The song was also featured in the Rankin/Bass special The First Easter Rabbit in 1976 and has since become a standard.
Here's the Easter Rabbit, hooray!
The happy Easter Rabbit, hooray!
Bugs Bunny finds the Easter Bunny (also called the "Easter Rabbit" throughout this cartoon) sitting on a rock, crying.
The annual holiday show with the Rockettes, the "Glory of Easter" and the Easter Rabbit.
The Easter Bunny (also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare) is a character depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs.
"Easter Show," with the Rockettes and the Easter Rabbit.
And we created other mythical creatures which were neither dark nor fearsome, but simply pleasant products of our imagination-Santa Claus, the Easter Rabbit, Jack Frost, the Sandman, and many, many others.
The first two were Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971), narrated by Danny Kaye, and The First Easter Rabbit (1976), narrated by Burl Ives.
In The First Easter Rabbit, also by Rankin/Bass, he was the voice of the main character, Stuffy.