[1] Ivanovici's "Danube Waves" was published in the United States in 1896 and republished in 1903 by the Theodore Lohr Company in an arrangement for piano by Simon Adler.
The melody of "Waves of the Danube" was used in what is regarded as Korea's first popular (trot) song, "In Praise of Death"[a] by Yun Sim-deok recorded in 1926.
A cover by The New Vaudeville Band was used in 1968 as the title song for cult British Hammer horror The Anniversary starring Bette Davis.
"Waves of the Danube" is used in and referred to by characters in the 1963 Soviet film Alyonka, directed by Boris Barnet, in which a newly-graduated dentist imagines her new life on the steppe accompanied by Ivanovici's melody.
In the bibliographic film Persona Non Grata this waltz is used in one of the final acts in a dance between the protagonist Chiuge Sugihara and his wife near by an orchestra.
The song was sung with American lyrics by Donny Most (as character Ralph Malph) on the ABC sitcom Happy Days, in the 1976 episode titled "They Shoot Fonzies Don't They?"
The song is sung by Alexander-Shura, the main character of the bestseller novel The Bronze Horseman, by Paullina Simons (2001), the night of his wedding with Tatiana, in Lazarevo.