"Root Beer Rag" was also the name of a Billy Joel newsletter (now defunct) published in the late 1970s to late 1980s.In 2014, the song was featured in the documentary film about Roger Ebert, "Life Itself" (Root Beer Rag was used as the opening theme song on the first iteration of "Siskel & Ebert" (known as "Opening Soon at a Theater Near You") in 1975 which only aired on public television in Chicago.)