A Foggy Day is a popular song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film A Damsel in Distress and was originally titled A Foggy Day (In London Town) - in reference to London's pea soup fogs. The song was published September 16, 1937 and released as a Brunswick 7982 single in November 1937, after being recorded in Los Angeles on October 17, 1937. It sits in the Jazz and Pop Vocal genres and has become a jazz standard, covered by many artists over the decades. Notable versions include Frank Sinatra on Songs for Young Lovers (1953), as well as Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and others, making it a staple of mid-20th century vocal jazz.
