I Left My Heart In San Francisco

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Does anyone like this song? What is the best version?

And why did I previously think it went differently from how it actually goes, at least on Julie London's version?

― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Residents' version sucks. I don't know any others.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

It's Tony Bennett's "signature song" and his version is the standard others should be judged against. Bennett was responsible for the best live performance I've ever heard but I tend to find him disappointing on record. It's unfortunate he's best known for this song, which is a kind of "My Way" equivalent for him.

― ArfArf, Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I like Bennett much. Possibly I am 'prejudiced'.

I don't know the Residents.

I find I have come to feel that Julie London's versions are ALWAYS the best of ALL standards. This feels a tad monotonously monocular (monaurular?), but is at least not quite as dull as saying the same thing about Sinatra. It's in the arrangements, as much as the voice.

re. the song: I like the way it travels through various cities in the first verse.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

This condemns me as a dullard, then. The only defence I can offer is that my Sinatra obsession is old enough to have started in the days that only your dad was expected to like him. So I've gone from weirdly uncool to briefly cool to predictably uncool by continuing to like the same thing.

― ArfArf, Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

yer all deluded & fey, ha.
it wasn't San Francisco, was El Segundo, and 'twasnot a bleedin' heart - was a fkn w a l l e t!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

(Naturally I love Sinatra too, AA - no slur on his fans was implied!)

― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

i remember after first moving to san francisco, my mother played this song in the background of her outgoing answering machine message :]

― drystereo (drystereo), Friday, 28 March 2003 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

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