The Halliard recorded Bold Captain Grant in a 1968 demo for their Saga record label. The project was shelved, however, and it took until 2006 for their album The Last Goodnight! to be released. Dave Moran noted:

"We think this is probably from the Harkness Collection. Nic [Jones]’s tune sometimes gets wonderfully stretched to fit in the different length of lines in different verses. We are certain that the late Tony Capstick sang it very often and that it was a ‘tour de force’ version when he did! I believe Ewan MacColl collected a song of the same name with only three verses and one of the verses has some of the same lines."

Tony Capstick sang Captain Grant in 1971 on his Rubber album with Hedgehog Pie, His Round. He noted:

"Captain Grant was put to music from a broadside by the Halliard."

Jack the Lad (with bassist Phil Murray who played on Tony Capstick’s album) sang Captain Grant in 1975 on their Charisma album Rough Diamonds.

Both Tony Capstick and Jack the Lad sang "Lord Natty Take-up" but the Halliard's version and Charles Benfield who sang Captain Grant to Cecil Sharp in 1909, sang "To that noted hero called Natty Take-up" without the "Lord" title.