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And I've been in media for 10 years! So you'd think that our paths would have crossed, but, nope. I've lived in SF for 17 years, and in the Outer Sunset (where he lives/used to live, depending on whom you believe) for over a decade. Want to hear something weird? I've never met Chris Isaak. But this is one of the catchiest and best San Francisco songs you've never heard. It's a quirky little song about "meeting my love on the Golden Gate" that starts out with a funny intro about "a lot of songs have been written about San Francisco" and the requisite cable car reference. The Velvet Fog himself wrote this tribute to a city he called "more welcoming" than New York. "Got the Gate on the Golden Gate" by Mel Tormé Whether it's Sun Kil Moon singing about eating crab cakes at Perry's, or Jerry Garcia singing about the Mission in the rain, this is what our real soundtrack is, when we're not in a ballpark.Ģ0. These songs form the lyrical base of SF's modern-day songbook. We wanted to make a list of more obscure San Francisco songs, particularly those that mention actual places in the city, even if the references are just in passing. Let's get this out of the way: You won't find Tony Bennett on this list, or the equally great Judy Garland and her bouncy anthem " San Francisco." You also won't find any of the other generic San Francisco songs that everyone knows even though we'll admit that Journey's " Lights," which has been adopted by the Giants along with "Don't Stop Believin'," is probably the best song that's vaguely about San Francisco there is, even though Steve Perry admits the original lyric was "when the sun shines on L.A.," and he changed it because "the Bay" sounded better.