[1] which features the only original film score by the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
[1] The song is sung early in the film by Margy the teenage daughter of the State Fair-bound Frake family, who is feeling the symptoms of spring fever.
"[4] Rodgers envisioned "It Might as Well Be Spring" as a cheery uptempo number, its being the decision of the musical director of State Fair, Alfred Newman, to present the song as a moody ballad.
In the 1962 remake of State Fair, in which Pamela Tiffin portrayed Margy, Anita Gordon provided the character's singing voice.
Reviewing State Fair's pre-Broadway engagement at the Golden Gate Theater, Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Examiner deemed the "wondrous" song "It Might as Well be Spring" to be "as achingly wistful a romantic reverie as has ever been penned".