San Diego Songs
The San Diego Blog wonders where all the songs about San Diego are. Well this website is named after "San Diego Serenade" by Tom Waits. "San Diego Serenade" isn't some song pandering to the residents of a city though, calling out local landmarks and such. It's really just a love song and if you listened to the lyrics, you'd really have no way of guessing the song's title. However, based on the short list of songs that people are coming up with, I guess we will have to take what we can get. In addition to "San Diego Serenade," Tom Waits' "I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)" off of the album Small Change and "The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)" off of "The Heart of Saturday Night," both share the record for the longest song title that happens to be about a small slice of life in San Diego. They detail the time Waits spent working at the infamous National City Pizza House.
For further information about how strapped San Diego is for a song, this commenter seems to think that the best song ever written about San Diego was by the Velvet Fog himself, Mr. Mel Torme. He puts out a call for a local band to cover it as their ticket to stardom. You had better hurry though, because the rendition of it that he claims Mel Torme's son and one of the members of Toto are working on is going to be tough to beat.
Lord....
