"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" is a traditional pop tune best known as Tony Bennett's signature song. It was written in late 1953 in Brooklyn by George Cory (music) and Douglass Cross (lyrics) about nostalgia for San Francisco. Bennett recorded it on January 23, 1962 at CBS’s 30th Street Studio in New York, and it was released February 2, 1962 as the B-side to "Once Upon a Time" on Columbia Records - the flip side soon became the hit. The song appears on the album I Left My Heart in San Francisco and runs about 2 minutes 52 seconds. It reached No 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No 7 on the Easy Listening chart, won the Grammy for Record of the Year and Best Male Solo Vocal Performance, and was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame - it is also one of the official anthems of the city of San Francisco, with ties to the Fairmont Hotel and a statue and street name honoring Bennett.
