# Please list songs with a connection to California **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2002, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652 "2002-04-20T08:17:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/41 "2002-04-20T20:19:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DarkWriter \* > \*\* > > I don’t think I’ve heard that song since the 80s. That is a fantastic song, and just thinking about it brings back great memories from my early teens. I’d love to be able to find a copy of it, and I’ve never seen it on any 80s compilation CDs. > > Sheri \*\* I know what you mean. I had to scour Gnutella for days before I found a copy. That opening guitar chord and their vocal harmony is awesome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/42 "2002-04-20T22:55:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > \*\*The title song from the musical “Sunset Boulevard.” AND you can find it in German if you are interested. \*\* I’d also suggest “Let’s Have Lunch” from that musical, if you want something even more connected with the LA movie industry. (In German? I gotta get me some of that …) Another song that comes to mind is Jim Croce’s “Operator,” but just because of the line \*“She’s living in LA / with my best old ex-friend Ray” \* ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/43 "2002-04-20T23:29:29Z")
On a slightly less happy note… “Aenima” (sp?) by Tool “Lullaby”- Shawn Mullins “California King”- Everclear “Celebrity Skin”- Hole “Malibu”- Hole ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/44 "2002-04-20T23:39:47Z")
Sweet Virginia - Rolling Stones (“Thank you for your wine, California”) ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/45 "2002-04-20T23:40:57Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned: \*\* [ul] [li][San Fernando Valley (sung by Roy Rogers)](http://www.americassuburb.com/lyrics.html) [/li][li][California, Here I come (sung by Al Jolson)](http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/sc/events/cacroonin/cacroonin.html) [/li][li][Streets of Bakersfield (sung by Dwight Yoakam)](http://www.yimpan.com/Songsite/Lyric/index.asp?sid=884) [/li][li]Hi Opal![/li][li][Little Boxes (sung by Pete Seeger)](http://www.sfheart.com/Songs/sfsong_T.html)_it’s my sig_ 😉 [/li][/ul]\*\* 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/46 "2002-04-20T23:43:20Z")
“This Land Is Your Land” - Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Islands, From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters, This land was made for you and me. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/47 "2002-04-20T23:43:37Z")
Power-pop corner… “Losing California” - Sloan “Come to California” - Matthew Sweet “Russian Hill” - Jellyfish ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Bianca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Miss\_Bianca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Bianca)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/48 "2002-04-21T00:09:36Z")
San Ber’dino - Frank Zappa She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato… ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/49 "2002-04-21T00:23:34Z")
Estimated Profit the Grateful Dead “California, profit on the burning shore…” ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/50 "2002-04-21T00:33:43Z")
**DarkWriter** > [@](#): > > “Gold” by Stevie Nicks and somebody else (not sure who). > > “When the lights go down in the California town…” I believe that is **John Stewart** “Down in Monterey”- Eric Burden/Animals 'Warm San Francisco Nights"-Eric Burden/Animals “Southern California Purples”- Chicago “I Love L.A.”- Randy Newman “Ukiah”- Doobie Bros. “Life Beyond L.A.”- Ambrosia and “Beverly Hillbillies” theme song ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/51 "2002-04-21T00:48:22Z")
_Dock of the Bay_ by **Otis Redding** ---
**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/52 "2002-04-21T02:48:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hosayf \* > \*\*_West LA Fadeaway_- The Grateful Dead > _Estimated Prophet_- The Grateful Dead > I’m pretty sure there’s one by Chuck Berry, but I can’t think of it off-hand. \*\* The Chuck Berry tune that the Dead played all the time was “Promised Land” sometimes called “Jet”. Some other Dead tunes that mention California, or towns in CA… My Brother Esau Mexicali Blues Standing On The Moon Mision In The Rain So Many Roads ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/53 "2002-04-21T04:03:16Z")
_The Background_, Third Eye Blind: I do the things we did before. I walk Haight Street to the store… And _Santa Monica_, by Savage Garden. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/54 "2002-04-21T04:59:20Z")
_Santa Monica_ - Everclear _California Blue_ - Roy Orbison _San Francisco/Hollywood (Medley)_ - Village People California’s official state song is “I Love You, California”, written by F.B. Silverwood, a Los Angeles merchant. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/55 "2002-04-21T06:08:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Big Kahuna Burger \* > \*\*_Route 66_ by the Rolling Stones (Kingston, Barstow, San Bernadino…It’s all about going west to California) \*\* The Rolling Stones? No kidding? Gawd, you’re so _young!_ Try Nat King Cole in the fifties. “It winds from Chicago to L.A.” Oh, and it’s “Kingman (AZ), Barstow, San Bernardino.” The Rolling Stones. Go figure! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/56 "2002-04-21T06:15:15Z")
Add _ **San Fernando Valley** _ sung by Bing Crosby. I never heard the one by Roy Rogers, but I don’t doubt there was one. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/57 "2002-04-21T06:43:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DesertGeezer \* > \*\*Add _ **San Fernando Valley** _ sung by Bing Crosby. I never heard the one by Roy Rogers, but I don’t doubt there was one. \*\* Check the link provided. I never heard it either, imagine you’d have to see the movie to hear it. I actually heard the Bing Crosby one on the radio. I was livin’ in San Fernando at the time. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/58 "2002-04-21T06:56:22Z")
_The Lady is a Tramp_ - Rodgers/Hart Of course, it describes California as cold and damp, so this may not be what you had in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/59 "2002-04-21T10:19:39Z")
_Don’t marry her_ - The Beautiful South (“And the Sunday sun shines down on San Francisco bay”) _Small Town_ - John Mellencamp (“Married an LA doll and brought her to this small town”) _Oh, California!_ - A reworking of _Oh, Susanna!_ ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-list-songs-with-a-connection-to-california/104652/60 "2002-04-21T14:20:00Z")
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