"Let's Go to San Francisco" is the only UK-charting

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 single

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 by the British pop

Pop music

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 group The Flower Pot Men. A light-hearted pastiche of the work of Brian Wilson

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, the song achieved a similar musical level and has remained popular. The song could be mistaken for a Beach Boys single.

The song was written and produced by John Carter

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 and Ken Lewis

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, engineered

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 by John Mackswith

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 and released in 1967

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 on 7" single

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 format..

Chart performance

The song was a Top 10 hit single

Hit single

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 in a number of countries. It peaked at #9 in Norway and #4 in the United Kingdom

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.

Compilation album usage

The song has since appeared on many "Best of the 60s" compilation album

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s since its release, such as the 1997 Polygram TV release The First Summer Of Love: SIXTIES.

Italian covers

There were two different versions with different texts written in Italian: the most famous was "Inno", performed by the Milanese band Dik-Dik

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. There was also "Trovare un mondo" ("To find a world"), sung by a little known artist, Mimmo Diamante, and published by ARC

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, a subsdiary label of RCA Italiana.