{"id":5454,"date":"2012-02-14T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2012-02-14T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:41:17","slug":"a-song-inof-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5454","title":{"rendered":"A Song in\/of My Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"At noon (Pacific) in San Francisco, in honor of Valentine’s Day, there will be a concerted effort to get the entire city to sing along with Tony Bennett<\/a>‘s classic “I Left My Heart in San Francisco<\/a>“. I know this because the LA Times has a nice article on the effort, including a discussion of why “I Left My Heart…” is not<\/em> the official city song<\/a> (answer: because Quentin Kopp hates it). Now I’ve never heard of the song Kopp likes (something from a 1936 film), so I’d go with the Bennett standard myself.<\/p>\n

Now, Los Angeles doesn’t have an official city song to my knowledge (although both Los Angeles County<\/a> and LAX<\/a> do, although I’ve never heard them). If LA did want a song, my vote would go for Randy Newman’s “I Love LA<\/a>“, which I always thought should be our song.<\/p>\n

So, here’s my question to you: Does your city\/community have an official song? Is it the song you would pick? And in honor of Valentine’s Day, does it have to do with love?<\/p>\n

[P.S.: From the grammarians out there: Should Valentine’s Day be like Caesars Palace<\/a>, which eschews the apostrophe because Jay Sarno (its founder) felt that every guest was a Caesar<\/a>, or should it it have the apostrophe because it is the day of [St.] Valentine, hence “Valentine’s Day”. By the way, the same question applies to the upcoming “Presidents”, or is that “President’s”, day.]<\/p>\n

Music: <\/strong>Dueling Banjos<\/em> (Eric Weissberg, Steve Mandel): Bugle Call Rag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At noon (Pacific) in San Francisco, in honor of Valentine’s Day, there will be a concerted effort to get the entire city to sing along with Tony Bennett‘s classic “I Left My Heart in San Francisco“. I know this because the LA Times has a nice article on the effort, including a discussion of why Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}