Naked: All Agog for a Good Thick Fog

At an oddly tender moment in Mike Leigh’s Naked, Johnny and Louise indulge in a little bit of good old fashioned nostalgic homesickness. They sing this little song of mysterious origins. One source attributes it to an elementary school principal who wrote it for a school play in 1950, eventually making its way into Leigh’s childhood as a song he would sing during Jewish youth group meetings. Another source remembers it as being part of the Hovis bread ad craze of the 1970s. Either way, the song and the Hovis bread ads (the most popular one directed by a young Ridely Scott) both touch on a the yearning for a false past, the simpler life of foggy old small town England.