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San Francisco is a 1936 American musical-drama disaster film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy. MacDonald's singing helped make this film a major hit, coming on the heels of her other 1936 blockbuster, Rose Marie.
"Theme from San Francisco," also known as "San Francisco," is a song from the 1936 American film San Francisco. It was written by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann , with lyrics by Gus Kahn . It is sung by Jeanette MacDonald six times in the film, and becomes an anthem for the survivors of the 1906 earthquake .
Tony Bennett (I Left My Heart in San Francisco) (1962) [6] Tony Bennett and Diana Krall (Duets: An American Classic) (2006) [7] Tony Bennett and Diana Krall in Tony Bennett: An American Classic. Documentary directed by Rob Marshall (2006) Michael Bublé (Call Me Irresponsible) (2007) [8] James Darren (This One's from the Heart) (1999) [9]
I Left My Heart in San Francisco" is a popular song, best known as the signature song of Tony Bennett. It was written in late-1953 in Brooklyn, New York , with music by George Cory (1920–1978) and lyrics by Douglass Cross (1920–1975).
The Charlatans were an American folk rock and psychedelic rock band that played a role in the development of the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury music scene during the 1960s. [5] [6] They are often cited by critics as being the first group to play in the style that became known as the San Francisco Sound. [7] [8]
The Hot Club of San Francisco is an American gypsy jazz band. [1] [2] Led by guitarist, songwriter, and arranger Paul 'Pazzo' Mehling, the group uses the instrumentation of violin, bass, and guitars from Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli’s Quintette du Hot Club de France and performs arrangements of gypsy jazz standards, pop songs, and original compositions by Mehling.
The first, directed by Isaac Camner, was produced by the Daddies and filmed at the Café Du Nord nightclub in San Francisco, California. The video depicts the band and a zoot suited Steve Perry performing the song to a group of swing dancers and punk rockers in a smoky lounge, intercut with various shots of surrealist and occult imagery.
The "Texas Tommy Swing" was composed by Sid Brown, with lyrics by Val Harris, and was published by the World's Fair Publishing Company in San Francisco in January or February 1911. The sheet music cover was designed in the form of the front page of a newspaper, with the headline reading "The Dance That Makes the Whole World Stare."