Sobre Las Olas - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the United States, Sobre las Olas has a cultural association with funfairs, and trapeze artists, as it was one of the tunes available for Wurlitzer's popular line of fairground organs.
• The music for Over the Waves was used for the song The Loveliest Night of the Year, which was sung by Ann Blyth in MGM's film The Great Caruso.
• The composition is featured in the film Stage Fright (1950).
• The song appears along with Entry of the Gladiators, as a medley, in the Circus tribe stages in Lemmings 2: The Tribes.
• This waltz is performed in the James Bond movie, Octopussy, in the scene in the Circus in Germany.
• On Sesame Street, Ernie often sang a song to this melody, called George Washington Bridge.
• The tune is featured in the RKO Radio Pictures feature When's Your Birthday? (1937) starring Joe E. Brown.
• In the 1946 Warner Brothers cartoon, Daffy Doodles, Daffy sings Sobre las Olas to the tune of "She was an acrobat's daughter..."
• Sobre las Olas can be heard in the score of Disney's 1944 film The Three Caballeros during "The Cold-Blooded Penguin" segment.
• The song has also been used in Popeye cartoons.
• An homage to this song appears as the bridge of The Dead Kennedys' track "Chemical Warfare," which appears on their 1980 album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.
• On Barney and Friends episode, "Classical Cleanup", Mr. Boyd plays this song on the piano while Baby Bop dances and accidentally makes a mess in the classroom.
• This is one of the songs featured in the video game Wii Music.
• The waltz is used as background music in Sega's 1980 arcade game Carnival (video game).
• An homage to this song appears in the bridge of the song "Drowning In Berlin" by the British new wave group The Mobiles at approximately 2:06