I Can't Let Maggie Go 10 hit in Italy, with a 1968 version made by Equipe 84, entitled "Un angelo blu" ("A blue angel"). It enjoyed an unexpected reprise in popularity in the 1970s, when it was used as the soundtrack for a television advertisement for "Nimble", a bread produced for slimmers. "I Can't Let Maggie Go" has been covered by J. Vincent Edwards in 1974, as well as by the Sideburns in 1993. David Essex included his own version on the 2005 compilation album, "The Complete Collection". I Can't Let Maggie Go "I Can't Let Maggie Go" is a song by the British pop
The Red Balloon a spiritual successor to "The Red Balloon". A stage adaptation by Anthony Clark was performed at the Royal National Theatre in 1996. Don Hertzfeld's 1997 short film "Billy's Balloon", which also showed at Cannes, is a parody of "The Red Balloon". The music video for "Son of Sam" by Elliott Smith, from his 2000 album Figure 8, is a direct homage to "The Red Balloon". Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2007 film "Flight of the Red Balloon" is a direct homage to the film. A boy with a bright red balloon is featured in the epilogue of Damien Chazelle's 2016 musical film "La