Several early rock singers recorded their own versions of the song, notably
Johnny Burnette,
The Standells,
Bill Haley and
Ritchie Valens.
Dick Dale and his Deltones included a version on their 1965 album ''Rock Out With Dick Dale & His Del-Tones Live At Ciro's
. Among others who have used the song are The Cyrkle on their 1966 debut album, Red Rubber Ball, Joni Mitchell during her 1970 concert in Amchitka for Greenpeace, pairing the song with Big Yellow Taxi in a medley. The Who included a 1971 live performance on their 1994 compilation Thirty Years of Maximum R&B; Ronnie Hawkins on his 1972 album "Rock And Roll Resurrection"; Dr. Feelgood included it on their 1974 album Down by the Jetty; Johnny Winter included it on his 1974 album Saints and Sinners
and on his 1975 album Captured Live!; Showaddywaddy and Julie Covington recorded for the 1977 Amnesty International benefit show The Mermaid Frolics
, Gram Parsons performed it live in 1973, the performance was released in 1982 on Live 1973''. Gram's friends, The Crickets, also recorded the song in 1974; Gram had planned to join them in the studio.
James Booker covered the song on his album
Resurrection Of The Bayou Maharajah (1993) as part of a medley with "Slow Down", "Knock On Wood", "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", and "Classified".
French, Spanish and Serbo-Croatian versions Les Habits Jaunes made a
French cover version entitled "Miss Boney Maronie" in 1965. The song was translated into
Spanish by
Enrique Guzmán and
Manny Martinez, who renamed it "Popotitos". Originally released as a single in 1961 by Guzman's and Martinez's band
Los Teen Tops, "Popotitos" was also covered by a wide range of Spanish-speaking artists such as
Ricky Martin and
Miguel Ríos. The song was recorded by
Argentinian rock/pop group
Serú Girán in 1982, which introduced "Popotitos" to younger generations, and made it a hit again across
Latin America. A
Serbo-Croatian version of the song was recorded by
Yugoslav avant-garde rock band
Laboratorija Zvuka and released on their 1982 album
Duboko u tebi.
Rumoured Beatles versions According to biographer
Mark Lewisohn,
the Beatles (first as
the Quarrymen) regularly performed the song, from 1957 until 1961 with
John Lennon on lead vocal, but there is no known recorded version. Lennon himself recorded it for his 1975 album, ''
Rock 'n' Roll. Roy Young recorded a single version in 1972 (liner notes CD set Roy Young The Best of 50 Years''). Additionally three of Lennon's original
Quarrymen cut a version during rehearsal in 1993 that came out on CD as
The Quarry Men - The Rehearsal Tapes, copyrighted and privately released in 2004 (only via website sales, now out of print). ==Legacy==