A Foggy Day is a song composed by George Gershwin , with the lyrics of Ira Gershwin and made famous by Fred Astaire in 1937 in the movie A Damsel in Distress 1 .
Notable occasions
- Fred Astaire – (1937), original version from the movie A damsel in distress 1 .
- 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)
- Charles Mingus – Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
- Red Garland – A Garland Of Red [ A Garland of Red (in) ] (1956)
- Doris Day – Hooray for Hollywood (1958)
- Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin (1958), Live in Japan (1973), Gershwin Live! (1982)
- Judy Garland – Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961)
- George Benson – It’s Uptown (1965)
- Micheline Dax and Jacques Bodoin – “Always” (1967)
- Tony Bennett – Perfectly Frank (1992)
- Wynton Marsalis – Standard Time, Volume 1 (1996)
- David Bowie & Angelo Badalamenti – Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove (1998)
- Michael Bublé – It’s Time (2005)
- Rufus Wainwright – Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (2007)
- Cheyenne Jackson – The Power of Two (2009)
See also
- Jazz standard
Notes and references
- ↑ a and b http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/afoggyday.htm [ archive ]