Cover Versions
- Danish blues-rock singer Peter Thorup and pop-singer Anne Grete Rendtorff had great success with a version with Danish lyrics in 1984 callet Skibe uden Sejl (Ships without Sailcloth). The song was used as titletrack for the Danish tv-serie Måske i morgen (maybe tomorrow) shown on Danish national television DR.
- Swedish pop and country singer Kikki Danielsson covered the song on her 1983 album Singles Bar, with lyrics in Swedish by Ingela "Pling" Forsman as "Öar i ett hav" ("Islands in a sea").
- Canadian vocalist Leslie Feist recorded a version of this song with her friends the Constantines. It appeared as number 9 on the bonus disc in the Deluxe Edition of The Reminder.
- In the US television series The Office, Michael Scott performs a karaoke version of the song in the E-mail Surveillance episode. While waiting for someone to join him for the duet, Michael awkwardly finds himself singing the female part in falsetto until he is finally joined by the Jim Halpert character.
- It is the opening track of Barry Manilow's 2007 album The Greatest Songs of the Eighties, sung with Reba McEntire.
- My Morning Jacket covered Islands in the Stream in the encore of their August 12, 2011 concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The song featured Neko Case, who performed as the opening act earlier in the evening.
- The chorus of the Hip-Hop song Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are) is a re-working, with modified lyrics, of the chorus of "Islands in the stream".
- The song was covered by the characters Vanessa Jenkins (Ruth Jones) and Bryn West (Rob Brydon) on an episode of the UK television series Gavin & Stacey. It was reprised by the same characters in a 2009 Comic Relief sketch, which also featured Tom Jones.
- This song was covered in 1994 by Tomeu Penya and Adriana Ceballos in a theme called "Illes dins d'un riu" with lyrics in a Balearic dialect of catala.
- In 2012 Frankie and Tonicha Quinnell covered the song on Frankie's Debut Album "Imagine Me"
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