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Jeremy Bulloch, who played the youngest mechanic Edwin, played Boba Fett in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi."
In an interview, Melvyn Hayes, who played Cyril, revealed that he and Cliff Richard had to learn to drive London double-decker buses before going off to film in Greece. The instructors only taught them for around half and hour. With such little training it would have been hard enough to drive on British roads, but they had to drive round bends on the cliffs of Greece. Hayes also revealed that he and Cliff were terrified during those sequences.
Bruce Welch, one of the members of "The Shadows", revealed that the highly popular title song was composed in less than half an hour. He came up with the first line "We're all going on a summer holiday" while "The Shadows" drummer Brian Bennett came up with the line, "We're going where the sun shines brightly".
The song "Bachelor Boy" had been added to the movie at the last minute as the distributors felt that the movie was too short. However the original set had already been pulled down and it would have been too expensive to fly the cast and crew to a foreign location, so the bus was brought back to the studio, another background was hastily built and the "Bachelor Boy" routine was filmed with everyone dancing around it.
Because "Summer Holiday" was planned to widen Cliff's appeal to U.S. audiences, where he had only limited success, they would hire an American actress, to play his love interest. So Lauri Peters was cast on the strength of her Broadway performance in "The Sound of Music".
"Don: [very fast] You know I wouldn't be surprised / That gasket hood looks pulverized / The shock recoil is now reversed / At first you'd boil and then you'd burst / Compression seep will soon distend / The leak that leaks in your big end / The lousy coke has got a hitch around the choke adjustment switch / Your piston spout is dynamite / In cutting out the parking light / And, from its shake, your outside brake is needing a new drum! Don, Cyril, Steve, Edwin: [slower] In fact make no mistake, you've really had it chum!"
"Don, Cyril, Steve, Edwin: [singing] For as guys we're really qualified / There's no need to look terrified / For when you have tried, you will say "wide-eyed", we are just what the doctor specified / We are pleading please let us take you for a ride with us! / Ride with us! [short music break in which the car backfires leaving everyone with black faces] Don, Cyril, Steve, Edwin: Please let us take you for a ride!"
