Two struggling song writers (George Cole and Terence Morgan) meet a struggling French singer (Mylene Nicole). They try and flog songs to and she auditions for Ted Heath, they sell nothing, but she gets a job after singing one of their songs. Meanwhile Cole, having been constantly told that his songs need a gimmick, comes up with the idea of playing songs backwards and passing them off as new pieces by an avant garde jazz musician. Morgan reluctantly goes along with the scam and the 'composition' become hugely popular, in an emperors new clothes way. Whilst this is happening Nicole is also making a name for herself as a big band singer. Can they keep up the scam and will Nicole catch on? Not the greatest film of it's type, but still a bright and breezy British musical in glorious technicolour, that documents a pre rock n roll Britain, obsessed by big bands and crooners.
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