Song of the Open Road is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon, from a screenplay by Irving Phillips and Edward Verdier.

Although Fields often made fun of singers and singing in general, he had a fondness for the promising young singer Jane Powell and even referred to her (as "little Janie Powell") on one of his CBS radio broadcasts (preserved on transcription discs).

Powell sang several songs in the film and made such an impression that MGM signed her to a contract to make a number of musical comedies for them, through the mid-1950s.

[1] Location shooting was done in Palm Springs, California and at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Then, missing a catch, he drops the oranges and walks away muttering "used to be my racket, but it isn't anymore!"