[3] "Tar Paper Stomp" featured a riff that was used for "In the Mood" by Joe Garland, most prominently recorded by Glenn Miller in 1939.

The main theme of "In the Mood", featuring repeated arpeggios rhythmically displaced, previously appeared in "Tar Paper Stomp".

[6] A song entitled "Hot String Beans" released by Joe Marsala on Vocalion in 1938 also featured the riff from "Tar Paper Stomp".

Wingy Manone recorded a new song entitled "Jumpy Nerves" on April 26, 1939, featuring Chu Berry on tenor saxophone that incorporated the riff from "Tar Paper Stomp" which was released as a 78 single that year on RCA Bluebird.

The instrumental has been covered by Tom Baker's Chicago Seven and Friends on the 2004 collection Dixieland Jazz on Riff Raff, Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band in 1994 on the album Live at Hambone Kelly's, Volume 2, Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband on Live in Dresden in 1972 on Miga, the Christiania Jazzband in 1973 on Sonet Records, and by Mora's Modern Rhythmists on the 2000 album Call of the Freak on Mr.