<P> The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth - making Hollywood accounts of the American West , with the hero being a black sheriff in an all - white town . The film is full of deliberate anachronisms , from the Count Basie Orchestra playing `` April in Paris '' in the Wild West , to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports , to the German army of World War II . </P>
<P> The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth - making Hollywood accounts of the American West , with the hero being a black sheriff in an all - white town . The film is full of deliberate anachronisms , from the Count Basie Orchestra playing `` April in Paris '' in the Wild West , to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports , to the German army of World War II . </P>
what song did count basie play in blazing saddles
what song did count basie play in blazing saddles
`` April in Paris ''
`` April in Paris ''