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."
Direction
Negulesco's shadow play adds unexpected visual flair.
Production
Vitaphone tech capturing a fading entertainment era.
Director
Jean Negulesco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Henry Busse actually co-wrote 'Hot Lips' in 1922, so this is basically him playing his own hit two decades later. The ultimate cover band situation.
These Vitaphone shorts were basically TikToks for Depression-era audiences—quick, cheap, disposable entertainment before the main feature. Busse's obscurity now proves they worked too well.
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