"California Wine" Bobby Goldsboro

"California Wine" is a 1972 pop song by Bobby Goldsboro, the legendary singer, songwriter, guitarist, TV producer and renowned painter.

Full of catchy 'hit record' pop hooks, Goldsboro's musical nod to California tells the tale of a guy who picks up a female hitch-hiker on a highway "somewhere in Tennessee".  The song's femme fatale uses her womanly wiles to convince him to drive her all the way to California.

According to the song's lyrics, the dude couldn't resist the hitch-hiker's "sweet California wine".  The sexy chick kept on offering him more California wine until he could "hear California calling".  No doubt!

Wait a minute.  The guy was guzzling the 'vino' while driving westward across several states?  Call the Highway Patrol and get the hell off the road!

"California Wine" is one of the great California songs that sounds like Bobby Goldsboro really intended it for Neil Diamond or Elvis Presley to record --- though Goldsboro does an excellent job himself.

The song is strangely intoxicating and it will get stuck in your head forever.

A well-crafted pop single, Bobby Goldsboro's "California Wine" is classic 1972 gloss-pop with just enough cheese to top the nachos that the song's 'Taco Bell' trumpets suggest.

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