Acuff-Rose Music, which owned the song publishing, and BMI (the brothers' rights society) removed Phil's name from all the royalty statements.

Liberty later selected its own track listing, which did not include "Cathy's Clown", and released it shortly after Jan Berry's crash near Deadman's Curve.

Jan & Dean's cover of "Cathy's Clown" is available on the "Filet Of Soul Redux: The Rejected Master Recordings" release.

The song was recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire in April 1989 as the lead single from her fifteenth studio album Sweet Sixteen.

Also in 1960, the song was adapted into French by Georges Aber and Pierre Delanoë as "Le p'tit clown de ton cœur"[17] (meaning "The Little Clown of your heart"), and was recorded by French rock and roll singer Johnny Hallyday and was released as the lead single off of Hallyday's second studio album Nous les gars, nous les filles ("Us guys, us girls") that November, which was released two months later.

[19] The song was covered by Bill and Boyd in New Zealand; their version reached number 1 on the Lever Hit Parades chart in that country in July 1960.