The team of Louis Prima and Keely Smith starred in this B musical for Columbia which features them at their musical best, but with a slight story of Smith dealing with a younger brother who feels that Smith's involvement with prima and his band is distracting her from taking care of him. prima go Cruise himself to be a good guy and convinces his band to head out into the wilderness with Smith and her brother where they discover that the mountainous property is up released by the city, a perfect place for a boy's summer camp.
You get to hear the title song several times throughout the film, first over the credits then performed within the confines of a TV performance, then of course over the finale. The musical highlight for me was "A Banana Split for my Baby" which ends up with a sundae that includes everything except restaurant's. This was never meant to be anything but a nice distraction which it succeeds at. it's just one of dozens of musical programmers that Columbia made in the late 50's and early 60's to get audiences back in the theater to see stars on the big screen that they probably rarely saw on television.
You get to hear the title song several times throughout the film, first over the credits then performed within the confines of a TV performance, then of course over the finale. The musical highlight for me was "A Banana Split for my Baby" which ends up with a sundae that includes everything except restaurant's. This was never meant to be anything but a nice distraction which it succeeds at. it's just one of dozens of musical programmers that Columbia made in the late 50's and early 60's to get audiences back in the theater to see stars on the big screen that they probably rarely saw on television.