Brodie e T.S. sono stati scaricati dalle loro rispettive ragazze. Decidono così di passare una giornata bighellonando in un centro commerciale dove, con l'aiuto di Jay e Silent Bob, due punk combinaguai, tenteranno di riconquistare le ex-ragazze.
Il giovane pianista Eddie Duchin fa carriera a New York. Si sposa con Marjorie, che poi muore dando alla luce il piccolo Peter. Serbando rancore al bambino per la morte della donna di cui era innamorato, Eddie lo affida agli zii e parte per l'Europa: cinque anni di tournée, poi il ritorno, poi la guerra. Infine, a casa: ha ritrovato l'affetto per il figlio, ma viene colpito da un male incurabile.
Il proprietario di un locale di Rio de Janeiro si è ridotto a mal partito perché la clientela ha progressivamente disertato il suo locale. Per rilanciare il ritrovo allestisce un varietà e lancia un nuovo ballo: la "carioca". Alcuni loschi individui tentano di boicottare l'impresa ma il fidanzato aviatore della figlia del padrone risolve la faccenda con una magnifica trovata.
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.
His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott.
In this MGM Miniature Musical, Harry Owens and his orchestra perform several song numbers.
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.
This musical short salutes bandleader B.A. Rolfe on his 40th anniversary in show business.
As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up, his commanding officer orders him to perform for the troops.
Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.
This one-reel musical short, part of the WB/Vitaphone Melody Master series, features the music of trumpet-player and orchestra leader Henry Busse and his Orchestra, playing their own arrangements of various popular songs of the time...or in the Warners' song library. Those include "Wang Wang Blues," "Hot Lips" and "Along the Santa Fe Trail."
A musical short subject in which band leader Freddie Rich conducts three musical numbers with his orchestra, with solos by Nan Wynn with the Three Symphonettes. In the midst of the radio broadcast on which the band is performing, a gangly guitarist named Joe Sodja interrupts and asks to perform.
In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs. For the complete list of songs, check the soundtrack listing.