How did Tony Bennett become attached to San Francisco?

Although the song was originally written because Claramae Turner, who often used it as an encore, she forever got about to recording it. The shanty forfeit its way on Tony Bennett through Ralph Sharon, Bennett's longtime accompanist also friends among the composers.
In 1962 on San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel in the unknown Venetian Room, Tony Bennett first peach 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco.'