The Water Is Wide (song) album from Christian rock band, Mercyme, used the tune for their arrangement of "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" on their 2015 album, Mercyme, "It's Christmas!". The thirtieth album of the band Oregon called "Lantern", released in 2017 on CAM Jazz, contains a version of the song as arranged by Paul McCandless. It played in the opening and closing credits of the 1964 film, "Nobody Waved Goodbye." Bob Dylan and Joan Baez rendered a version of the song for Bob Dylan's 1978 film, "Renaldo and Clara". It was performed by Susanna Hoffs in the film "Red Roses and Petrol" directed by
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was: "It's hard to overestimate the importance of "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", the record that firmly established Dylan as an unparalleled songwriter ... This is rich, imaginative music, capturing the sound and spirit of America as much as that of Louis Armstrong, Hank Williams, or Elvis Presley. Dylan, in many ways, recorded music that equaled this, but he never topped it." In March 2000, Van Morrison told the Irish rock magazine "Hot Press" about the impact that "Freewheelin"' made on him: "I think I heard it in a record shop in Smith Street. And I just thought it was incredible