The music-loving son of a Louisiana sharecropper uses his songs to graduate from college.

Jimmie Davis
as Jimmie Davis

Margaret Lindsay
as Alvern Adams

John Gallaudet
as Charlie Mitchell

Freddie Stewart
as Freddie Stewart

Dottye Brown
as Laura

Ralph Reed
as Jimmie Davis as a Boy

Russell Hicks
as Fred Astor

Lee 'Lasses' White
as Old Timer

John Harmon
as Steve

Tristram Coffin
as Tomlins