Dominique - Cover Versions and Other Appearances

Cover Versions and Other Appearances

• Mary Ford recorded an English language version that was released in November 1963 by Calendar Records.
• Sampled by Australian band TISM in their 1998 track "I Might Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt" off their album www.tism.wanker.com.
• It was used in the 1990 film Mermaids with Cher.
• It was used in Lionel Soukaz's short film Ixe
• The Cuban artist La Lupe and Mexican artist Angélica María recorded Spanish language versions of this song.
• The Brazilian singer Giane recorded a Brazilian Portuguese version of this song.
• Spike Jones recorded a version in which he first gave it a jazz-like interpretation, with trumpet and banjo; then he melded it with "When the Saints Go Marching In", giving the song an entirely different sound.
• Sandler and Young revived the song in late 1966, a version that appeared on the Billboard easy listening chart. The performance was a medley including other religious-themed songs including "Deep River" and "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen".
• The song was referenced in The Simpsons episode "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" (1992), where Milhouse van Houten visits his girlfriend in an all-girls convent school. A nun playing guitar and singing "Dominique" passes along, followed by several equally happy little girls. The nun was voiced by cast member Maggie Roswell, who didn't know any of the song's French lyrics and instead made up her own.
• The musician Poe used a sample of the song in her album Haunted, on the track "House of Leaves".
• In the 1987 Married With Children episode, "Thinnergy", "Dominique" is one of several songs Peg sings in an attempt to annoy Al.
• Also, Debbie Reynolds starred in The Singing Nun movie, which has an English version of this song.
• In 2009, the song was used in the third series premiere of British teen drama Skins.
• In 2012, the song is featured prominently in US anthology series American Horror Story: Asylum, the events of which take place in 1964. The original Belgian French version of the song is playing over-and-over in the common room of the insane asylum, and the inmates are punished if they disrupt or stop the song from playing.