Cover Versions
- "Dancing Machine" was covered by Suburban Legends on their Japan-only EP, Dance Like Nobody's Watching: Tokyo Nights.
The song was most notably sampled by MC Hammer on his 1990 album Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em (for the song "Dancin' Machine"), again in 1990 by Vanilla Ice on the album To The Extreme, later on by Too $hort (featuring Bun B) on the song "Shout It Out", and more recently in 2008 by Q-tip on the album The Renaissance ("Move") and Yung Wun for his song "Tear It Up" on his album The Dirtiest Thirstiest (in which the sample was uncredited).
- An alternate longer version (4:25) appears on the I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters compilation released in 2009.
- A remix by Polow da Don was featured in a commercial for Svedka.
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