Covers
- "Surfin' Bird" was instrumentally covered by The Centurions on their 1963 album Surfers' Pajama Party.
- "Surfin' Bird" was covered by the Ramones on their 1977 album Rocket to Russia.
- "Surfin' Bird" was also covered by The Cramps on their 1978 debut single on Vengeance Records; it also appeared on their 1979 album Gravest Hits and on their 1983 compilation album Off the Bone.
- "Surfin' Bird" was covered by the Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo on the maxi single "The Bird" in 1993.
- Sodom covered the song on their 2001 album M-16.
- Pee Wee Herman covered the song on the soundtrack of the film Back to the Beach.
- Silverchair covered the song on their 1997 single The Door.
- Orbital sampled heavily from the original version on "Tension" from their 2001 album The Altogether.
- The song "Motherfucker" by the Dwarves is loosely based on "Surfin' Bird".
- In late 2012 the grunge band 2 Fantastic announced their anticipated release of a cover called "Jez is the Chez."
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