"The Gandy Dancers' Ball" is a song recorded by Frankie Laine in 1951, but with gandy dancers as actual dancers at a railroad workers' ball. Laine sang it with a chorus of dancers in the 1955 comedy film "Bring Your Smile Along". In 1962, The Ventures recorded the song "Gandy Dancer", an original instrumental composition that was released on their album "Going to the Ventures Dance Party". Singer/political activist Bruce "Utah" Phillips, in "Moose Turd Pie", told a tall tale of working as a gandy dancer in the American southwest. Phillips ascribed the source of the workers' shovels to the possibly mythical Gandy Shovel Company of Chicago. A scene from the 1985 film, "The Color Purple", features a caller directing a railroad maintenance crew. In The Adventure Zone's "Dust" arc, Clint McElroy played a character named Gandy Dancer. Gandy Dancers are celebrated with their own festival, The Gandy Dancer Festival, in Mazomanie, WI. The one-day festival, held the 3rd Saturday of August, celebrates the hard work Gandy Dancers contributed toward building America.