The figure of Glasgerion was cited as a harper in Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame and Gavin Douglas's The Palice of Honour.
[4] This version, in which the harpist becomes a fiddler, appeared on his 1966 album First Person with Dave Swarbrick on fiddle.
"Jack Orion" later became part of the repertoire of Pentangle, the band that Jansch and Renbourn formed along with Terry Cox, Jacqui McShee and Danny Thompson, and appears on their 1970 recording Cruel Sister.
In the sleeve notes Carthy observed that "the song in its traditional form was, according to evidence at our [his and A. L. Lloyd’s] disposal, not very widespread, which serves to highlight one of the curious features of the folk revival, that is, the many songs which were not at all common in tradition are very commonly sung in the revival and vice versa.
"[5] The British folk rock band Trees included a version of Glasgerion in The Garden of Jane Delawney, their 1970 debut album.