Jeepers Creepers (song) - Popular Culture

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  • This song is featured in a 1939 Warner Bros. cartoon short of the same name.
  • In the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy, "Jeepers Creepers" is sung by a group of kids who pass by the house of George M. Cohan (played by James Cagney).
  • The 1957 cartoon short Show Biz Bugs has Daffy Duck performing a tap-dance number to the song.
  • In the 1975 movie The Day of the Locust, the character Faye Greener (Karen Black) sings the song whenever she wants to disturb her father. Louis Armstrong's recording of the song plays over the film's closing credits.
  • In 1988, "Peek-a-Boo", the first single from Siouxsie and the Banshees's ninth studio album Peepshow, was found to be too similar to the lyrics of "Jeepers Creepers". To remedy the situation and to avoid legal action, Siouxsie and the Banshees gave co-songwriting credit on "Peek-a-Boo" to Warren and Mercer.
  • In 1998, the song was briefly sung in an episode of the television series The X-Files entitled "Triangle".
  • Also in 1998 the song was featured in an episode of Friends called "The One with the Dirty Girl."
  • The song and title was featured prominently in the 2001 horror movie Jeepers Creepers when The Creeper is nearby (it is released by United Artists, which at one point held the rights to Going Places).
  • A recording of the song was made by The Puppini Sisters on their 2006 debut album Betcha Bottom Dollar.
  • The Hi-Lo's included the song on their 2006 A Musical Thrill album.

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