Cover Versions
The King Harvest version is often wrongly primarily attributed to Van Morrison, Elvis Costello or "Kink Harris", due to incorrect labeling on various digital download services. Neither Morrison nor Costello has actually recorded a version of "Dancing in the Moonlight", and "Kink Harris" does not exist. The original recording of the song is also sometimes misattributed to Toploader, who released a cover of the song in 2000 that reached the Top Ten in the UK Singles Chart, higher than any previous version. The Toploader cover has also been used in the films A Walk to Remember and Four Lions.) A musical number of the song is featured in Richard Wenk's comedic short, Dracula Bites the Big Apple.
- High Broom released a single of the song in the UK on Island Records (WIP 6088) in August 1970
- Young Generation on a 1973 single
- Liza Minnelli on her 1973 album The Singer
- Joe "Bean" Esposito on his 1996 album Treated and Released
- Baha Men on 1994's Kalik
- Masters of the Obvious
- The Keane Brothers — who created a disco version in 1979
- Toploader on their 1999 Onka's Big Moka album
- Aswad on their 2002 album Cool Summer Reggae
- Orleans
- My Morning Jacket
- Jack Wagner
- Ted Raimi (in the Xena: Warrior Princess musical episode, Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire)
- Alyson Stoner
- Jamiroquai
- Jumping Jacks (named "Jumping in the Moonlight")
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