Expert: Skeeter - 2/19/2007

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Hi Skeeter,
All I can remember is late 60's early seventies. I used to listen to a barelly there FM station out of Pasadena, CA. The guy had a nice soothing voice, almost like th guy from Journey, Somebody Perry.  Can't think of any unusual instruments, just the standard vocalist, guitars and drums. Don't think they were a foreign band but theb again I can't be sure.
Thanks for your help.
Christy
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Hi Skeeter,
Been haunted by a few lyrics and melody for 30 years.
The song starts out slow and builds up to rock and then I think slows down again. Same era as Blue Cheer and Big Brother.
Here are the lyrics I recall:
Out there it's summertime
Milk and honey day
Oh, San Francisco girls and their San Francisco ways

and then there is something about,
I have to get back to the/my city by the bay.

There is a Journey song that came out many years later that seemed to by influenced by this song but I really don't know.
Thanks for your help. I tried xm cafe but never heard form them.
Christy
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 This is a tough one.  I vaugley recongize the lyrics but cannot place a melody with it.  If you could think of more things, like what instruments you think are in it ( guitars,  organs, or even strange instruments)  and perhaps the singers style of singing..  does he have an accent,  low voice, high voice,  kinda sounds like another singer perhaps?  
 I will keep thinking about this one.  If anything comes to me I will do a follow up.

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I have found a song with similar lyrics,    but  doesn't have all the lyrics you remember,  could this be it or could this song have an exerpt of it that perhaps someone did a medley?

I Left My Heart In San Fransisco

(Cory George C. Jr./Cross Douglass)

The loveliness of Paris
Seems somehow sadly gay
The glory that was Rome
Is of another day
I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan
And I'm coming home to my city by the bay

I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill, it calls to me
To be where little cable cars
Climb halfway to the stars!
And the morning fog will chill the air

My love waits there (my love waits there) in San Francisco
Above the blue and windy sea
When I come home to you, San Francisco,
Your golden sun will shine for me!

I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill, it calls to me
To be where little cable cars
Climb halfway to the stars!
And the morning fog will chill the air

I don't care

My love waits there in San Francisco
Above the blue and windy sea
When I come

When I come home to you, San Francisco,
Your golden sun will shine for me! Yeah