A Foggy Day

"A Foggy Day" is a popular song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.^[3] The song was introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film A Damsel in Distress. It was originally titled "A Foggy Day (In London Town)" in reference to the pollution-induced pea soup fogs that were common in London during that period, and is often still referred to by the full title.
The commercial recording by Astaire for Brunswick was very popular in 1937.^[4]

"A Foggy Day"
Song by Fred Astaire
B-side	"I Can't Be Bothered Now"
Published	September 16, 1937 (1937-09-16) by Gershwin Publishing Corp., New York[1]
Released	November 1937
Recorded	October 17, 1937[2]
Studio	Los Angeles, California
Genre	Jazz, Pop Vocal
Label	Brunswick 7982
Composer(s)	George Gershwin
Lyricist(s)	Ira Gershwin
Fred Astaire singles chronology
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (1937) "A Foggy Day" (1937) "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (1937)

Other recordings

• Frank Sinatra – Songs for Young Lovers (1953)^[5]
• Ella Fitzgerald on her Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book from Verve Records, 1959, and on Nice Work If You Can Get It (1983)^[6]
• Charles Mingus – Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)^[5]
• Louis Armstrong with Ella Fitzgerald – Ella and Louis (1956)^[5]
• Billie Holiday – Songs for Distingué Lovers (1957)^[5]
• Red Garland – Red Garland at the Prelude (1959)^[5]
• Frank Sinatra — Ring-a-Ding-Ding! (1961)
• Judy Garland — Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961)
• George Benson – It's Uptown (1965)^[5]
• Sarah Vaughan – Live in Japan (1973)^[5]
• Lyn Collins – Check Me Out if You Don't Know Me By Now (1975)^[5]
• Wynton Marsalis – Marsalis Standard Time, Volume 1 (1987)^[5]
• Tony Bennett – MTV Unplugged (1994)
• David Bowie – Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove (1998)
• Michael Bublé – It's Time (2005)
• Willie Nelson – My Way (2018)

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards