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Zebop!

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{{Infobox album

| name = Zebop!

| type = Album

| artist = Santana

| cover = SantanaZebopAlbum.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1981|04|29}}

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = The Automatt, San Francisco, California

| genre = *Rock

| length = 47:12

| label = Columbia

| producer = Carlos Santana, Bill Graham, Keith Olsen

| prev_title = Marathon

| prev_year = 1979

| next_title = Shangó

| next_year = 1982

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Zebop!

| type = studio

| single1 = Changes

| single1date = 1981

| single2 = Searchin'

| single2date = 1981

| single3 = Winning

| single3date = 1981

| single4 = The Sensitive Kind

| single4date = 1981

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/zebop!-mw0000191748|title=Zebop! - Santana | Album|website=AllMusic|access-date=June 4, 2025}}

| rev2 = Rolling Stone

| rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/santana/albumguide|title=Santana: Album Guide|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=April 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128073225/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/santana/albumguide|archive-date=January 28, 2012|url-status=dead}}

}}

Zebop! is the 12th studio album by the American rock band Santana. The album had several releases, and various different color cover backgrounds, including pink and red. The album featured "Winning"; both the album and single were one of Santana's last top 40 hits until 1999 with their release of Supernatural.

Track listing

=Side one=

  1. "Changes" (Cat Stevens) – 4:27
  2. "E Papa Ré" (Carlos Santana, Richard Baker, David Margen, Orestes Vilató, Alex Ligertwood) – 4:32
  3. "Primera Invasión" (Lear, Margen, Alan Pasqua, Santana) – 2:08
  4. "Searchin'" (Ligertwood, Santana, Chris Solberg) – 3:54
  5. "Over and Over" (Rick Meyers) – 4:46
  6. "Winning" (Russ Ballard) – 3:28

=Side two=

  1. "Tales of Kilimanjaro" (Pasqua, Armando Peraza, Raul Rekow, Santana) – 3:24
  2. "The Sensitive Kind" (J.J. Cale) – 3:32
  3. "American Gypsy" (Ligertwood, Peraza, Santana, D. Margen, G. Lear, O. Vilató, R. Rekow, R. Baker) – 3:39
  4. "I Love You Much Too Much" (Alexander Olshanetsky, Don Raye, Chaim Tauber) – 4:43
  5. "Brightest Star" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 4:49
  6. "Hannibal" (Ligertwood, Pasqua, Rekow, Santana) – 3:41

Personnel

;Technical

Charts

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=Weekly charts=

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! Chart (1981)

! Peak
position

scope="row"| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}

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{{Album chart|Austria|12|artist=Santana|album=Zebop!|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
{{Album chart|Canada|16|chartid=0355|artist=Santana|album=Zebop!|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
{{Album chart|Netherlands|20|artist=Santana|album=Zebop!|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
scope="row"| Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts){{cite book|last=Pennanen|first=Timo|title=Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972|edition=1st|publisher=Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava|location=Helsinki|year=2006|isbn=978-951-1-21053-5| language= fi}}

| align="center"| 12

scope="row"| French Albums (SNEP){{Cite web|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_S.php |website =Infodisc.fr |language=fr |access-date=June 9, 2012 |title=Le Détail des Albums de chaque Artiste – S |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022124902/http://infodisc.fr/Album_S.php |archive-date=October 22, 2014 }} Select Santana from the menu, then press OK.

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{{Album chart|Germany4|21|id=9064|artist=Santana|album=Zebop!|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
scope="row"|Italian Albums (Musica e Dischi){{cite web|url=http://www.musicaedischi.it/classifiche_archivio.php|title=Classifiche|work=Musica e Dischi|language=it|access-date=June 6, 2024}} Set "Tipo" on "Album". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Santana".

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scope="row"|Japanese Albums (Oricon){{cite book|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005|publisher=Oricon Entertainment|location=Roppongi, Tokyo|year=2006|isbn=4-87131-077-9|language=ja}}

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{{Album chart|New Zealand|23|artist=Santana|album=Zebop!|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
{{Album chart|Norway|3|artist=Santana|album=Zebop!|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
{{Album chart|Sweden|9|artist=Santana|album=Zebop!|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
{{Album chart|UK2|33|date=19810419|refname=UK albums|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
scope="row" | US Billboard Top LPs & Tape{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/santana/chart-history/tlp/|title=Santana Chart History|magazine=Billboard|access-date=June 6, 2024}}

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scope="row"| US Soul LPs (Billboard)

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=Year-end charts=

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scope="col"| Chart (1981)

! scope="col"| Position

scope="row"| US Billboard 200{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1981/top-billboard-200-albums|title=Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1981|magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 13, 2021}}

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Certifications

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|title=Zebop!|artist=Santana|award=Platinum|relyear=1981|certyear=1999}}

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Music videos

Six videos were shot from this album on video with multiple cameras in a mock concert setting on what was then the A&M Stage at A&M Records, on La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California (now owned by the Jim Henson Company). They were directed by Bruce Gowers and produced by Paul Flattery. The Director of Photography was Jerry Watson. The tracks shot were:

  1. "Changes"
  2. "E Papa Ré"
  3. "Searchin'"
  4. "Over and Over"
  5. "Winning" (Russ Ballard) – 3:28
  6. "I Love You Much Too Much"

References

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Category:Santana (band) albums

Category:1981 albums

Category:Albums produced by Carlos Santana

Category:Albums produced by Keith Olsen

Category:Columbia Records albums

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