Contemporary Usage
"Israelites" (and a corresponding mondegreen) was used in a 1990 television advertisement for Maxell audio cassettes, and was parodied in the British TV advert for Vitalite from 1987 to 1995. The song is infrequently used in the UK soap opera EastEnders mainly played by shopkeeper Patrick Trueman who has been shown to favour the song.
Xaphoon Jones of the hip-hop group Chiddy Bang used a sample of Israelites for the song "Get Up In The Morning," which would become the first track on their mixtape The Swelly Express. Maxi Priest and UB40 mimicked the song's melody and chord progression in their 2008 collaboration "Dance Until the Morning Light", from the UB40 album TwentyFourSeven.
"Israelites" was featured on the soundtrack of the Gus Van Sant film, Drugstore Cowboy and is the opening song on the soundtrack to Nigel Cole's 2010 film, Made in Dagenham.
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