My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the Disney short The Karnival Kid, as Mickey Mouse Says his first words "Hot Dog!" he also sings them in the tune of this song.
• The Fleischer brothers filmed this song in DeForest Phonofilm, part of their Song Car-Tunes series, released 15 September 1925, and notable as the first film to use the ‘follow the bouncing ball’ technique.
• In The Beach Nut (October 16th, 1944), while surfing, Woody Woodpecker sings "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean", albeit somewhat off-key.
• My Bunny Lies Over The Sea, a short ‘Bugs Bunny’ cartoon film whose title parodies the song, was released by Warner Brothers in 1948.
• In the Abbott and Costello film The Naughty Nineties (June 20, 1945), Costello auditions for Captain Sam's riverboat show by singing "My Bonnie". Behind him, Abbott shouts directions to the stage crew in setting up a backdrop curtain ("Move it to the left", "Lower", "Higher", "Lift up the right leg", etc.) Oblivious to this, Costello thinks Abbott is directing him and follows his every command, moving to the left, singing higher, lower, and so forth.
• The song plays a prominent role in the I Love Lucy episode "The Quiz Show" (first aired November 12, 1951).
• Duane Eddy hit the US Top 30 and UK Top 15 in 1960 with an instrumental rock and roll version titled "Bonnie Came Back"
• A version of the song entitled just ‘My Bonnie’ was arranged and recorded during 1961 by Tony Sheridan with musical backing by The Beatles (at a time before they became famous and who were credited on the recording as the ‘Beat Brothers’).
• On December 20, 2011, JibJab released a video about the year 2011 in review with a song called "2011, Buh-Bye", to the tune of the title song.
• Laura Wright recorded a version, featured on her album The Last Rose (2011)
• In 2004, American power pop band Hellogoodbye released their debut EP which included a version of the song, entitled "Bonnie Taylor Shakedown."