(Maria von Trapp, however, found the yodeling in the motion picture version of The Sound of Music rendition to be lacking in authenticity.
The original 1959 musical has this as the song Maria (played by Mary Martin) sings to comfort the Von Trapp children during a storm.
In the 1981 West End revival with Petula Clark, Maria and the children sing it at a fair, and in the 1998 Broadway revival with Rebecca Luker it is sung at the Salzburg Festival concert, replacing what would have been an intricate Bach-sounding reprise of "Do Re Mi", showing how exemplary the Von Trapp children were at singing difficult choral compositions.
The famous marionette puppetry sequence in the film was produced and performed by the leading puppeteers of the day, Bil Baird[2] and Cora Eisenberg.
In the Werewolf episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike Nelson briefly sings the first few lines of the song during the movie's end credits.
Randy Rainbow posted a parody of the song about U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, titled "The Nasty Woman" on YouTube on October 26, 2016.