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"Inchworm" has been recorded by many singers, including Paul McCartney, Anne Murray, Kenny Loggins, We Five, John Lithgow, Mary Hopkin, Doris Day, Lisa Loeb, The Sandpipers, and many others. Performed instrumentally, it was a regular feature of the John Coltrane Quartet's repertoire and appears on the album Coltrane.
David Bowie said the song was the inspiration behind his 1980 song "Ashes to Ashes":
Ashes To Ashes wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t have been for Inchworm. There’s a nursery rhyme element in it, and there’s something so sad and mournful and poignant about it. It kept bringing me back to the feelings of those pure thoughts of sadness that you have as a child, and how they’re so identifiable even when you’re an adult. (Wikipedia)