Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

In The Goon Show, it was often used as the closing theme tune, and was played live onstage by the Wally Stott Orchestra.

Its composer Harold Arlen recorded a duet of it with Barbra Streisand for his 1966 Columbia Records album, Harold Sings Arlen (with a Friend) Columbia included the duet on Streisand's 2002 CD, Duets.

Ella Fitzgerald sang it on her 1961 album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook, and Sammy Davis, Jr. sang it live with Buddy Rich on The Sounds of '66.

In 1967, The Fifth Estate charted their biggest hit with a cover of the song interpolating the bourée from Michael Praetorius's Terpsichore. For over forty years, it has been the highest charting version of all time of any Harold Arlen or Wizard of Oz song by any artist since the modern chart era began in 1940.

Klaus Nomi performed a cover which was released as a single in 1982.

The British band Hefner ends their song "The Day That Thatcher Dies" with children singing "Ding Dong, the witch is dead" in reference to former British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.

It was also briefly parodied in the Lizzie McGuire episode "The Rise and Fall of Kate" by Miranda Sanchez and Gordo, as a method of celebrating fellow student Kate Sanders' fall from power.

In the season 3 premiere of the Fox TV series Glee, cast members Lea Michele and Chris Colfer sing a duet version, identical to the one performed by Barbra Streisand and Harold Arlen in 1966.