 Though it was not as instrumentally polished as the Dovells's original version, the Checker version added more pep to the song.The album title is the same name as the movie starring Checker.On the live performance of Gary U.S. Bonds's "Seven Day Weekend" found on Johnny Thunders's live soundtrack album "Stations of the Cross," Walter Lure begins singing the chorus of the song, playing on the fact that the two songs share the same chord sequence, although the chord sequence was used on many songs from the era.