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'Red' Allen and his side men perform the title song in this late soundie.

Soundies were short films, about three minutes in length. The were meant to be played on a machine called a Mills Panoram, a video jukebox that was typically to be found in bars, lounges, and similar venues. You put a dime in and got a performance from the ten on the machine. The movies would be changed weekly, and from 1940 through 1946, Mills and other companies produced more than two thousand soundies.

There wasn't much money in soundies. Estimates are that Allen was paid $210 for the soundtrack in this soundie, and he and his five players got a total of perhaps $300 for this and four other soundies they made at the same time.