In 1960, Anne Bredon appeared on a live folk-music show on radio station KPFA in Berkeley, California, where she performed "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You".

Vanguard Records co-owner/producer Maynard Solomon commented in the album liner notes: "The strange quality [and power] of the song is that the narrator inwardly desires exactly the opposite of what he [sic] will do, and is torn by the prospect of his self-imposed departure.

[1] He played the song for singer Robert Plant during their first meeting at Page's riverside home at Pangbourne in late July 1968.

[1] They incorporate hard rock sections with electric guitar that are performed by the whole group, thus more than doubling the length of Baez' original.

As of 2002, the 1969 promotional EP using the song as the A-side track and "Dazed and Confused" as B-side had been one of the top ten Led Zeppelin music collectibles,[16] selling for around US$300–500 each.