something to sing about be produce at grand national studio where james cagney be work while under a contract dispute with the brother warner . he do two film for this b studio and neither of which rank high in the cagney credit . one of the great loss to cinema be the fact that jimmy cagney do so few film that utilize his terrific dance ability . the two that come to mind immediately be yankee doodle dandy and footlight parade . two less film be the west point story and never steal anything small . cagney himself say he never use to watch anything but his musical in retirement . so why do he make so few of them . well this one be all wrong . the plot of something to sing about concern a hoofer who front for a band who discover and give a movie contract . there be the usual complication of a conniving studio bos and a conniving press agent play respectively and well by gene lockhart and william frawley . his contract call for a no marriage clause and so cagney and band girl singer lady evelyn daw marry in secret . then we get the complication of a publicity drive studio romance with screen lead lady mona barrie . i think you can figure where this be go . the most disappointing thing about something to sing about be the lack of dance number for cagney . he dance briefly at the beginning and the end of the film and nothing in the middle . evelyn daw have a nice singing voice and the charisma of a ham sandwich . she get the musical number such a they be . i be sure the movie go public be pay their ticket to see cagney dance . also in addition to give him some dance number a female dance partner would have be nice . he dance well with ruby keeler in footlight parade and with virginia mayo and doris day in the west point story . weren not ginger rogers and eleanor powell or ruby keeler available . no memorable song come out of this . and daw voice be waisted as well . she have a jeanette macdonald soprano voice which be so out of place with a swing band . no wonder cagney go run back to warner brother . but they should have give him some decent musical .