Summer Holiday (1963 film)
Summer Holiday is a British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film featuring singer Cliff Richard. The film was directed by Peter Yates his debut, produced by Kenneth Harper. The original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass who also wrote most of the song numbers and lyrics. The cast includes Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Teddy Green, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, Pamela Hart, Jacqueline Daryl, Lionel Murton, Madge Ryan, David Kossoff, Nicholas Phipps, Ron Moody and The Shadows. Herbert Ross choreographed the musical numbers. The film had its World Premiere at the Warner Theatre in Londons West End onJanuary 1963.
There aresong and musical numbers in the film Seven Days to a Holiday, Let Us Take You for a Ride, Stranger in Town, Swinging Affair, Really Waltzing, Yugoslavian Wedding, All At Once, Summer Holiday, Bachelor Boy, Dancing Shoes, Foot Tapper, Big News, The Next Time, Les Girls, Round and Round and Orlandos Mime.The films producers felt that female lead in the film, Lauri Peters, was not a strong enough singer after several test recording sessions and all of her parts, both in the film and on the soundtrack album were dubbed by session vocalist Grazina Frame. Frame had overdubbed female singing voices in Cliff Richards earlier film The Young Ones. ........
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