A Foggy Day

"A Foggy Day" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film A Damsel in Distress. It was originally titled "A Foggy Day (In London Town)" in reference the atmospheric setting of the city with its pea soup fogs, and is often still referred to as such.

Notable recordings

• Fred Astaire - A Damsel in Distress (1937), original soundtrack recording.
• Carroll Gibbons And The Savoy Hotel Orpheans (1937) (with Anne Lenner)
• Frank Sinatra - Songs for Young Lovers (1953), Ring-A-Ding-Ding (1960), Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris (1994), Duets II (1994), Sinatra '57 in Concert (1999)
• Ella Fitzgerald - Ella and Louis (1956) (with Louis Armstrong), Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert (1958), Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959), Take Love Easy (1973), Nice Work If You Can Get It (1983)
• Dinah Washington - After Hours with Miss "D" (1954)
• Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
• Billie Holiday - Songs for Distingué Lovers (1957)
• Coby Dijon - Quando os Peixotos se encontram (1957)
• Dakota Staton - The Late, Late Show (1957
• Doris Day - Hooray for Hollywood (1958)
• Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin (1958), Live in Japan (1973), and Gershwin Live! (1982)
• Shirley Bassey - The Fabulous Shirley Bassey (1959)
• Judy Garland - Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961)
• Petula Clark - I Know a Place (1965)
• George Benson - It's Uptown (1965)
• Tony Bennett - Perfectly Frank (1992)
• Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time, Volume 1 (1996)
• David Bowie & Angelo Badalamenti - Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove (1998)
• Chris Connor - Warm Cool: The Atlantic Years (2000)
• Michael Bublé - It's Time (2005)
• Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (2007)
• Cheyenne Jackson - The Power of Two (2009)
• Johnny Dankworth - Too Cool For The Blues (2010)

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards