[4] Mangione re-recorded the tune (as a slow ballad, and with lyrics sung by Don Potter) for his 1982 album 70 Miles Young.

Ella Fitzgerald, who famously appeared in Memorex commercials during the 1970s, heard Mangione and musicians perform it, then it was played back for her.

The composition was heard frequently in King of the Hill, including a running gag in which Mangione (who often guest starred on the show as himself)[15] worked it into whatever he was playing.

The Friends episode The One with All the Haste begins and ends with scenes in which a neighbour across the alley from apartment 19 sings a song about the morningtime loudly to himself first thing in the morning, much to the annoyance of Rachel, but to the pleasure of Joey.

In The Big Bang Theory episode The Relaxation Integration, the song is briefly played by Sheldon Cooper in a dream.