Pop Culture
- David Byrne did a cover of this song in 1990 for a Cole Porter tribute album entitled Red Hot + Blue. Byrne performed what he describes as his "Brazilian" version of the song during his 2004 tour for the Grown Backwards album.
- Steve Goodman performed the song, including on his album The Easter Tapes recorded during one of his annual visits with New York radio personality Vin Scelsa.
- Lynn Anderson recorded the song for her album Cowboy's Sweetheart in 1992.
- Chumbawamba recorded a version of the song with lead vocals by Danbert Nobacon. A segment of the song featured on the unreleased album Jesus H. Christ that was later reworked to become Shhh! (1992), but "Don't Fence Me In" did not feature on the final album cut.
- The first verse of the song was sung by Apu in The Simpsons episode "The Lastest Gun in the West".
- The song was sung in the 1954 action movie "Hell and High Water" Starring Richard Widmark.
- The song was featured in the 1999 film The Bachelor, which follows a sworn bachelor who is reluctant to marry.
- The song was used in the opening credits of the 2000 film Chopper.
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's character Eddie Sakamura sings it at a karaoke bar in the opening scene of the 1993 film Rising Sun. It is also played while the end credits roll.
- Shortly after the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961, a communist-run East Berlin radio station called Ops used “Don’t Fence Me In” as the theme song for its nightly propaganda broadcast aimed at Allied soldiers based in West Berlin.
- Australian male voice choir The Spooky Men's Chorale have recorded this on their DVD album "Deep".
- Black Iris covered the song in a wildly popular Nokia commercial for the Nokia C7. Despite public response, the song was never released as a full-track mp3.
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