BEST FOOT FORWARD

Composers: Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
Lyricists: Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane

Opened: October 1, 1941, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 326

Note: Only numbers not found on the 1963 Off-Broadway revival cast recording are noted below.

Don't Sell The Night Short:

1. Everyone Else Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-146 (The Populaires)


Exit Music (film version):

1. Best Foot Forward, CD/Rhino Handmade RHM2 7774 (M-G-M Studio Orchestra conducted by Lennie Hayton)


I Know You By Heart:

1. Best Foot Forward, CD/Rhino Handmade RHM2 7774 (Tommy Dix with the M-G-M Studio Orchestra conducted by Lennie Hayton)
2. Everyone Else Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-146 (Arthur Siegel and Patty Wyss)


My First Promise (The Ring Waltz):

1. Best Foot Forward, CD/Rhino Handmade RHM2 7774 (Helen Forrest and Beverly Tryler with Harry James and His Orchestra)


Overture (M: Robert Russell Bennett) (film version):

1. Best Foot Forward, CD/Rhino Handmade RHM2 7774 (M-G-M Studio Orchestra conducted by Lennie Hayton)


That's How I Love The Blues (M/L: Hugh Martin):

1. Martin & Blane Sing Martin And Blane, Harlequin 701 (Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane with Ralph Burns' Orchestra and The Martins) [reissued as CD/DRG 5168]
2. Hugh Sings Martin, CD/PS Classics PS-9535 (Hugh Martin)
3. That's How I Love The Blues: The Complete Recordings Vol. 2, CD/Baldwin Street Music BJH-315 (Bea Wain)
4. I Like To Sing!, CD/Audiophile ACD-186 (Marlene Ver Planck with Ben Aronov, piano, Jay Leonhart, bass, and Luther Rix, drums)


Unrecorded Material:

He Put The "Uh" In Mambo (written for the 1954 tv version)
I'd Gladly Trade
Wham (written for the 1951 production)
Where Do You Travel?