Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

[2] The song created a market for future Disney tunes and led to a contract with Irving Berlin Publishing Co. that same year, securing the sheet music rights over Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies.

[3] As Neal Gabler wrote in his 2007 biography of Walt Disney, the song "indisputably became the nation's new anthem, its cheerful whoop hurled in the face of hard times.

Significant similarities can be found in the British early 20th century chasing game Who's Afraid of Black Peter?

[6] German historian and non-fiction author Susanna Partsch confirms a possible connection between the game of Black Man and Ronell's and Churchill's lyrical concept[8] while Isabel Vollmuth, Portuguese-German professor at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies (University of Applied Sciences in Landshut), describes Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

was covered by American rapper LL Cool J on the Disney album Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination.