Jones released the track as a single in 1979 as "Love Boat Theme", with a cover of the Barry Manilow song "Ready to Take a Chance Again" on side B.

Jack Jones lip-syncs the song in Airplane II, appearing in a cameo as a lounge singer as Ted escapes from the hospital.

On the "Singing the Blues" episode of Living Single, a singer performs the song during amateur night at a restaurant the friends are visiting.

In the film Demolition Man, the song was played by Sandra Bullock as a romantic background music in her apartment before the "virtual sex" between her and Sylvester Stallone.

[5] In the film Summer Rental, Rip Torn's character Scully sings the song, describing it is as "an old sea ditty me mother taught me".