Other Cover Versions
The song has been covered by several other artists, including an audacious live performance by Leon Russell at the 1971 Concert for Bangla Desh, who was accompanied by a stageful of world-class musicians including George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr; a 1976 top 20 release by Bad Company; a 1983 version by Beach Boys guitarist Carl Wilson that served as the title track to Youngblood (his second solo album); and a version by Bruce Willis in The Return of Bruno (1987). The Grateful Dead are known to have soundchecked the song. "Young Blood" was also featured in an episode of Happy Days. The song also appeared on Jerry Lee Lewis's 1995 album of the same name.
The song was also sung by season 10 American Idol contestant Scotty McCreery during the Leiber & Stoller week of the competition.
A sound bite, "Look a-there! Look a-there! Look a-there!" from the Coasters' version was used in a Dickie Goodman comedy record, Flying Saucer the Second.
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