Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

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written in:	Swiss Alps, Graubünden, Switzerland (from 1965-01-25 until 1965-02-07)

writer:	John Lennon (The Beatles) Paul McCartney (The Beatles)

publisher:	Maclen Music, Inc. (U.S. based publisher for Lennon–McCartney) Northern Songs Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (1995–2020)

written at:	Kenwood (John Lennon’s former house) in Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom (from 1965-01-25 until 1965-02-07)

lyrics page:	https://genius.com/The-beatles-norwegian-wood-this-bird-has-flown-lyrics [info]
SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/work/998 [info]
Songfacts:	http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=87 [info]
Wikidata:	Q965926 [info]

referred to in medleys:	The Music of The Beatles (order: 7)
later parody versions:	Norwegian Jim
later translated versions:	Alles war Holz Lain norvegin (Norwegian Wood) Norjan puu Norský dřevo Norwegiae lignum Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Punjabi) Qué podrá ser Seul
is the basis for:	From Bach to The Beatles Normafa
arrangements:	Norwegian Wood

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	recordings
1965-10-12	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (take 1)		The Beatles	1:59
1965-10-21	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (bootleg 5.1 mix)		The Beatles	2:05
1965-10-21	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (1987 remix)		The Beatles	2:05
1965-10-21	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (original stereo studio mix)		The Beatles	2:00
1965-10-21	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (original mono studio mix)		The Beatles	2:05
1966-02-18	Norwegian Wood	cover	Waylon Jennings	?:??
1966-06-01 – 1966-06-03	Norwegian Wood (stereo)	cover	Paul Horn Quintet	3:42
1967-06-03	Norwegian Wood (mono)	cover and instrumental	Herbie Mann	11:06
1968-01	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	cover	The Hour Glass	3:01
1968-02-01	Norwegian Wood	cover	Volker Kriegel	4:43
1968	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	Volker Kriegel	2:20
1968	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	cover	Moe Koffman	2:43
1969-01-07	Norwegian Wood 7.63	partial	The Beatles	1:20
1969-01-09	Norwegian Wood 9.49	partial	The Beatles	0:37
1969-12-15	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	Count Basie	2:54
1974-03-01 – 1974-03-03	Norwegian Wood	cover	Charlie Byrd	6:16
1977	Norwegian Wood	cover, instrumental and live	Buddy Rich & His Orchestra	?:??
1977	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	cover and live	Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush	3:09
1982-03	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker	2:49
1985-10	Norwegian Wood / For No One	cover and medley	Ofra Harnoy & Armin Electric Strings	4:30
1986-06-06	Bad (live: 1986-06-06: The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA)	cover, live and partial	U2	9:41
1988-10-29 – 1988-10-30	Norwegian Wood	cover	European Jazz Trio	3:58
1990-01-10	Medley: Bad / Norwegian Wood (live, 1990-01: Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands)	cover, live and partial	U2	8:04
1992-06-15	Bad / Norwegian Wood / You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (live, 1992-06-15: Sportpaleis Ahoy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)	cover, live and medley	U2	6:22
1992-06-15	Norwegian Wood / You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (live, 1992-06-15: Sportpaleis Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands)	cover, live and medley	U2	0:33
1993-10-19 – 1993-10-21	Norwegian Wood	cover, instrumental and live	Tommy Körberg and Tolvan Big Band	4:02
1994-04-26	Pay For What You Get	cover, live and partial	Dave Matthews Band	7:08
1994-08-25	Pay For What You Get	cover, live and partial	Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds	6:29
1994-10	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	cover	Allan Holdsworth	5:55
1994-11-26	Pay For What You Get	cover, live and partial	Dave Matthews Band	6:35
1995-02-24	Pay for What You Get	cover, live and partial	Dave Matthews Band	6:07
1995-02-24	Pay for What You Get	cover, live and partial	Dave Matthews Band	?:??
1995-04-05	Pay for What You Get	cover, live and partial	Dave Matthews Band	6:00
1995-05-05	Recently (live, 1995-05-05: L.B. Day Amphitheater)	cover, live and partial	Dave Matthews Band	8:25
1995-07-20	Pay for What You Get	cover, live and partial	Dave Matthews Band	7:02
1995	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	cover	Herbie Hancock	8:07
1996-04-14	Pay for What You Get	cover, live and partial	Dave Matthews	4:32
1996-08 – 1997-01	Norwegian Wood	cover	Rick Wakeman	5:51
1997-07-16 – 1997-07-17	Scarborough Fair / Norwegian Wood	instrumental and medley	Joe Beck and Ali Ryerson	4:48
1997-09-23 – 1997-09-24	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	David Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7	6:04
1999-02-07	Pay For What You Get > Message In a Bottle > Norwegian Wood	cover, live and medley	Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds	8:05
1999-04-20 – 1999-04-21	Norwegian Wood	cover	Johannes Enders	7:46
1999-05	Norwegian Wood	cover	Steve Smith and Buddy's Buddies	7:39
1999-10-26	Norwegian Wood (live, 1999-10-26: Olympic Gymnastics Arena, Seoul, South Korea)	cover, live and partial	Alanis Morissette	1:41
2000-01-15 – 2000-01-16	Norwegian Wood		Ulli Bögershausen	1:38
2000-06-04 – 2000-06-05	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	Les Boréades de Montréal	2:02
2000-12 – 2001-01	Norwegian Wood	cover	Rudy Rotta Band	3:48
2001-07	Norwegian Wood	cover	Logic?	6:46
2002-01 – 2002-09	Norwegian Wood	cover	Peter Lipa	3:52
2002-02-23 – 2002-02-25	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	Scenario, Simone Santini, Alberto Marsico, Enzo Zirilli	?:??
2002-07-12	Norwegian Wood (live, 2002-07-12: Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Powell, OH, USA)	live	A Walk Down Abbey Road	?:??
2002	Norwegian Wood	cover	The Swingle Singers	3:34
2003-02-22	Norwegian Wood	cover, instrumental and live	Chantal	2:23
2003-05-19 – 2003-05-21	Norvegian Wood		Stefano Bollani	2:34
2004	Norwegian Dub	cover and live	David Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7	8:55
2006-01-05 – 2006-01-06	Norwegian Wood	cover	Giovanni Guidi Trio	3:28
2009-09-23	Proudest Monkey	cover, live and partial	Dave Matthews Band	?:??
2009-10-05 – 2009-10-06	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	John Di Martino's Romantic Jazz Trio	4:08
2009-10-05 – 2009-10-06	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	John Di Martino's Romantic Jazz Trio	4:13
2010-04-01	Norwegian Wood (live, 2010-04-01: Royal Albert Hall, London, UK)	cover, instrumental and live	Tangerine Dream	5:30
2011-11	Norwegian Wood	cover	Big Yellow Taxi	4:38
2014-01	Norwegian Wood	cover	Stefanie Hempel	2:20
2014-04-03	Norwegian Wood	cover and live	Javier Navas, José Carra, Cuarteto Granada	5:06
2014-06-13	Norwegian Wood	cover and live	Nube 9	3:37
2019-02-14	巴黎晴空下 + 挪威森林 (live)	cover, live and medley	刘欢	4:29
2020-01-26	Norwegian Psy/Efil Eht Ni Yad A	cover	Poeta Negro	6:39
2021-04-06 – 2021-04-09	Norwegian Wood / Greensleeves	cover	Lautten Compagney, Wolfgang Katschner	3:09
2022-08-04 – 2022-08-06	Norwegian Wood		Ull Möck Trio	4:16
	All You Need Is Love: Hey Jude / Eleanor Rigby / The Long and Winding Road / Michelle / Norwegian Wood / Octopus's Garden / Oh! Darling / The End	medley	Kiwanis Kavaliers	10:59
	And I Love Her - Norwegian Wood	cover, instrumental and medley	Nonato Luiz	5:31
	Beatles Sweet - III. Hide & Seek in "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"	cover	高橋アキ	2:46
	Erin Shore / Norwegian Wood	cover	Wild Mercy	2:43
	Holst Suite for Band / First Federal March, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Norwegian Wood, Scarborough Fair, South Rampart Street Parade, Green Leaves of Summer	medley	Blue Stars	11:54
	Kingdom of Doom Collage: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	cover	Richard Christensen	3:24
	Mission: Impossible Theme / Norwegian Wood	cover and medley	Alan Copeland	2:58
	Norigian Woods	cover and instrumental	Discovery Light Orchestra	3:43
	Norwedian Wood (The Bird Has Flown)	cover	The Sign Posters	?:??
	Norwegian Jim	cover and live	Frank Zappa	2:59
	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	Wadim Brodski	2:21
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Joemy Wilson	3:47
	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	Enoch Light and the Light Brigade	2:51
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Lisa Rose	4:19
	Norwegian Wood		The Beatles	2:08
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Milton Nascimento	6:53
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Wayne Armond	3:33
	Norwegian Wood	cover	The Roy Meriwether Trio	3:54
	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	David Qualey	3:09
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Radio Stars	2:08
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Little Roy	?:??
	Norwegian Wood	cover	The London Jazz Four	2:45
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Waylon Jennings	2:02
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Leni Stern	5:54
	Norwegian Wood (stereo/mock stereo; date unknown)		The Beatles	2:01
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Giacomo Bondi	3:45
	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	The London Unity Orchestra	2:47
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Kurt Elling	5:38
	Norwegian Wood	cover	The Performers	2:19
	Norwegian Wood	cover and instrumental	The Starsound Orchestra	2:04
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Leila feat. Luca Santucci	3:34
	Norwegian Wood	cover	Moonflowers	5:24
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