Best Foot Forward

• Original Broadway Production (1941)
  New York, NY
• Film Version (1943)
• Railroad Hour Broadcast (1949)
• State Fair Musicals Production (1953)
  Dallas, TX
• Television Production (1954)
• Off-Broadway Revival (1963)
  New York, NY
• Equity Library Theatre Revival (1975)
  New York, NY
• Musicals in Mufti Production (2004)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Don't Sell the Night Short
• Three Men on a Date
• That's How I Love the Blues
• The Three B's
  • aka Three B's [no note]
• Everytime
  • aka Ev'ry Time [alternate title]
• The Guy Who Brought Me
  • aka The Guy Who Brought Me Can't Send Me [alternate title]
• I Know You By Heart
• Shady Lady Bird
  • aka Shady Lady-Bird [no note]
• Buckle Down, Winsocki
  • aka BUCKLE DOWN WINSOCKI [no note]
  • aka Buckle Down Winsocki [no note]
• My First Promise
  • aka My First Promise at My First Prom [alternate title]
• What Do You Think I Am?
• Just a Little Joint with a Juke Box
  • aka Just a Little Joint With a Juke-Box [no note]
• Where Do You Travel?
• I'll Gladly Trade

Added to film version

• Wish I May
• Alive and Kicking
• You're Lucky
• Two O'Clock Jump
• Flight of the Bumble Bee
  • aka Flight of the Bumblebee [no note]

Added to television production

• Gotta Dance
• Put the Ugh in the Mambo

Added to 1963 revival

• Hollywood Story
• Raving Beauty
• You Are for Loving

Added to 1975 revival

• Oscar

Written for the Mufti production

• Up to My Eyebrows

Added to 1953 State Fair Musicals Production

• Blubber Pie
• Oogie Oogie Wa Wa
• The Winsocki Institute of Liberal Education

Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane made a pact in 1941 never to reveal who wrote what. In the ensuing years, however, both composers have stipulated individual credits for some songs. The credits shown here are as specified by Hugh Martin.