"Who Has Seen The Wind?" [Yoko Ono]

"Who Has Seen The Wind?" [Yoko Ono]

First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?

Part of: "Instant Karma!"

Ono, Yoko; music (Japanese, born 1933)

Lennon, John; production (English, 1940-1980)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Ono, Yoko; text (Japanese, born 1933)

1970 [copyright]

Ono Music, Ltd.

genre: popular music|song

solo: voice

instrumentation: recorder|guitar|harpsichord|tambourine

origin: United Kingdom

female composer|male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"

Place in the larger work: This song is one of two released in an audio recording, A-side, "Instant Karma!" (John Lennon); B-side, “Who Has Seen the Wind?” (Yoko Ono).

Work contains texts by multiple authors

Notes about the text: Although in the sleeve notes the writing of the song is credited solely to Yoko Ono, the first two stanzas of the song are in fact lines 5-8 of Rossetti's "'Who has seen the wind?'".

Recordings: Lennon/Ono with the Plastic Ono Band. "Who Has Seen the Wind?." Instant Karma! / Who Has Seen the Wind?. Performance by Yoko Ono, vocals, recorder, John Lennon, acoustic guitar, John Barham, harpsichord, tambourine, produced by John Lennon. Apple Records, 1970. (B-side, vinyl, 45 rpm). YouTube, uploaded by MJ's Vinyl Channel, 14 Jul 2015, https://youtu.be/uVvd_ZRdSxs.
Lennon/Ono with the Plastic Ono Band. "Who Has Seen the Wind?". Wedding Album (reissue), Rykodisc, 1997. (Bonus CD track)

Notes: On the 45 rpm vinyl record, The Apple Records label instructs listeners on the A-Side face, "Instant Karma!", to "PLAY LOUD", while on the B-side face, "How Has Seen the Wind?", it reads "PLAY LOW" or "PLAY QUIET" for UK records, and "PLAY SOFT" for US records. Other countries have done the same, some in their language. The label Apples Records released the 1970 record in the UK and in many other countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Ireland, Japan (also by the label Odeon), Malaysia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Singapore, Sweden, Turkey, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia (also by the label Jugoton); and with labels Parlophone in Jamaica, New Zealand, Portugal and South Africa, and with Odeon in Spain. From the images found on the entries listed on the Discogs webpage ("Lennon* - Instant Karma!") the title of the song was translated in Spanish "Quien ha visto el viento?" for releases in Spain [Odeon label], Argentina and Uruguay [Apple Records label], and in Japanese [Odeon label] in Japan.

Format 1: sound recording

performance time 2 minutes and 2 seconds

Other data reference(s): "Who Has Seen the Wind?." John Lennon, http://www.johnlennon.com/music/with-yoko-ono/who-has-seen-the-wind/. Accessed 24 June 2020.
Bocaro, Madeline. "Yoko Song: Who Has Seen the Wind." Madeline Bocaro, 20 May 2014, https://madelinex.com/2014/05/20/yoko-songs-who-has-seen-the-wind/
"Instant Karma!." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Karma!. Accessed 24 Jun 2020.
"Lennon* - Instant Karma!." Discogs, https://www.discogs.com/master/view/72843. Accessed 30 Jun 2020.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Audio recording UK label and sleeve: "Lennon* - Instant Karma!." Discogs, https://www.discogs.com/Lennon-Instant-Karma/release/390001. Accessed 30 Jun 2020.

Audio recording US sleeve: "John Ono Lennon* ‎– Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)." Discogs, https://www.discogs.com/John-Ono-Lennon-Instant-Karma-We-All-Shine-On/release/3639495. Accessed 30 Jun 2020.
Audio recording Spain sleeve: " Lennon / Ono* With The Plastic Ono Band ‎– Instant Karma! ." Discogs, https://www.discogs.com/Lennon-Ono-With-The-Plastic-Ono-Band-Instant-Karma/release/3852643. Accessed 30 Jun 2020.
Audio recording Japan sleeve: "Lennon* ‎– Instant Karma!." Discogs, https://www.discogs.com/Lennon-Instant-Karma/release/4205495. Accessed 30 Jun 2020.

Record: CRM-whohasseen-ono

File(s): CRM-whohasseen-ono-labelUK.jpg; CRM-whohasseen-ono-sleeveUK.jpg; CRM-whohasseen-ono-sleeveUS.jpg; CRM-whohasseen-ono-sleeveSpain.jpg; CRM-whohasseen-ono-sleeveJapan.jpg

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