Kennedy in his famous rocking chair is parodied with his Russian counterpart Nikita Khrushchev rocking in a chair that squeaks loudly. A scene involving an unseen President John F. Golfer Arnold Palmer also makes a brief cameo, playing a crazy round of golf with Hope-a scene revisited in the film Spies Like Us where Hope makes a cameo appearance and plays golf through a tent. Laugh along with this breezy comedy as Bob. Hope's co-stars include Edie Adams and Anita Ekberg playing secret agents. Available on Paramount+, EPIX NOW, Philo, Prime Video, EPIX. Based on his false reputation as an "Africa Expert", he is recruited by the United States Government and NASA to locate a missing secret space probe before it can be located by hostile forces. Merriwether lives his false reputation as a great white hunter to the point of living in a Manhattan apartment furnished to look like an African safari lodge complete with sound effects records of African fauna. Recently the band reformed with Paul Revelli on drums, Pete Anderson on bass, Sleepy Hacienda on vibraphone, Ted O' Connell on guitar and Jeb Stewart on guitar and vocals.Bob Hope plays Matt Merriwether, a New York writer who has passed off his uncle's memoirs of explorations in Africa as his own. Then, after several successful solo albums, Ned moved to Hawaii. Meanwhile we went back into the studio and made "Bowlegged". We put ourselves out there once again and even got invited down to Austin to play the revered Continental Club for a three night stand. Eventually Revelli got busy playing better-paying gigs, so we re-formed again, this time with Ned Selfe on the digital pedal steel, and Hacienda back on the drums. Two years later we made another CD, entitled "Pigs in a Blanket", and, with manager Jean Greendyke at the helm, rode the wave all the way to the big stage at the Fillmore and the record company audition at Club Lingerie in LA. So, we moved Slee onto the marimba, Paul Revelli joined the band on drums, and we put ourselves out there. Before the album was even released Frank moved to Wisconsin, and, as we watched the album gain popularity, we wondered what the hell we were gonna do. When Jeb returned to Marin we went into the studio again and laid down several more tracks - enough to put out on vinyl - and, shortly before release, Frank saw this wacky Bob Hope movie - "Call Me Bwana" - and thus we changed the name and put out our first album, "Big Fat Fun". Then Jeb moved to Arizona for a couple of years, while Frank, Pete and Slee continued to write and record. Is Call Me Bwana (1963) streaming on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Peacock, or 50+ other streaming services Find out where you can buy, rent, or subscribe to a streaming service to watch it live or on-demand. Around 1983 we went into the studio and laid down several tracks, direct to two track. Frank, a multi-instrumentalist with fantastic pedal steel chops, and Jeb had been writing songs together for several years, so we pulled in Pete on bass and Hacienda on drums and started playing local clubs as "Jeb Stewart and the Crazy Beets". Bwana was formed when Frank Anderson and his brother Pete got together with Jeb Stewart and drummer Dave Casini (herinafter known as Sleepy Hacienda). Starring: Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries, Percy Herbert, Paul Carpenter. And though many years have passed, the Bwana sound is still completely one-of-a-kind – as “hyphen” as it ever was. We performed at the Fillmore, we we're invited to Austin to play the Continental Club, we made our own records, we got love letter from DJs from Steven's Point, WI to Mallorca. For about four years Call Me Bwana was a hot band on the SF club-circuit and college radio stations around the country - "Rodeo Girls", off our first album "Big Fat Fun", even went to number one at the Sonoma State University station, right above Sting and David Lindley. As Steve Solder so aptly wrote in BAM magazine around 1988, "file this one under hyphen music, as in rockabilly-TexMex-surf-ska-bubblegum-country-cajun-pop".
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