<P> The song has also been covered by many groups and is available on many children songs CDs and is considered as children's music in many countries . It can also be found on many musical toys made since the late 1960s . For example, a Sankyo music box made in the 1970s played the song, as do many musical toys manufactured today . </P> <P> In the 1960s the Grasshoppers, a parody of the Chipmunks sang that song on a children's album . </P> <P> The song has also been parodied a few times, including: </P> <Ul> <Li> In 1953, the year of the original's release, country musicians Homer & Jethro, "the thinking man's hillbillies," released their parody, "How Much Is That Hound Dog in the Window?" ("Window" was pronounced "winder", and the lyrics continued with, "...I do hope that flea bag's for sale ...") It was to become an enormous hit--their first crossover hit--and rose to No. 2 on Billboard's country charts . </Li> <Li> Another notable (but hardly at all known) parody, according to David English, former president of RSO Records--which went on to become Eric Clapton's and the Bee Gees' record label--was the very first record released by that company in 1973, with Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber . The record was "Window The In Doggie (That is Much How)"--sung to the tune of "Doggie", but with each line of lyrics sung backwards . According to the pseudonyms listed on the label, the artist was "Rover", and the song was produced by "Jo Rice" and arranged by "Don Gould". English would later quip that the record "sold about eight copies". </Li> <Li> Although not strictly a parody of this song, the Latin translation of this song's name is used as the motto of the fictional city of Ankh - Morpork in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series . The city's motto is said to be "Quanti Canicula Ille In Fenestra?", which translates as "How Much is That Doggie in the Window?" </Li> <Li> "How much is that window in the doggie?" was written by the quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan . A pane of glass falls from a building and slices into a man's seeing eye dog . A child observer asks the inverted question . His cartoons oft dealt with taboo subjects . </Li> </Ul>

There's a doggy in the window song