The song has been covered many times, initially by Tages, who released the song for their November 1966 album "Extra Extra". The Shadows did an instrumental version of the song on their 1967 album "Jigsaw". Les Hou-Lops made a French cover "Vendredi m'obsède" in 1967, also recorded in the same year by Erick Saint Laurent. The song was also performed by Romanian band Phoenix on their first EP, "Vremuri" (""Old times"") in 1968. David Bowie recorded a version on his 1973 RCA covers album "Pin Ups"; for Harry Vanda, it was "the only cover I ever liked". The same year, San Francisco-based Earth Quake covered the song, which was released as the first-ever single on the Beserkley Records label. The live recording by Earth Quake was well known in Cleveland in the late 1970s, as one of three songs played each Friday at 6.00pm by leading rock radio station WMMS to mark the start of the weekend.