Newton High music teacher Malvina Adams (Risdon) is asked to retire since attendance in her classes keeps dropping each year.

Trying to prove she's still got it, Adams composes a school fight song which finds its way into the hands of bandleader Bob Crosby (playing himself) who turns it into an overnight hit.

After working on the screenplay for almost ten nonconsecutive weeks, West had turned it into Let's Make Music, which hoped to benefit from Bob Crosby's popularity.

[1] The reviewer from The New York Times commented that, "no doubt worse movies have been made," but was at a loss to name any.

The Film Daily critic called it, "a picture for all situations, ages, and types, although it is conceivable that some inflexible devotees of classical music may be holdouts, and term it esthetically 'gross.'