Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)

Since Donegan's version was released, it has appeared as a Smarties jingle, a performance on The Muppet Show, and re-worked into Czech by Jiří Grossmann. Additional versions of the song were recorded by The Irish Rovers and Homer & Jethro. In 2010, Donegan's version was used as the background song for a satellite TV advertisement for Savlon antiseptic cream. It has also been recorded by Eric Nagler (on his 1982 children's album Fiddle Up a Tune); Ray Stevens covers the song as part of his 9-CD, 108 song box set The Encyclopedia of Recorded Comedy Music (2012). == Popularity ==

"Does Your Chewing Gum..." has been a popular song on the Dr. Demento Show, appearing 54 times between the show's premiere and 2006 and selected for the Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection double CD. In Ken Kesey's novel ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', the character Randle Patrick McMurphy also sings a few lines of this song when he realizes the Chief is storing used gum under his bed. It was referred to on ''Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation''. It was also alluded to in the lyrics of "Ahab the Arab" by Ray Stevens, and the Buchanan and Goodman 1961 novelty number, "Berlin Top Ten". It has made an appearances on children's television shows, such as ''Sharon, Lois, & Bram's Elephant Show, Kidsongs and Barney & Friends''. The song "Does The Spearmint..." appears in one episode of HBO's series Boardwalk Empire. Bruce Springsteen has described the song as having been one of his favorites as a child. A Swedish cover "En sak, som man ibland kan ligga vaken en hel natt och fundera på" ("Thoughts You Lie Awake Thinking All Night") was used in a variety 1968 named Lådan ("The box") by Hasse & Tage ==U.S. chart run==

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