I recently got a hold of the multi-disk set "Warner Brothers Big Band, Jazz & Swing Short Subject Collection". It's made up of over 11 hours of Vitaphone musical shorts. Disk 1 is a bit different in style, as it consists mostly of the "Ramblin' Round Radio Row" shorts. These mostly star Jerry Wald. Wald apparently was famous for a newspaper column on radio programs and this was parlayed into him getting the chance to produce these shorts.
This film, like the rest in the series, come off like a variety show with slightly better production values. You get a chance to see the actor Buddy Rogers (who would soon become Mary Pickford's husband and was the star of the Oscar-winning film "Wings") and an enjoyable group called the Three Keys--three black-Americans who are all but forgotten today but who managed to be included in a production geared for white audiences (that was a bit of an achievement in 1933). Also, in a first for the series, there was a guy who sang song for and with kids. All in all, a lot better than the previous short in the series (that was dreadfully uninteresting) and worth a look today.
