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- Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie) from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues. Prior to the making of the film, RKO held a contest for the readers of 'The Saturday Evening Post" to vote on the musicians to make up the All-American Dance Band featured in the film; the magazine's readers chose, in the above-the-title listing: Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Jack Jenney. Gene Krupa, Alvino Rey, Joe Venuti, and singer Connee Boswell.
- At a parish meeting Åsa-Nisse suggests that they should hire a common home help, who could give their wives some relief by staying one week at each household. The meeting assents and decides that the order of her rotation should be established by lot. The two bachelors of the village claim their right to the home help as well, arguing that they are also taxpayers. When Elsa Haglund arrives from Gothenburg she starts her first week of work at one of the two bachelors, the village shop-keeper Sjökvist. He is immediately infatuated by her and begins a flirtation. At the end of the week Elsa happens to meet the other bachelor, Eric Broo, called "the singing farmer". She falls in love with him, but doesn't know how to hook him, as he is very shy and unskilled in courting women. In the meantime Åsa-Nisse, the village rogue, carries out some of his pranks.
- Ninni is a girl who is paralyzed from the waist down. Her mother dies and she is taken care of by a friend of the family. The story spins around the life of her and her two dreams. To be able to walk one day and to leave the city and go out into the country and see all the flowers. She is trapped in the heart of Stockholm and cant get out of the city because the lack of funding.
- Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.
- Åsa-Nisse and Eulalia have decided to accommodate summer guests. Mrs. Niklasson and her adult daughter Elsa arrive by train from Stockholm. The village shop-keeper Sjökvist is immediately infatuated with Elsa, and starts courting her. Sjökvist has invited all villagers to a big party, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his village shop. He and Elsa decide to announce their engagement at this occasion. In the meantime Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn go to a fun-fair in Växjö, where Åsa-Nisse wins a lot of silver pots at a shooting-booth. Back home they convert the pots into money by selling them to other villagers. Some of the money they use to buy fireworks for Sjökvist's party. When Sjökvist starts speaking, the fireworks go off, making it hard to hear his speech. And just before he's going to announce his engagement with Elsa, some of the fireworks happen to set the whole building on fire. The guests run away, and Mrs. Niklasson decides to leave the village immediately and go back to Stockholm with Elsa.
- Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are hunting enthusiasts. This includes illicit hunting, but the new police officer Klöverhage keeps a sharp eye on them. When Åsa-Nisse happens to get caught with his foot in his own fox trap, Klöverhage steps in and brings him before the court in Jönköping. Leaving the court Åsa-Nisse convinces his companions Klabbarparn and Jönson to take the opportunity to have a merry evening in town, before returning to the countryside. They go to the dance restaurant Alphyddan, where they find two young women, Greta and Astrid, who Åsa-Nisse invites to dinner. He pays the bill for all of them, and they eat, drink and dance. After the spree Åsa-Nisse and his friends don't know how to go home, but the two young women lend their bikes to them. Some days later Greta and Astrid go by bus to Knohult to get their bikes back. Åsa-Nisse has hard to explain for his wife Eulalia, what kind of relationship he has to the two young women.
