Just in mp3s because I don't have an efficient way to search non-digital content w/o spending more time on it than I want to. So, also eleven:

California Girls - David Lee Roth
California - Phantom Planet
California Dreamin' - Beach Boys
California Saga - Beach Boys
California Girls - Beach Boys
California Man - Cheap Trick
Gone to California - Pink
Hotel California - Eagles
Take California - Propellerheads
California Sun - Ramones
Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers

If you count just songs that specifically mention Calfornia

California -- Joni Mitchell
California Blues -- Jimmie Rogers
California Dreamin' -- Mamas and the Papas
Goodbye California -- Jolie Holland
Heads Carolina, Tails California -- Jo Dee Messina
Hotel California -- Eagles

I swear I had some PJ Harvey in there and I can't find her anywhere in my library, which is not making me happy.

My CA mixtape included X's Los Angeles , Depeche Mode's version of Route 66 and The Kinks' Celluloid Heroes.

I have:

California Uber Alles - The Dead Kennedys
California Uber Alles - The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
California in Popular Song - The Lucksmiths
California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco
California Throat - Alex H (which is a mashup including bits of California Dreaming)
Hotel California - The Cat Empire

Hmmm, some stuff I don't see yet:

Rheostatics - California Dreamline
Tom Waits - Medley - Jack & Neal - California, Here I Come
R.E.M. - I Remember California
Gram Parsons - California Cottonfields
Johnny Cash - Friends In California
Neko Case - In California
Kings of Leon - California Waiting
Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars.

Plus some of the stuff mentioned above! Also? I wish I'd just loaded the word California into the clipboard instead of seeing HOW MANY WAYS I CAN MIS-TYPE IT.

And...I realize now that some of the stuff I mentioned has already been mentioned. Ah well.

I have:

Going to California - Led Zeppelin
California Nights - Sweet
I Remember California - R.E.M.
It Never Rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond
California Girls - The Magnetic Fields

I have a bunch of things already mentioned, but here's one I bet no one else has:

Robert Charlebois - California

In addition to some of those already mentioned [I have songs from at least four people's lists too]

Nevada City, California - Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco [the same as yours, danf?]
Califoria Bingo - Ass Ponys
Southern California Wants To Be Western New York - Dar Williams
The Dying Californian - Cordelia's Dad
California Paradise - The Runaways
California Blues - Crooked Jades

I also have Richard Brautigan's album These Are The Sounds of my Life in San Francisco. Which takes me to a few more...

San Francisco - Cordelia's Dad
Fake Tales of San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys
Come Back from San Francisco - Magnetic Fields
San Francisco Bay Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliot

Also

The World Began in Eden and Ended in Los Angeles - Phil Ochs
X's Los Angeles Album

Nevada City, California - Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco [the same as yours, danf?]

Yes. Love it! I left Ani off just for the sake of simplification.

We're all so sick of California songs
We know you love L.A.
There's nothing left to say
Please no more California songs.

Local H - California Songs

California Girls - The Magnetic Fields
California Dreamin' - Mamas and Papas
California Girls - Beach Boys
California- Josh Ritter
California- Low
California- Mylene Farmer
California Blues- Doc & Merle Watson
California One Youth and Beauty- The Decembrists
California Waiting- Birdie
Hotel California- Eagles
In California- Joanna Newsom
Not California- Hem
Sleepy California- Her Space Holiday
A Supermarket in California- Allen Ginsberg (does a poetry reading count?)
Tape from California- Phil Ochs
Why I left California- Liz Phair

If we are doing cities, then here are some that haven't been hit yet:
Coming In to Los Angeles- Arlo Guthrie
Los Angeles- Neutral Milk Hotel
Los Angeles- Rosewood Thieves
Los Angeles, I'm Yours- The Decemberists

What, nobody else has admitted to owning California Gurls by Katy Perry? Technically, neither have I.

I have a bit of Kate Perry:
California Jump - Kate Perry ft. Snoop Dog vs. Van Halen (Best of Bootie)

Also:
California uber alles - Dead Kennedy's
Hotel California - the Eagles
F**k California - Presidents of the USA
Should've California - Two Cow Garage

California Über Alles - Dead Kennedys
California Love - 2Pac

That's all I can think of right now.

I have The Kingston Trio singing "Going Home (California)."

Paper Tounges - Ride to California (Great hard rocking song!)
San Andreas Fault - Natalie Merchant


That's it, unless Venice Beach is known as Panic Beach? Panic Beach is a Maria McKee song that I have, and I always assumed it was talking about Venice Beach, but google doesn't help me there.

Alejandro Escovedo - California Blues
Annette - California Sun
Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars
California Oranges - I Know You Feel The Same Way Too & Run Away
California Liar - California Bound
David Holmes - California Soul
David Lee Roth - California Girls
Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
Dickie Betts & Great Southern - California Blues
The Dictators - California Sun
Dr Dre - California Love
Dread Zeppelin - Going to California
Dresden Dolls - Shores of California
Gary Hoey - California Dreamin
Gomez - California
Gypsy Kings - Hotel California
Hayseed Dixie - Hotel California
The Impossibles - California
Jem - California Sun
Johnathon Richman - California Desert
Katie Enlow - California's Where Its At
Kings of Leon - California Waiting
Led Zeppelin - Going to California
little Richard - California, I'm Comin
Los Straitjackets - California Sun
Low - California
Luna - California All The Way
Majek Fashek - Hotel California
That Makes Nice - California sun
Marlena Shaw - California Soul
Marvin Gaye - California Soul
Mason Jennings - California Pt 2
Me first & The Gimme Gimmes - Hotel California
The Moog Cookbook - Hotel California
Motorpsycho - Go To California
Neko Case - In California
Old 97's - Just Like California
Olivia Tremor Control - California Demise
Penny Wise - Hotel California
Phantom Planet - California
PJ Harvey & John Parish - Leaving California
Propellerheads - Take California
Queen Latifah - California Dreamin
REM - I Remember California
Ramones - California Sun
Rancid - California Sun
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California & Californiacation
Reel Big Fish - Hotel California
The Rentals - California
The Rivieras - California Sun
Rogue Wave - California
Rufus Wainwright - California
The Runaways - California Paradise
Stereophonics - Plastic California
The Stills - Snow In California
ToToM - Sligo, California
The Transplants - California Babylon
Undisputed Truth - California Soul
Wolf Parade - California Dreamin
Wooden Ships - Dance, California
Young Holt Unlimited - California Montage
Yuno - California (Phonique Remix)
Zapp & Roger - California Love

mannnnnnnnn thats a lot of them and i know i have the eagles and mamas & papas versions in here somewhere .

I'd say of all of them, California Soul by Marlena Shaw is my fav . there have been quite a few cool remixes of it too