This pleasant musical short from MGM features Cliff Edwards guest starring with Harry Owens who reached the height of his celebrated song writing career this particular year.
Owens was the conductor/director of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra on Waikiki in Honolulu. The hotel is still there and still catering to the many visiting celebrities who go to Hawaii. Owens wrote many popular Hawaiian style ballads.
Bing Crosby in fact recorded many of them and had this been done at Paramount he would have done the short instead of Cliff 'Ukelele Ike' Edwards. For that year one of Owens's songs was put in Bing's film Waikiki Wedding and Sweet Leilani won the Academy Award that year for Best Song.
Of course the Oscar ceremony which would have been held next year so the Oscar to be for Sweet Leilani wasn't mentioned. But the song from another studio's film was, a rarity indeed back then.
Cliff Edwards did introduce the Hawaiian Drinking Song which never got the popularity of Sweet Leilani. Still it was nice to put a face to the name of Harry Owens.