Sobre las Olas

• Chet Atkins, on Alone
• The Beach Boys, on "I'm Going Your Way" (released with the title "Carnival (Over the Waves)")[3]
• Roy Clark, on The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark
• Willie Nelson, on Red Headed Stranger
• Mark O'Connor on American Classics

A Mexican film titled Sobre las olas was released in 1933.[4]

The Mexican film biography of Juventino Rosas, released in 1950 and starring Pedro Infante, is entitled Sobre las olas (Over the Waves).[5]

• In the United States, Sobre las olas has a cultural association with circuses, funfairs, and trapeze artists, as it was one of the tunes available for Wurlitzer's popular line of fairground organs.
• The music for Over the Waves was used for the song "The Loveliest Night of the Year", which was sung by Ann Blyth in MGM's film The Great Caruso.
• The composition is featured in the films Stage Fright (1950) and Sunset Boulevard (1950 film).
• The song appears along with "Entrance of the Gladiators", as a medley, in the Circus tribe stages in Lemmings 2: The Tribes.
• The song plays while riding a balloon in the Atari 2600 game, Pitfall II: The Lost Caverns, as well as its sequel, Super Pitfall.
• This waltz is performed in the James Bond movie, Octopussy, in the scene in the circus in Germany.
• On Sesame Street, Ernie often sang a song to this melody, called "George Washington Bridge".
• The tune is featured in the RKO Radio Pictures feature When's Your Birthday? (1937) starring Joe E. Brown.
• In the 1946 Warner Brothers cartoon, Daffy Doodles, Daffy sings "Sobre las olas" to the tune of "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter"
• "Sobre las olas" can be heard in the score of Disney's 1944 film The Three Caballeros during "The Cold-Blooded Penguin" segment.
• The song has also been used in Popeye cartoons.
• A parody of this song is used as the bridge of the Dead Kennedys' track "Chemical Warfare," which appears on their 1980 album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.
• In a Disney movie, Mary Poppins, Bert hums to this song while pretending to be a tightrope walker.
• On Barney & Friends episode, "Classical Cleanup", Mr. Boyd plays this song on the piano while Baby Bop dances and accidentally makes a mess in the classroom.
• This is one of the songs featured in the video game Wii Music.
• The waltz is used as background music in Sega's 1980 arcade game Carnival.
• An homage to this song appears in the bridge of the song "Drowning In Berlin" by the British new wave group The Mobiles at approximately 2:06.
• The song appears on the Woody Woodpecker cartoon Niagara Fools.
• The composition can be heard as accompanying music during one of the circus scenes in Laurel and Hardy's film The Chimp (1932).
• The melody appears as a bridge between the verses of "Waltzing with Bears" which is one of the songs on the album Minneapolis Concert by Ann Mayo Muir, Ed Trickett and Gordon Bok.[6]
• The song is played during a sequence at an amusement park in the 1971 film Harold and Maude.
• The song appears in the Woody Allen movie Irrational Man (2015).

• Sobre las olas: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• Sobre las Olas: Mexican Music from Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. Louisiana Digital Library.
• Sheet music for "Over the Waves", F. Trifet & Co., 1895.
• Vienna Orchestra (1904), A Hullamokon, Keringo (Over the Waves Waltz), Internet Archive, Columbia, retrieved 2017-12-29