In Three-Quarter Time; The Lorelei*; Pardon My English; Dancing in the Streets; So What?*; Isn't It a Pity?*; My Cousin in Milwaukee*; Hail the Happy Couple (or, Bride and Groom); The Dresden Northwest Mounted; Luckiest Man in the World*; What Sort of Wedding Is This? (Finale, Act I); Tonight (also includes thematic material for Two Waltzes in C,* under which title it was published in 1971 as a piano solo); Where You Go, I Go*; I've Got to Be There*; He's Not Himself; Dropped before New York: Freud and Jung and Adler (used in 1987 revival at the Library of Congress); He's Oversexed (also used in 1987 performance); Watch Your Head; Together at Last; Luckiest Boy in the World; No Tickee, No Washee; Poor Michael! Poor Golo!; Fatherland, Mother of the Band

The world premiere and out-of-town tryout took place December 2nd, 1932, in Philadelphia, with the New York premiere on January 20, 1933. The show closed in New York after only forty-six performances.

As noted above, Pardon My English was premiered in two versions; they are quite different from one another. The version outlined here is of the New York production which was a disaster when it opened there. However, in 1987, New York Times critic Stephen Holden refers positively to the musical score as being "typical early-30s Gershwin-propulsively jazzy, with many deft satirical flourishes."

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