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Every Day's a Holiday (known to American audiences as Seaside Swingers) is an insufferably sunny, corny romp that will put guilty smiles on the faces of anyone who loves the Merseybeat sound. While the bulk of the music is vocal and interweaved with the plot, a number of full-band performances from the Mojos and Freddie and the Dreamers (doing "The Freddie," no less) offers the rare chance to watch some nearly forgotten British Invasion groups at the peak of their brief popularity. But there's far more pop than rock on display, as the teenage leads sing sticky ballads and smarmy show tunes, stumbling through outlandish choreography with various levels of proficiency. Every Day's a Holiday is breezy, goofy fun without a brain in its head, and should inspire a nostalgic mood in any viewer who can overlook some very dated prejudices; there is a brief blackface routine within the first five minutes, and, in two separate songs, Christina is said to be "not too smart" (or at least, "not as smart as men"). Still, much of the comedy is sharp and the entire exercise is energetic and quintessential British, with Cockney slang abounding and what appears to be vintage footage of an actual holiday camp in 1965. Michael Ripper -- who plays Gerry's father as a faded music hall star with a few more soft-shoes left in him -- was best known for his work in Hammer studios horror pictures (he appeared in The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb the same year). John Leyton had some British pop chart success in the early '60s working with legendary superproducer Joe Meek, and Mike Sarne went on to direct the bizarre big-budget gender-bender Myra Breckenridge. Director James H. Hill returned the following year with the deathless family classic Born Free.