Later in the movie, the tune is heard off stage in rehearsal as the director continues a discussion on camera about other matters.
Early popular recordings of this song were performed by Ted Lewis & His Band and by Hal Kemp & His Orchestra.
Dick Powell, who does not sing a note of "The Golddigger's Song" in the motion picture, recorded a version that also sold well.
The song also appears in the 1962 The Chapman Report, played by a calliope at an amusement park; in the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (the film is set in the Great Depression, they are in a theatre where the original Gold Diggers movie is showing, Bonnie is enjoying the song while Clyde is furiously reprimanding the getaway driver from a bank robbery gone bad); and as the car horn sound on Rodney Dangerfield's Rolls-Royce in the 1980 Caddyshack.
In the Simpsons episode "HOMR", the first two lines of the song are sung by a chorus in Homer's head during a scene when he thinks that he'll get rich by investing in the stock market.
An orchestral version of the song is used to denote a strong day on Wall Street in the podcast Marketplace.