[3] George Cannata, Shamus Culhane,[4] Al Eugster,[5] William Henning, Seymour Kneitel and Grim Natwick also worked on it, but are uncredited in the title card.

[7] Animator Culhane states in his memoirs that though he created and animated what might be construed a Stereotyped caricature of "a Jew with a black beard, huge nose, and a derby", the studio's atmosphere and its mixed ethnic crew made the depiction completely acceptable to all the Jews in the studio.

[9] Motion Picture News wrote on October 11, 1930, that "the clever cartoon pen of Max Fleischer again demonstrates itself in this Talkartoon.

[7][11] In 2012 Cracked hosted an article describing "5 Old Children's Cartoons Way Darker Than Most Horror Movies" and listed Swing You Sinners!

[12] In 2014, LA-based indie band Caught A Ghost released a music video to their track "Time Go" which consisted entirely of footage from Swing You Sinners!.

[14] Kill Screen described Fleischer Studios as having "transportive, transformative short films, such as Swing You Sinners!.

Additionally, boss Cagney Carnation's idle animation resembles the hand dance done by one of the ghosts in the cartoon.