Nat Shilkret Orchestra - California Here I Come (1928) (By Al Jolson, Bud DeSylva & Joseph Meyer)

Nat Shilkret (center holding baton) with the Victor Salon Orchestra, c. 1925

Nat Shilkret (1889-1982; extreme left) conducting a radio or studio group of musicians in the 1920s.

California, Here I Come
I'm comin' right back where I started from 

Where bowers of flowers
bloom in the sun. 

Each morning at dawning
birdies sing at everything
a sunkissed miss said, "Don't be late!"
That's why I can hardly wait 

Just open up that golden gate
California, Here I Come