Of the 38 songs performed in this movie, 1 is an instrumental piece, 1 is a travel song, 2 are happy love songs, 2 are gospel songs, 4 are novelty songs, and 17 are about adultery. The remainder revolve around things like abandonment, depression, poverty, alcoholism, imprisonment, endless labour, general misery, and death (some of which also figure in many of the songs about adultery).
Doodles Weaver plays Colonel Feetlebaum. Weaver provided the vocal accompaniment to the humorous Spike Jones song "The William Tell Overture", in which he describes a horserace which is won by a horse "Beetlebohm". Additionally, Weaver provided a one page Mad Magazine article (#25, September1955), as Professor Feetlebaum.