Popular Culture
Oldsmobile Division of General Motors used the song, with altered lyrics, for several decades as a marketing jingle.
"In My Merry Oldsmobile" was often used by Carl Stalling, long-time music director for Warner Bros. cartoons, especially when references to automobiles or driving were made.
"In My Merry Oldsmobile" is one of the songs played on Main Street USA in Disneyland and the Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom
It was also sung in an episode of M*A*S*H by Hawkeye Pierce (played by Alan Alda) while driving a Jeep in Korea.
"In My Merry Oldsmobile" is one of the songs sung by the Bonzi Buddy application.
In the song "Lord, Mr. Ford" on the 1979 album "Matchbox" by British rockabilly band Matchbox, they cover Jerry Reed's 1973 original, and the line "Come away with me, Lucille" is repeated several times, with the addition, at the end of the song, of the line "In my smoking choking automobile."
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