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A Foggy Day(George Gershwin) / Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass

I was a stranger in the city
Out of town were the people I knew
I had that feeling of self-pity
What to do? What to do? What to do?
The outlook was decidedly blue
But as I walked through the foggy streets alone
It turned out to be the luckiest day I've known

A foggy day in London Town
Had me low and had me down
I viewed the morning with alarm
The British Museum had lost its charm
How long, I wondered, could this thing last?
But the age of miracles hadn't passed,
For, suddenly, I saw you there
And through foggy London Town
The sun was shining everywhere.

突然間，我看見你身處在起霧的倫敦城市中，陽光開始照耀著每一處.......

這首1937年由喬治蓋西文所寫的"A Foggy Day"描寫倫敦的霧天，並述說在霧散之後，看到愛人及和煦陽光灑落景緻的心境。

以彈奏技術來說此曲不難，佩服作曲的喬治蓋西文，只是在幾處巧妙加上"半音階"，就可以讓人對歌曲旋律印象深刻。

以往看素人歌唱比賽，總會看到選手面臨"撞牆期"，那就是怎麼唱都不對的時期~從自己練習吉他以來，也常有這樣的感覺。某些時候總覺得進展很慢很慢，雖然保持每天練習，但就是覺得在原地踏步，因為也不知道如何突破？索性就只能持續練習、練習、再練習！就這樣，突然某日，感覺腦袋某處通了！手指靈活了！節奏、旋律可以輕鬆掌握了！那時心情就如同走出重重迷霧後，看到眼前一片光明景象"柳暗花明又一村"~~那時我知道，又往前跨了一步。。

既然是描寫"A Foggy Day"，當然就得要那如霧般的迷濛~

輕快愉悅的Red Garland版本~

A Foggy Day / Red Garland Trio / A Garland of Red(1956)

特立獨行的Bass手Charlies Mingus的版本應該要算是最奇特的~製造模仿一些城市中的聲響，試圖擬境，倒也有趣！

A Foggy Day / Charlies Mingus / Pithecanthropus Erectus(1956)