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Artists

Over the years, the song has been played and recorded by many artists, including:

  • The Delta Rhythm Boys
  • Deep River Boys Featuring Harry Douglas with Pete Brown's Orchestra (Recorded in Oslo on August 23, 1956 and released on the 78 rpm record HMV AL 6019)
  • Fats Waller
  • The Four Lads, used as an integral part of "Fall Out," the final episode of British ITC spy series The Prisoner. It is performed on screen in one scene and heard on a car radio in another.
  • Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians (Recorded on 30 April 1947 and released on the 78 rpm record Decca 23948), used in the 1986 BBC television serial, The Singing Detective.
  • The Lennon Sisters
  • Mills Brothers
  • Shirley Caesar
  • Rosemary Clooney
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks (in the 1999 direct-to-video film Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein)
  • Fred Gwynne (In-character as Herman Munster in one episode of the television series The Munsters.)
  • The Kingsmen
  • The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
  • The Wiggles
  • Peter O'Toole sings the song in the 1972 film, The Ruling Class as a call-to-arms to the upper-classes to "bring back fear" by means of the breaking wheel.
  • Die Campbells (No English-language article available. Afrikaans-language biography here: af:Die Campbells Comedy version, with parody lyrics sung in Afrikaans (available on YouTube).

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