Spencer Day returns to SF with his retro charm

Singer-songwriter Spencer Day is out of time — not in the “sands through the hourglass” sense, but rather like he’s a visitor from another era. It’s almost as if Mel Torme and Andy Williams time-traveled from the 1950s, dropped by Elton John and Billy Joel in the 1970s to borrow some of their piano-man mojo, then landed in the lanky form of Day.

With his throaty baritone, Day — a former San Franciscan who splits his time between Los Angeles and New York — is a champagne crooner who knows how to write catchy, jazzy songs that feature his goofy sense of humor as well as his attraction to the darker side of life and love. On Friday, Aug.