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—Geoffrey Pond, artistic director and co-founder of Berkeley's Subterranean Shakespeare Theatre Presents, has taken that alternative song to that tune written in Brooklyn in 1952 and made famous by Tony Bennett's 1962 single—but here we're talking about Tommy Wolf's 'I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco,' popularized by Carmen McRae in 1968 and later by Nancy Wilson, but first recorded by Cannonball Adderley in 1965 with the still-great Ernie Andrews singing it—and made it the title of his first solo show, one of the few things Geoff hasn't tried onstage or behind the scenes in his long local career ... -more-