The music heard in the film is 'Ory's Creole Trombone', by Spike's Seven Pods of Pepper Orchestra. This band is none other than Kid Ory's Original Creole Jazz Band; the Pods of Pepper name was used for a couple of recordings on the fly-by-night Sunshine label in Los Angeles in 1922. In addition to being a lively and propulsive tune ideally suited to the gist of the picture, the cut also has historical cachet: it is the first jazz recording made by the music's black New Orleanian progenitors.