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 as "a possession of Bob, who was the center of attention". The speed and facility with which Dylan wrote topical songs attracted the attention of other musicians in the New York folk scene. In a radio interview on WBAI in June 1962, Pete Seeger described Dylan as "the most prolific songwriter on the scene" and then asked Dylan how many songs he had written recently. Dylan replied, "I might go for two weeks without writing these songs. I write a lot of stuff. In fact, I wrote five songs last night but I gave all the papers away in some