Indian Love Call - Other Versions

Other Versions

• In 1938, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra released a version of "Indian Love Call," but it was the B-side – a version of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" – that rocketed Artie Shaw into celebrity.
• In 1939, the whistler Fred Lowery released a version that sold over 2 million copies.
• In 1951, Chet Atkins released a version of "Indian Love Call" as a single, which was then included on various albums, including Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins and The Best of Chet Atkins.
• In 1952, yodeling cowboy singer Slim Whitman released a version of "Indian Love Call" as his second single. The song peaked at number two on the country charts, crossing over into the pop music Top Ten, and made Whitman a star. It was also Top Ten in the UK in 1955.
• Mars Attacks!, a 1996 comedy science fiction movie by Tim Burton, parodies the ending of The War of the Worlds by making Whitman's version of "Indian Love Call" the mortal weakness of a host of invading space aliens. In Burton's film, the heads of the hostile invaders explode upon hearing Whitman's version of "Indian Love Call."
• At one of Mary Martin's first auditions in Hollywood, she announced her intention to sing "in my soprano voice, a song you probably don’t know, 'Indian Love Call.'" After singing the song, "a tall, craggly man who looked like a mountain" told Martin that he thought she had something special and told her, "Oh, and by the way, I know that song. I wrote it." The man was Oscar Hammerstein and the event marked the start of her career.
• Spike Jones performed a characteristically zany interpretation of this song on The Spike Jones Show.
• In 1962, Karl Denver's single of this song reached No. 32 on the charts in the United Kingdom.
• In 1963, Anna Moffo and Sergio Franchi recorded this song in their popular RCA Red Seal album The Dream Duet.
• Soul singer Gloria Lynne released a version of this song in 1964 as a B-side to "I Should Care."
• Between 1972 and 1974, this song was covered by Singapore-based female singer Ervinna, backing music by The Charlie & His Boys, on her LP album Golden Hits Of 20th Century Vol. 4 with the local White Cloud Record.
• Country singer Ray Stevens, known primarily for novelty music, released a version of "Indian Love Call" in 1975, reaching No. 38 on the U.S. country charts with it. The song was part of an album of covers of pop music standards.
• In the 1976–1977 first season of the Muppet Show, the muppets Wayne and Wanda performed a short (0:32) duet of this song.
• Sara Davis Buechner included this song on her CD Rudolf Friml Piano Works.
• When Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie performed this song as an opening number at a Valentine's Day 2009 performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Washington Post described how "Mazzie trilled 'Indian Love Call' from the stage, Danieley crooned in return, traipsing down the Terrace Theater aisle as if struck by Cupid's arrow."
• The first verse to this song is sung by an offscreen narrator in Nickelodeon's 1995 television special, "Oh, Brother" featuring Stick Stickly who seeks for his twin brother in New York City.
• Brendan Fraser and Sarah Jessica Parker performed a version of the song in the 1999 film Dudley Do-Right.