The background art was meticulously and colorfully rendered, as befitted animation's golden age. Among the desert plants seen are Saguaro and barrel cacti, yuccas, and the Joshua tree.
WW2 had just ended, so Red the entertainer transitioned from wartime worker (in Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)) to full time cabaret singer. Both shorts were released just after the cessation of hostilities; however, the earlier cartoon likely was in production during the last days of the war.
After outlaw Joe Wolf kidnaps Red and leaves the bar, as the posse starts its pursuit of Joe to rescue the cute victim, the announcer mentions Gallant Fox, as one of the horses in a race. Gallant Fox won the Triple Crown in 1930: the Preakness on Friday, May 9; the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 17; and the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 7. Gallant Fox was the second winner of horse racing's Triple Crown after Sir Barton won it in 1919. There had been four other Triple Crown-winning horses between Gallant Fox and the debut of this short: Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), and Count Fleet (1943). Assault would win the Triple Crown in the Spring after this cartoon's release.
One of the stores in the background is named "General Merchandise", and underneath reads Claude Smith, Proprietor. Claude Smith is the cartoon's layout artist.
When the villain holds up the ice cream wagon (Good Rumor is a pun on Good Humor, the ice cream truck company.), both the character and his horse ask for ice cream. Tutti frutti and neapolitan were two popular flavors of the era.
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