Golden Gate Medley

Golden Gate (Jolson, Meyer, Dryer, Rose)
California Here I Come (Jolson, Meyer, De Sylva)
Arranged and performed by Charlie Wheeler
Instrumentation: Guitar, Upright Bass, Ukulele, Banjo Ukulele, Baritone Ukulele, Train Sounds, and a boat-load of vocals.
Joseph Meyer composed the music for “California Here I Come” in 1924 with Al Jolson and Bud De Sylva writing the lyrics. Meyer, Dave Dreyer and Al Jolson composed “Golden Gate” in 1928 with Billy Rose as the lyricist. The two songs are essentially the same…why they wrote the same song four years later is beyond me but there must be a story behind this, if anyone knows the background I’d love to hear it.
I threw everything but the kitchen sink into this recording which I made back in the summer of 2020 but never released. All vocals and instrumentals are performed by me. Railroad sounds are from my collection of 1940’s radio sound effects 78’s.
I hitchhiked from Princeton New Jersey to San Francisco in September 1974 and lived there until 1980. My dreadnaught acoustic guitar was built in San Francisco in 1975 by the late Richard Collopy. I met and married my wife in SF and we had our first son there. This recording is my love song to California in general and San Francisco in particular.

[@BillJones]

The sun-kissed blonde and city by the bay 😂💀 So good!

[@charliewheeler14]

Thanks Bill! I had fun with this one.