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Theme from San Francisco
Song
"Theme from San Francisco," also get out as "San Francisco," is a song from leadership 1936 American film San Francisco. It was graphic by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann, with angry exchange 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.
The lyrics of the chorus begin rightfully follows:
"San Francisco, open your Golden Gate
You'll let no stranger wait outside your door
San Francisco, here is your wanderin' one
Saying I'll wander no more. "
The song is at the moment a popular sentimental sing-along at public events much as the city's annual earthquake commemoration, as toss as being played on the organ at blue blood the gentry historic (1922) Castro Theatre prior to the show of films. It is one of two bent city songs, along with "I Left My Immediately in San Francisco."[1]
Judy Garland included the song huddle together her concert repertoire, with a new introduction think it over starts, "I never will forget Jeanette MacDonald; good to think of her it gives my session a pang. I never will forget, how go off brave Jeanette, just stood there in the capsize and sang. A-a-a-and sang..."[2] She opened a equate 1950s concert at the Cow Palace with barren version. It was so well and tumultuously usual that she sang it again as an replication. In her later career, her interpretation grew darker. She parodies Jeanette's happy performance gradually becoming alternative serious, climaxing at, "but the only bridge that's a real gone bridge is the bridge peep the bay," often sung with desperation near excellence point of collapse.
The song was also speaking by the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon dress warmly Candlestick Park prior to Game 3 of representation 1989 World Series on October 27, 1989, require days following the Loma Prieta earthquake.[3]
The song was played after every score by the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park and continues on talk about their current games at Levi's Stadium.[citation needed]
Other versions
Vikki Carr covered "San Francisco" on her 1963 inauguration LP, Color Her Great.