"Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" has been recorded many times and is now considered a
pop standard. The first recorded versions were by
Byron G. Harlan and
Harry Tally. In the August 15, 1929
Thimble Theatre comic strip, Castor Oyl sings the song after he loses $10 million.
Bing Crosby and
Mary Martin sang it in the 1941 film
Birth of the Blues, and also recorded it for
Decca Records on March 13, 1942.
Harry James recorded a version in 1941 on
Columbia 36466. In a long-standing tradition,
floor traders at the
New York Stock Exchange sing this song on the last trading day of every year and on Christmas Eve. The song has been the stock exchange anthem at least back as far as 1934. It is also a popular song in
barbershop music. It appeared as a country music hit as performed by the Golden Memory Boys in the summer of 1940. A sample of the song, sung
a cappella by Tom Bromley, an elderly First World War veteran, appears on the
Roger Waters 1992 album
Amused to Death at the end of the track "What God Wants (Part III)". The clip is from
BBC television's 1991
Everyman documentary, "A Game of Ghosts". ==Film appearances==