• In 1957,
Peter Sellers recorded a rendition in a voice he created for
The Goon Show, Willium "Mate" Cobblers. It reached No. 17 in the
UK Singles Chart that year. Sellers had previously performed it as Major Dennis Bloodnok (with
Spike Milligan as Minnie Bannister) in a 1954 episode of
The Goon Show titled "
The Booted Gorilla". •
Davy Jones, later of
The Monkees, performed a version on
David Jones, a 1965 solo album. • It was performed on
The Muppet Show by
Kermit the Frog, joined by
Fozzie Bear, two
whatnots, and the audience. [Season 2, Episode 14 (
Elton John)] • It was performed by
Roger Daltrey, accompanied by
The Chieftains, in
Belfast,
Northern Ireland in 1992. A recording of the performance appears on the album
An Irish Evening. • It was included in
The Boy Friend,
Ken Russell's 1971 film version of the musical by
Sandy Wilson. • There is a scene in
Richard Attenborough's 1992 biopic
Chaplin where
Charlie and
Syd meet just before Charlie's audition for music hall impresario
Mr. Karno, they greet each other by singing the chorus to "Any Old Iron". • It was also sung by
Chas and Dave on their 2015 album
"Enjoy Yourself" (The Complete Jamboree Bag). • In one episode of
Are You Being Served?, "The Hand of Fate", Mr. Mash cannot find the owner of a shipment of 27 galvanized buckets, and starts singing the song and accompanying himself by rattling the buckets around. • The Barron Knights used the tune and some of the lyrics of the song in a satire on punk, in the late 1970s. • The band
Snuff included the song as a previously unreleased track on their 2005 compilation:
Six Of One, Half A Dozen Of The Other 1986-2002. • British comedian
Bill Bailey, along with the
BBC Concert Orchestra, as part of his live show "Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra", mixed the song in as part of a "Cockney Arrangement" of the "
William Tell Overture". • Somerset band
The Wurzels sample the song's melody in their song Blackbird. • The song was used, with different lyrics, in
television advertisements for
Hammerite and Smoothrite paint. • In the
T-Bag series; 'T-Bag and the Revenge of the T-Set', in the third episode ('Lost in Space') the character; T-shirt starts singing the first part of the song when T-Bag is using a metal detector. • There is a sequence in the movie
Yellow Submarine when the "real"
Beatles are confronted with their look-alikes trapped in a blue glass sphere, inspiring
John to go off on an abstruse invocation of Einstein's
Theory of relativity, to which
Paul's response is to sing "Any old Ein! Any old Ein! Any any any old Einstein!" •
Scunthorpe United F.C. ("The Iron") have adopted this song, and it is played before all of their home games. • In
Top Gear Series 18, Jeremy and James sing the song in jest as Richard drives the old style
Morgan 3-Wheeler through a corner. • In the 2001
Steven Spielberg movie
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, while the rejected robots are being chased by the bikers for a "Flesh Fair", the commander of the illuminated hot-air balloon is repeatedly saying over a loudspeaker "Any old iron". ==References==