Jolson was often given credits on sheet music so he could earn more by popularizing the tunes, but he played no part in writing this song.
The song was performed by Rip Taylor and Christopher Knight in the final episode of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.
The song is parodied in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episode, "Me and My Shadow Demon", in which the main characters, Scooby and Shaggy, fool a crowd of monsters with a musical number.
The song is performed by Pardon-Me-Pete the Groundhog (voiced by Buddy Hackett) in the 1979 Rankin/Bass television special Jack Frost.
The song is also performed in the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter by Gabe Kaplan and the actors playing the sweathogs: Ron Palillo, Robert Hegyes, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and John Travolta.
[8] On the October 21, 2020 episode of AEW Dynamite, the song was performed by All Elite Wrestling's Chris Jericho and MJF during their "Le Dinner Debonair" segment, with modified lyrics.