TONY BENNETT - I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO

I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO

TONY BENNETT

SONGWRITERS: G. CORY & D. CROSS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE ESSENTIAL TONY BENNETT - (DUPLO)

LABEL: SONY RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2002

 

           "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" is a popular song, written in the fall of 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, with music by George Cory and lyrics by Douglass Cross (1920–1975) and best known as the signature song of Tony Bennett.

         In 1962, the song was released as a single by Bennett on Columbia Records as the b-side to "Once Upon a Time", peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and was also included on the album I Left My Heart in San Francisco. It also reached number seven on the Easy Listening chart. The song is one of the official anthems for the city of San Francisco. In 2018, it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant

The loveliness of Paris

seems somehow sadly gay

The glory that was Rome

is of another day

I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan

I'm going home to my city by the bay.

 

I left my heart ...in San Francisco

High on a hill, it calls to me.

To be where little cable cars

climb halfway to the stars!

The morning fog may chill the air

I don't care!

 

My love waits there... in San Francisco

Above the blue and windy sea

When I come home to you, San Francisco,

your golden sun will shine for me!