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- 1Al Jolson's "California, Here I Come" and Its Broadway Origins●"California, Here I Come" is a song interpolated in the # Broadway musical # Bombo , starring # AlJolson . The song was
"California, Here I Come" was written by Bud DeSylva, Joseph Meyer and Al Jolson, and interpolated into the Broadway musical "Bombo", which starred Jolson. He recorded the song on January 17, 1924, with Isham Jones' Orchestra for Brunswick Records in Chicago, helping turn it into one of the defining American standards of the 1920s.