Connie Ward is a young woman who on the spur of the moment marries Bill Abbott, a trumpet player in Gene Morrison's swing band.

[3][failed verification] 'Orchestra Wives' was the second and final film made by famed band leader Glenn Miller, who disbanded his orchestra in September 1942 in order to enter the military.

A July 8, 1942, Variety news item reported that the song "At Last," composed by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren, had originally been recorded by Miller and his orchestra for the 1941 Twentieth Century-Fox film Sun Valley Serenade.

[6] The main production number is "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo", a companion piece to "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" from the first film, that features a folksy vocal and virtuoso tenor saxophone playing by Tex Beneke, backup singing by Marion Hutton with the Modernaires, and a spectacular song and dance sequence by the Nicholas Brothers, accompanied in the uncut version of the film by Dorothy Dandridge both singing and dancing.

[7] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times regarded the latter medley of orchestra, singing, and dancing, as "the best of the numbers”,[8] affirmed by its nomination for a Best Music, Original Song Academy Award.

"Boom Shot", an instrumental composed by Glenn Miller and Billy May for the movie, appears, first on the jukebox in the soda shop, then later when Ann Rutherford and Harry Morgan are shown dancing, but is uncredited on the soundtrack and film credits.