Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group, the Wigglers. College-finance-committee members Chris Noel, Gail Gilmore, Mikki Jameson and Brenda Benet uncover the scam and tear up the check, but the Wigglers play a Long Beach, California custom-car show in drag and win first prize. The Supremes do Come to the Beach Ball with Me and Surfer Boy; the Four Seasons sing their 1964 hit Dawn; the Hondells sing Brian Wilsons My Buddy Seat; the Righteous Brothers do Baby What You Want Me to Do; and the Walker Brothers cut loose with Doin the Jerk. Gary Kurtz of Star Wars fame was the assistant director.