The Young Americans singing group go on a bus tour to win a trip to Europe against other high-school groups. There's lots of old-fashioned songs sung throughout this road picture, and that's the point of the whole thing. Curiously, it won the Oscar for Best Documentary of 1968. Then they found out it played in 1967 and took it back.
It's pretty good for the style of music, but it's far more polished than the rockumentaries that were coming into fashion, and the air of unreality about it makes it seem a bit off. With Vicki Lawrence as Vicki Lawrence; she certainly resembles herself.
It's pretty good for the style of music, but it's far more polished than the rockumentaries that were coming into fashion, and the air of unreality about it makes it seem a bit off. With Vicki Lawrence as Vicki Lawrence; she certainly resembles herself.