Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)

[dubious – discuss] Donegan's version of the song was recorded live at the New Theatre Oxford in December 1958,[4] and was released both as a single and as a track on the album King of Skiffle.

[6] Since Donegan's version was released, it has appeared as a Smarties jingle, a performance on The Muppet Show, and re-worked into Czech by Jiří Grossmann.

[9] In Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the character Randle Patrick McMurphy also sings a few lines of this song when he realizes the Chief is storing used gum under his bed.

It was also alluded to in the lyrics of "Ahab the Arab" by Ray Stevens, and the Buchanan and Goodman 1961 novelty number, "Berlin Top Ten".

[10] A Swedish cover "En sak, som man ibland kan ligga vaken en hel natt och fundera på" ("Thoughts You Lie Awake Thinking All Night") was used in a variety 1968 named Lådan ("The box") by Hasse & Tage Billboard Hot 100[11] (11 weeks, entered August 7, 1961): Reached #5 Cashbox[12] (13 weeks, entered August 5, 1961): 100, 88, 35, 24, 11, 7, 6, 6, 11, 27, 53, 56, 64