Song · Tony Bennett
“I Left My Heart In San Francisco” by Tony Bennett
From the album The Singles Collection (2006)
“I Left My Heart In San Francisco” by Tony Bennett appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2001 and 2020. It was first released in 2006 on the album The Singles Collection. Its best result is #784 on the WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,845 indie & aaa song of all time.
Tony Bennett's signature song started life on the flip side: Columbia issued "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in 1962 as the B-side of "Once Upon a Time", and it also gave its title to his album I Left My Heart in San Francisco. George Cory wrote the music and Douglass Cross the words, back in late 1953 in Brooklyn, a continent away from the city in its title.
On the Easy Listening chart it climbed to number seven, San Francisco adopted it as one of its official anthems, and in 2018 the Library of Congress picked it for the National Recording Registry as a recording of cultural, historical or aesthetic significance.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 784 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2020 | 1374 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
Also listed as: I Left My Heart in San Francisco.
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