Other Releases and Cover Versions
A rare promotional record (only 1000 were pressed, labelled "Omnimedia") for the advertising arm of Charles Fuller Productions included the removed lyrics "Hang on Sloopy". It is a two-sided 7" that plays at 33-1/3 RPM.
The song was featured as a cover version on a children's album of the same name in the early 1970s by The Peter Pan Pop Band & Singers.
In the Australian airplay version, the word "bloody" was censored.
In 1973, a group called The Hotshots reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart with their cover version of the song, performed in a ska style.
In the 1967, the Italian singer Giorgio Gaber recorded the Italian version of this song, "Snoopy contro il Barone Rosso".
Also in 1967, Brazilian singer Ronnie Von recorded a version, "Soneca Contra O Barão Vermelho", Snoopy then being known in Brazil as either Xereta ("snoopy" in Portuguese) or Soneca ("snooze") in local editions of the Schulz comic strip.
The song inspired the title of Kim Newman's novel The Bloody Red Baron (1995).
Read more about this topic: Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron (song)
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