"California, Here I Come" is a song interpolated in the Broadway musical Bombo, starring Al Jolson. The song was written by Bud DeSylva, Joseph Meyer, and Jolson. Jolson recorded the song on January 17, 1924, with Isham Jones' Orchestra, in Brunswick Records' Chicago studio. It is often called the unofficial state song of California. In 2020, it entered the public domain.
1924 advertisement of recording
Al Jolson was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian.
Jolson in 1929
Al Jolson (1920s)
Movie poster, 1927
Poster for Hallelujah, I'm a Bum with unused title