Fred MacMurray has great ambitions for his big band that puts on a variety of specialty acts in addition to providing dance music. It is his ambition to play at the famous Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles that has a national radio broadcast. He sets out with the group (which includes his adopted son, Billy Lee) after winning a trailer in an advertising contest. Like Lucy, Ricky and the Mertzes heading from New York to L.A., the gang undergo some wacky adventures, which includes the surprise demolition of the trailer and the addition of a wacky untalented songwriter (Rufe Davis) who in a strange way is actually quite amusing. But the audition proves to be unsuccessful due to a mishap, leading to a finale where MacMurray must suddenly gather the scattered band back together for the big finale.
This is a movie musical of mixed amusement with some rather forgettable songs and forced comedy that sometimes provides groans. Harriett Hilliard (later Nelson) joins in on the adventures as Lee's tutor who ironically is also a talented band singer. Eve Arden and the diminutive Ben Blue play a married couple who perform an apache dance where Arden is the one leading, Blue getting smashed around as if he were a dance dummy. The highlight are the musical numbers provided by the Yacht Club Boys, the rest of them simply interrupting what little plot exists.
This is a movie musical of mixed amusement with some rather forgettable songs and forced comedy that sometimes provides groans. Harriett Hilliard (later Nelson) joins in on the adventures as Lee's tutor who ironically is also a talented band singer. Eve Arden and the diminutive Ben Blue play a married couple who perform an apache dance where Arden is the one leading, Blue getting smashed around as if he were a dance dummy. The highlight are the musical numbers provided by the Yacht Club Boys, the rest of them simply interrupting what little plot exists.