In Popular Culture
The song was used prominently in the 1962 Italian movie The Easy Life.
The song was used in the movie The Blues Brothers (1980): when Jake and Elwood first encounter Murph and The Magictones, they are playing this song at the Holiday Inn.
In the Ivan Reitman film Stripes (1981), Bill Murray begins singing this to avoid being killed by mercenaries.
Rory Bremner parodied the song in the 2006 season of the Bremner, Bird and Fortune TV series, playing Gordon Brown and Tony Blair with the former asking when the then prime minister would be leaving office.
It was also used in 2008 in the Fiat Punto advertisements, mimicking the "Portuguese Job".
In the 2006 film Superman Returns, the theme is performed by The Drifters in the elevator scene when Clark Kent and Lois Lane are in the middle of several people reading about the Man of Steel's return in the Daily Planet.
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's movie The Merchant of Four Seasons a remake of this song plays a central role in the relationship between the two main characters.
Dewey performs a ribbon dance whilst singing the song to distract Lois in season 5 of Malcolm in the Middle .
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