None of the songs performed in the film are listed in the on-screen credits. In addition to the songs Louis Armstrong performed in the film, he recorded another song, "It's a Most Unusual Day," by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, but it was cut. That outtake, several songs from this film, plus songs from other Louis Armstrong M-G-M films, were included on a CD anthology entitled "Now You Has Jazz: Louis Armstrong at M-G-M," released in 1997 by Rhino Records.
This film lost $621,000 for MGM in 1952 ($6.9M in 2022 dollars) according to studio records. It brought in less than half of what it cost to produce, distribute and promote.
Ironically, the non-musical Glory Alley (1952) marked the heaviest on-screen singing role for Leslie Caron. Her club act vocals, rendered largely in French, illustrate that she was indeed able to sing professionally in her native tongue, as French music historically requires less vibrato and pitch than does English. In her musicals, Caron was rarely called upon to sing. She made history in "An American in Paris" (1951) as the first and last leading lady in a major Hollywood musical to not sing a note. She sang only song (plus a single line of "Something's Gotta Give") in "Daddy Long Legs" (1955) and was dubbed entirely in "Gigi" (1958), though at least part of her vocal for "The Parisians" surely could have been salvaged. The irony is that Caron, of all people, emerged with a hit single in the immortal "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" from "Lili" (1953).
In the opening credits, Louis Armstrong's credit reads: "Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong and His Trumpet."