 (He had previously played a different character in a 1959 episode of the sitcom).The song's lyrics were changed to "join the Army" instead of "join the circus" to reflect his character's reason to exit the show as Shelley Fabare's "love interest" ala Elvis' zeitgeist Army stint.The song was also used in a film on Pop Art directed by Ken Russell for the BBC TV series "Monitor" which was aired in March 1962; its context here was the escape from the dying culture of the British Empire.