way you move
I love the way you baila
Baila para mi

Baila para mi
Baila para mi hermana

Baila mi hermana
Baila para mi
Baila mi hermana
I love to watch you move
I love the way you dance with me

Dance with me (5x)
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 njswede wrote:


And even if it were his actual sister, all the song is saying is that he thinks she's a good dancer. Geez, people really get wound up over stupid things.



I Agree!! It is a slang term that usually does not refer to a biological sister. Check out how the term "sister" was used in old  Bogart & Cagney movies!!   
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 theanniewithin wrote:

I like Santana, but this song just goes on a bit tooooooooo long for my taste.  Let's get on to something completely different.



I agree.  More Santana. 
Posted 2 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 LowPhreak wrote:

Perhaps most people don't have weird thoughts like incest on their minds? Could also be referring to a female friend as "sister". People do that ya know.


And even if it were his actual sister, all the song is saying is that he thinks she's a good dancer. Geez, people really get wound up over stupid things.
Posted 2 years ago by njswede    [ Reply ]
Live version from Moonflower is incredible. Carlos' playing is amazing.
Posted 3 years ago by robspeds    [ Reply ]
The title of this should have been "Endless Noodle".
Posted 3 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
 mrtuba9 wrote:


You had me googling!!!
 
Ok you got me too!  Funny comment

Posted 3 years ago by bdwhitepm    [ Reply ]
Yes - still remember when Europa from this album hit the FM station in 1976.  Great Santana album, back in the day we used to listen to the whole album.
Posted 3 years ago by hd220    [ Reply ]
What a great song!  The samba and the rock blended into something so warm and satisfying.  
Posted 4 years ago by cely    [ Reply ]
 trailhead wrote:
The live version from Moonflower is so much better.
 
So much better - that is one of my all time favourite albums.  This gets 6, still a good song, but without the live "oompf".  It is thin...
Posted 4 years ago by Andrew_C    [ Reply ]
 LawDude wrote:
So cool that this guy plays baseball and also has this great band.
 

You had me googling!!!
Posted 5 years ago by mrtuba9    [ Reply ]
 LawDude wrote:
So cool that this guy plays baseball and also has this great band.

 
{#Jump}
Posted 7 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 yofitofu wrote:
Unfortunately this sounds disturbingly like something I'd hear in a disco on South Beach. Was really disappointed to see it was Santana.

 
Perhaps that is because it was cut in 1976, you know, 40 years ago, in the disco era, in South Beach or anywhere else. 
Posted 7 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
So cool that this guy plays baseball and also has this great band.
Posted 7 years ago by LawDude    [ Reply ]
Wonderful re-discovery. I thought I had every Santana album nailed in my collection, either on vinyl or CD and somehow totally spaced this one out, though as soon as I heard Dance Sister Dance, it all came back. RP has been great for hearing both new and old artists that I never knew existed, not to mention lost gems from some of my oldtime favorites. Mil gracias senores.
Posted 8 years ago by Kokoloco53    [ Reply ]
Man, follow this up with some Return to Forever and that'll make my afternoon!
Posted 8 years ago by chinaski    [ Reply ]
 tomcool wrote:

Yeah, I guess it is my fault.  I should have known that when Carlos says, "sister," he means "girlfriend."

 
Why so serious and offensive? ''Sister' can mean something like 'pal', 'buddy', 'friend', hell even girlfriend is ok and has a meaning with no sexual connotations and it is quite a popular one.
Posted 8 years ago by aspalathin    [ Reply ]
Wow, haven't heard this in ages. Love it!! Thanks Bill!  Need to dig through the Santana in my old vinyl collection soon...
Posted 8 years ago by RCinSoCal    [ Reply ]
Unfortunately this sounds disturbingly like something I'd hear in a disco on South Beach. Was really disappointed to see it was Santana.
Posted 8 years ago by yofitofu    [ Reply ]
 tomcool wrote:
I guess nobody else finds this song creepy.  Lyrically, I mean.

 
Perhaps most people don't have weird thoughts like incest on their minds? Could also be referring to a female friend as "sister". People do that ya know.
Posted 8 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
LOVE THIS ENDING!!!
Posted 8 years ago by molson    [ Reply ]
The live version from Moonflower is so much better.  That version would get a 10 from me. The studio version doesn't have the same pop.  I'll withhold a rating for now. 
Posted 8 years ago by trailhead    [ Reply ]
The longer this song goes on, the less I like it.
Posted 9 years ago by plaid    [ Reply ]
Glorious
Posted 9 years ago by onerb    [ Reply ]
 PeeBee wrote:
An average rating of 6? Come on people!
 
Yeah, I guess you are right. Crossover crap like this deserves a 3
Posted 9 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 jagdriver wrote:

The first part (the vocal segment) is mediocre, then all of a sudden it changes course and takes OFF!

 
yep, somehow I've not noticed this before in all the years of hearing it.
Posted 9 years ago by phlattop    [ Reply ]
Good stuff {#Bananajam}{#Laughing}
Posted 9 years ago by frydzia    [ Reply ]
An average rating of 6? Come on people!

Posted 13 years ago by PeeBee    [ Reply ]
 technohippybiker wrote:
Ugh. Noise noise and more noise. When will this song end?
 
How can a technohippybiker not like this?  Very smooth....

Posted 13 years ago by sbegf    [ Reply ]
Ugh. Noise noise and more noise. When will this song end?
Posted 13 years ago by technohippybiker    [ Reply ]
This song has me snakin' my hips and doing high kicks. I know that tomorrow I'll hurt in places I never knew I had, but oh - SO worth it!  Love this....{#Bananasplit}{#Cry}
Posted 14 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
I love that this band made a great version of 'Black Magic Woman" and most people don't realize its a great fleetwood Mac song
Posted 14 years ago by mark63    [ Reply ]
The instrumental outro has shades of Al Di Meola. Interesting that this album came out a year before Elegant Gypsy.

(There are probably shades of Return to Forever, too; their big albums came out earlier. But I wasn't paying much attention to them back then.)

Posted 14 years ago by lee_sf    [ Reply ]
Nice instrumental at the end. Applause!

Posted 14 years ago by iam_overlord    [ Reply ]
 reptillicus wrote:
Oh man, this song may be long, but it is GREAT !
I wish I could cut the end groove into a continuous loop and just keep it running.... Thanks, RP: I had actually not heard this song in a long time and forgotten how cool it is. Nice to have a departure from 2 minute 30 songs of most radio stations !!
 
The first part (the vocal segment) is mediocre, then all of a sudden it changes course and takes OFF!


Posted 14 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
...this is cool...
Posted 14 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
There is great and shorter live version of this on the "Viva" CD
Posted 14 years ago by Peace_tode    [ Reply ]
Wow, I'm surprised this song is getting such a low rating. It's classic Santana man!
Posted 14 years ago by posworld    [ Reply ]
 chinchita wrote:
Depends where you are...in Puerto Rico they call them "guineos" supposedly because they were brought over from Guinea and "plátanos" are plantains (cooking bananas).
 
 algrif wrote:
You're partly right. A small edible banana from the Canaries, for example, is a 'plátano' in Castellano. But a big cooking banana, or plantain, is called a 'banana'. Of course, it all depends on whether you can definitely identify a cartoon e-motion as a banana or a plantain.
 
 xkolibuul wrote:
All depends on your locale. Mexicans call a banana a 'banano' but call a plantain a 'platano'. They also have a bulky square-sided banana variety that is a 'platano macho'. In Central American spanish a 'platano' is similarly a plantain, but a banana is a 'guineo', and the square-sided one a 'platano manzano'. Meanwhile, in the english-speaking Caribbean, a banana is called a 'fig'.
Linguistics is a blast
 
¡Gracias a todos!
Yes, linguistics is a blast.
This is all fascinating, but I'm not going to remember this at all, at least not before I speak Castellano a LOT better.
A banana is "un Plátano" and a plaintain is "una banana", except where it isn't? Pfff...
I like the "plátano macho", though.

I long for Indonesian/Malaysian: dozens of types of bananas, and AFAIK they're all "pisang something-or-other"

¡Seguid bailando, mis amigos amarillos!

Posted 15 years ago by ce    [ Reply ]
 Rendergirl wrote:
um...1070's weeknight TV drama...anyone...anyone?
 
Funny! I was thinking 1980s weeknight TV drama. 1070? Is that a radio call number? As in, when radio stations did the simultaneous stereo broadcast while Miami Vice was on TV?

Other relevant numbers: 1 (my rating)

Posted 15 years ago by Koan    [ Reply ]
I like Santana, but this song just goes on a bit tooooooooo long for my taste.  Let's get on to something completely different.
Posted 16 years ago by theanniewithin    [ Reply ]
 punkbot wrote:
Minutes 84-91 of Santana's seemingly endless 1 song routine...ok, I get it. Cut it out. Take a Colada break or a vacation in the Alps, but put the guitar down and give me a break already.

 
Why don't you take a Colada break ... maybe you wouldn't be so grumpy, then. Sheesh. 
Posted 16 years ago by smehan55    [ Reply ]
Droidac wrote:
Wow, what a great song! Why can't he keep doing stuff like this instead of those horrible collaborations that we've been subjected to over the last several years!
No Alex Ligertwood (lead singer) and this version of his band that cut several excellent pop records in the '80's... they're all gone on to other things. After that group's record sales started heading down, he disbanded it and did a bunch of different jazz collaborations with Buddy Miles, McCoy Tyner and other jazz artists, until the '90's when he started doing the guest vocalist pop records.
Posted 16 years ago by andrewimft    [ Reply ]
Just when I think, "OK, enough noodling Carlos", things change and keep it interesting. It sort of has a Zawinul feel, or maybe Ponty....only on guitar, of course.
Posted 16 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
Wow, what a great song! Why can't he keep doing stuff like this instead of those horrible collaborations that we've been subjected to over the last several years!
Posted 16 years ago by Droidac    [ Reply ]
That's one Santana song you don't hear very often. Very nice.
Posted 16 years ago by Ericac    [ Reply ]
Oh man, this song may be long, but it is GREAT ! I wish I could cut the end groove into a continuous loop and just keep it running.... Thanks, RP: I had actually not heard this song in a long time and forgotten how cool it is. Nice to have a departure from 2 minute 30 songs of most radio stations !!
Posted 16 years ago by reptillicus    [ Reply ]
um...1070's weeknight TV drama...anyone...anyone?
Posted 16 years ago by Rendergirl    [ Reply ]
Kurt_from_La_Qui wrote:
"I Cheat the Hangman" Doobie Brothers.
Aw c'mon, not that bad. Ok, I guess it is tedious.
Posted 16 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
Minutes 84-91 of Santana's seemingly endless 1 song routine...ok, I get it. Cut it out. Take a Colada break or a vacation in the Alps, but put the guitar down and give me a break already.
Posted 16 years ago by punkbot    [ Reply ]
"I Cheat the Hangman" Doobie Brothers.
Posted 16 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
Take out the middle and I really dig this song :)
Posted 16 years ago by sirrus    [ Reply ]
The end of each chorus sounds like the MAD TV theme.
Posted 16 years ago by kindermanltd    [ Reply ]
wow, I feel as if I should be in some groovy chase scene!
Posted 16 years ago by accordionista    [ Reply ]
Tagish_girl wrote:
...still dancing, thanks Bill!
My turn! (~shake-shake-shake~step-step-step~)
Posted 16 years ago by rbigelo    [ Reply ]
Oh, c'mon RP! Now you've got me shaking my bottom and stepping to the rhythm! :-)
Posted 16 years ago by rbigelo    [ Reply ]
Ah, Carlos a legend in his own sandals! Quite good apart from the bit where he gets his doo-dads stuck in the guitar strings and he has fight to get free...
Posted 17 years ago by Trippy    [ Reply ]
All depends on your locale. Mexicans call a banana a 'banano' but call a plantain a 'platano'. They also have a bulky square-sided banana variety that is a 'platano macho'. In Central American spanish a 'platano' is similarly a plantain, but a banana is a 'guineo', and the square-sided one a 'platano manzano'. Meanwhile, in the english-speaking Caribbean, a banana is called a 'fig'. Linguistics is a blast algrif wrote:
You're partly right. A small edible banana from the Canaries, for example, is a 'plátano' in Castellano. But a big cooking banana, or plantain, is called a 'banana'. Of course, it all depends on whether you can definitely identify a cartoon e-motion as a banana or a plantain.
Posted 17 years ago by xkolibuul    [ Reply ]
This song reminds me of the Sesame Street pinball counting song by the Pointer Sisters. You know, the one that goes... One two three four five, Six seven eight nine ten, Eleven twelve!
Posted 17 years ago by esotericderek    [ Reply ]
coding_to_music wrote:
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Posted 17 years ago by Nabla    [ Reply ]
Tagish_girl wrote:
...still dancing, thanks Bill!
Me too! It's nice to have a Latin beat to liven up Monday!
Posted 17 years ago by ginniet    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by dharmanavy    [ Reply ]
Hum... Really don't like it... Not the kind of song I like to hear on RP...
Posted 17 years ago by marcoribas    [ Reply ]
...still dancing, thanks Bill!
Posted 17 years ago by Tagish_girl    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by zipper    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
Ahhh Santana, Radio Paradise is the best!!, just the best rockanroll, no more....
Posted 17 years ago by Loquillo    [ Reply ]
A Santana song I don't hate. Remarkable. Of course, I don't like it either....
Posted 17 years ago by rulebritannia    [ Reply ]
Time to switch off RP .. this song is horrible.
Posted 17 years ago by davin    [ Reply ]
algrif wrote:
You're partly right. A small edible banana from the Canaries, for example, is a 'plátano' in Castellano. But a big cooking banana, or plantain, is called a 'banana'. Of course, it all depends on whether you can definitely identify a cartoon e-motion as a banana or a plantain.
I give this song a big cooking banana! I dig it.
Posted 17 years ago by Dave_Mack    [ Reply ]
ouch
Posted 17 years ago by davin    [ Reply ]
love the earthy feeling of this song....C/Santana rocks!
Posted 17 years ago by redstorm11    [ Reply ]
Sayers of nay! A pox on your semi close relatives! I had to get up and dance when this came on. I danced so hard I hurt my neck. And I don't even dance!
Posted 17 years ago by dorkmeister    [ Reply ]
Yeah, dude plays a hell of a guitar, but vocals just gotta go. 4.
Posted 17 years ago by auburntigerrich    [ Reply ]
More doodle dee per second (ddps) than any other guitarist.
Posted 17 years ago by lionirons    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by coding_to_music    [ Reply ]
On par with the line of shoes he designed. Mainstream at best.
Posted 17 years ago by babyjuice    [ Reply ]
Kevstar wrote:
I hate Santana's guitar playing. Below average.
How do you determine what's ''average''?
Posted 17 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
Does chair dancing count? That's all I'm able to do right now.
Posted 17 years ago by LizDeines    [ Reply ]
The Moonflower version is much better
Posted 17 years ago by whafrog    [ Reply ]
nadz wrote:
if only there was a fast forward button...
Better would be a Delete button so that this wouldn't ever be played again. BOOOOOOOOOOO!
Posted 17 years ago by OldFrenchie    [ Reply ]
Over-produced.
Posted 17 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
ce wrote:
Nice one! Unfortunately, it should be "platano", not banana...
how about Baile, me amigo amarillo...
Posted 17 years ago by celadonstone    [ Reply ]
Waaaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!
Posted 17 years ago by CoYoT51    [ Reply ]
if only there was a fast forward button...
Posted 17 years ago by nadz    [ Reply ]
Derecho wrote:
Needs more cowbell.
Hey, this isn't Blue Oyster Cult!
Posted 17 years ago by Ando    [ Reply ]
ArbiterOfGoodTaste wrote:
This tune sears on Moonflower, a (mostly) live album. This version is incredibly tame in comparison. Edit: OK, this version picks up as it progresses, but the live version is still better!
I couldn't agree more. Moonflower is one of my favorite albums.
Posted 17 years ago by GregX59    [ Reply ]
Needs more cowbell.
Posted 17 years ago by Derecho    [ Reply ]
If the guitar solo towards the end didn't sound half decent I would have left the room or turned down the volume for the entire song!
Posted 17 years ago by ejmusik    [ Reply ]
Hmm, not feeling this one
Posted 17 years ago by Jacksonstat    [ Reply ]
THIS IS SANTANA? I almost turned the radio off when i heard it............instead, i have turned the sound down until the next song appears. Til then, i may hurl so i can purge this from my system....
Posted 17 years ago by WordMariner    [ Reply ]
wtf? this is laughably bad.
Posted 17 years ago by zipper    [ Reply ]
Do I have to be a middle aged sister to get this song?
Posted 17 years ago by davin    [ Reply ]
ce wrote:
You sure? 'cos I'm not. My Spanish teacher insisted that "banana" was wrong. He was from Spain though, perhaps it's (more) OK in America. Google Translate seems to agree with you, but it prefers "plátano".
You're partly right. A small edible banana from the Canaries, for example, is a 'plátano' in Castellano. But a big cooking banana, or plantain, is called a 'banana'. Of course, it all depends on whether you can definitely identify a cartoon e-motion as a banana or a plantain.
Posted 18 years ago by algrif    [ Reply ]
Carlos Santana once was so innovative, but 30 years later... = not more than a 3.
Posted 18 years ago by renlat    [ Reply ]
This tune sears on Moonflower, a (mostly) live album. This version is incredibly tame in comparison. Edit: OK, this version picks up as it progresses, but the live version is still better!
Posted 18 years ago by ArbiterOfGoodTaste    [ Reply ]
Seems like this would make a great drag-queen cover toon...
Posted 18 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
Ehh....... OK I guess
Posted 18 years ago by Johnny_Wave    [ Reply ]
ce wrote:
You sure? 'cos I'm not. My Spanish teacher insisted that "banana" was wrong. He was from Spain though, perhaps it's (more) OK in America. Google Translate seems to agree with you, but it prefers "plátano".
Depends where you are...in Puerto Rico they call them "guineos" supposedly because they were brought over from Guinea and "plátanos" are plantains (cooking bananas).
Posted 18 years ago by chinchita    [ Reply ]
algrif wrote:
Banana tambien. Hombre
You sure? 'cos I'm not. My Spanish teacher insisted that "banana" was wrong. He was from Spain though, perhaps it's (more) OK in America. Google Translate seems to agree with you, but it prefers "plátano".
Posted 18 years ago by ce    [ Reply ]
Utterly fails to rock. And this failure is especially stark after the Mavericks "Dance the Night Away" which was pretty catchy.
Posted 18 years ago by physicsgenius    [ Reply ]
Banana tambien. Hombre
Posted 18 years ago by algrif    [ Reply ]
algrif wrote:
Baila, mi banana..
Nice one! Unfortunately, it should be "platano", not banana...
Posted 18 years ago by ce    [ Reply ]
Kevstar wrote:
I hate Santana's guitar playing. Below average.
This Kev won't say it is below average, but it really doesn't do anything for me. It is grating after awhile.
Posted 18 years ago by KevDogRedux    [ Reply ]
plutodazed wrote:
This song is 8 min. 15 sec. of bliss which gets better as the song progresses. It is as good if not better than Santana's better-known songs such as "Oye Como Va" and "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen." It can be found on "The Best Of Santana" 16-song CD.
this song is 8 min. 15 sec. alright.
Posted 18 years ago by ahoylola    [ Reply ]
I hate Santana's guitar playing. Below average.
Posted 18 years ago by Kevstar    [ Reply ]
Baila, mi banana..
Posted 18 years ago by algrif    [ Reply ]
I am beginning to get a theme of Dancing now
Posted 18 years ago by GChevy410    [ Reply ]
dragged this one out last week for our Cinco de Mayo celebration! Baila.......
Posted 18 years ago by Kite_Flyer    [ Reply ]
Posted 18 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
I appear to have been time-warped back to the 70's. It's definitely groovy here.
Posted 18 years ago by SoundsGoodToMe    [ Reply ]
Hmmm...what could be next: Van Halen "Dance The Night Away" The Gentrys "Keep On Dancin'" The Stones "Dance Little Sister" Awesome fun set Bill - I'm going to donate some $$ right now
Posted 18 years ago by SCJoniguy    [ Reply ]
Dance Bill, dance! Carlos' guitar sound (and sustain) on this song helped convince me Mesa Boogie amps are the hotness.
Posted 18 years ago by tg3k    [ Reply ]
continuing the Dance set. better than the last one dancing queen though.
Posted 18 years ago by master_betty    [ Reply ]
This song is 8 min. 15 sec. of bliss which gets better as the song progresses. It is as good if not better than Santana's better-known songs such as "Oye Como Va" and "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen." It can be found on "The Best Of Santana" 16-song CD.
Posted 19 years ago by plutodazed    [ Reply ]