The Scrooge like Carlton Macy finds his convienance store business threatened when card store owner Lita Grey Chaplin comes up with the idea of musical greeting cards, and later chocolate greeting cards that literally puts the music in her customer's soul. This isn't really all that notable except the presence of the young Sammy Davis Jr. as a young customer who wants a copy of "St. Louis Blues".
Some of the songs are newly filmed versions of hits from Warner Brother's 1933 edition of the "Gold Diggers" series, but other segments are extremely dated in their corniness, particularly a hillbilly number that is filled with stereotypical instruments like jugs and spoons. Gray doesn't have the greatest singing voice show her attempt to be the next Helen Morgan in her warbling of a few torch songs isn't all that appealing, and Davis, dressed in a "piccaninny" outfit, only pops up in the last few minutes for a segment that is stereotypical and disappointing. Still historically, it's interesting to see him as a child but it would have been nice to see him get a full production number or something that showed off the talents that America would come to love decades later.
Some of the songs are newly filmed versions of hits from Warner Brother's 1933 edition of the "Gold Diggers" series, but other segments are extremely dated in their corniness, particularly a hillbilly number that is filled with stereotypical instruments like jugs and spoons. Gray doesn't have the greatest singing voice show her attempt to be the next Helen Morgan in her warbling of a few torch songs isn't all that appealing, and Davis, dressed in a "piccaninny" outfit, only pops up in the last few minutes for a segment that is stereotypical and disappointing. Still historically, it's interesting to see him as a child but it would have been nice to see him get a full production number or something that showed off the talents that America would come to love decades later.