In 1976, the song was the Four Seasons' contribution to the soundtrack of "All This and World War II", a musical documentary that author Nicholas Schaffner described as "the most bizarre" of several film and television works that capitalised on EMI, now free of its contractual obligations to the Beatles, flooding the market with re-packaged Beatles singles. Schaffner included this heavily orchestrated version, produced by Lou Reizner, among the interpretations that " in making Lennon–McCartney's greatest songs sound, at best, like the Beatles' rendition of 'Good Night'". In 1981, Stars on 45 covered "We Can Work It Out" as part of an eight-song Beatles medley in their single "Stars on 45". This version topped the "Billboard" Hot 100 in June that year.