Shortly after arriving in the U.S. from Germany, Oskar Fischinger was contracted by Paramount Pictures to create an animated sequence (in Technicolor or Gasparcolor; sources differ) for this movie. The movie was scored to a jazz piece, "Radio Dynamics", by studio musician Ralph Rainger. Unfortunately, Paramount Pictures switched the production to black and white, and Fischinger's animation became a sequence within the film, showing consumer products emanating from a radio broadcasting tower, rather than pure abstract imagery. Fischinger later released his color version as Allegretto (1936).
Drummer Gene Krupa's debut in the Hollywood films.
One of over seven hundred Paramount Pictures productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
The song the Benny Goodman Band performs on the first broadcast of "The Platt Golf Ball Radio Show" is "Bugle Call Rag".
Gary Cooper is mentioned.