Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam York album, Kurt Cobain refers to the song as "a rendition of an old Christian song, I think. But we do it the Vaselines' way." Elvis Costello uses the line "Maybe Jesus wants you for a sunbeam" in the song "Alibi" from his 2002 album "When I Was Cruel". On the deluxe edition of their 2014 Album "Bleach House", Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub released a cover of "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam". Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" is a song originally recorded by Scottish alternative band The Vaselines for their EP
How Firm a Foundation (hymn) Christmas Eve 1898, American units involved in the Spanish–American War joined together to sing the hymn. The units were from the North and the South. The hymn, along with "Jesus Loves Me," served as the thematic material for Virgil Thomson's "Symphony on a Hymn Tune", which was later incorporated into his score for the 1938 documentary film "The River". Sections of "The River"'s score were reused in the 1983 television film "The Day After". Don Gillis interspersed the hymn tune throughout his Symphony No. 7 "Saga of a Prairie School", written in honor of his alma mater, Texas Christian University.