The Wind Cries Mary - wikipedia The Wind Cries Mary `` The Wind Cries Mary '' German single picture sleeve Single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience A-side `` Purple Haze '' ( US ) B - side `` Highway Chile '' ( UK ) Released May 5, 1967 ( 1967 - 05 - 05 ) ( UK ) June 19, 1967 ( US ) Recorded January 11, 1967 Studio De Lane Lea, London Genre Rock Length 3 : 21 Label Track ( UK ) Reprise ( US ) Songwriter ( s ) Jimi Hendrix Producer ( s ) Chas Chandler Experience UK singles chronology `` Purple Haze '' ( 1967 ) `` The Wind Cries Mary '' ( 1967 ) `` Burning of the Midnight Lamp '' ( 1967 ) Experience US singles chronology `` Hey Joe '' ( 1967 ) `` The Wind Cries Mary '' ( 1967 ) `` Foxey Lady '' ( 1967 ) `` The Wind Cries Mary '' is a rock ballad written by Jimi Hendrix. According to his then girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham 's, account, he wrote the lyrics after an argument with her, using `` Mary '' ( Etchingham 's middle name ). In a later interview, Hendrix commented that the lyrics represent `` more than one person ''. Billy Cox, Hendrix 's long - time friend and later bassist, has noted Curtis Mayfield 's influence on the song. Hendrix performed elements or an early version in the summer of 1966 with his band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames in New York City. The Experience recorded it at De Lane Lea Studios in London on January 11, 1967, during sessions for their follow - up single to `` Hey Joe ''. Hendrix producer Chas Chandler commented on the recording : That was recorded at the tail end of the session for `` Fire ''. We had about twenty minutes or so left. I suggested we cut a demo of `` The Wind Cries Mary ''. Mitch Mitchell ( drummer ) and Noel Redding ( bassist ) had n't heard it, so they were going about it without a rehearsal. They played it once through ( and Hendrix then suggested overdubs ). In all he put on four or five more overdubs, but the whole things was done in twenty minutes. That was our third single. The single, backed by `` Highway Chile '', was released in the UK in May 1967 and reached number six on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, the song was first released as the B - side of the `` Purple Haze '' single in June 1967. It was later included on the American Are You Experienced album, released in August 1967. Hendrix often performed the song live in 1967 and 1968. A recording from the Monterey Pop Festival was later released on Jimi Plays Monterey ( 1986 ) and Live at Monterey ( 2007 ) ; another from the Paris L'Olympia Theatre appeared on Stages ( 1991 ), The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( 2000 ), and Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968 ( 2008 ). Stages also includes a 1967 recording from a Stockholm concert. Rolling Stone magazine ranked `` The Wind Cries Mary '' number 379 on its list of the `` 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ''. A variety of musicians have recorded the song, such as Jamie Cullum, John Mayer, Xavier Rudd, Richie Sambora, Sting, Popa Chubby, Pat Boone, and Caron Wheeler. Gil Evans later reworked the song as `` Mademoiselle Mabry '' for Miles Davis ' album Filles de Kilimanjaro. References ^ Jump up to : Shadwick, Keith ( 2003 ). Jimi Hendrix : Musician. San Francisco : Backbeat Books. p. 80, 97. ISBN 0 - 87930 - 764 - 1. Jump up ^ Watts, Simon ( February 3, 2013 ). `` Kathy Etchingham : Life as Jimi Hendrix 's ' Foxy Lady ' ''. BBC News. Retrieved December 30, 2013. Jump up ^ Hoggard, Liz ( September 16, 2010 ). `` ' I was Jimi Hendrix 's Yoko Ono ' : Kathy Etchingham speaks 40 years on ''. London Evening Standard. London. Retrieved December 30, 2013. Jump up ^ Hall, Douglas Kent ; Clark, Sue C. ( 1970 ). Rock, A World Bold As Love. Cowles Book. Jump up ^ McDermott, John ; Kramer, Eddie ; Cox, Billy ( 2009 ). Ultimate Hendrix. New York City : Backbeat Books. p. 33. ISBN 0 - 87930 - 938 - 5. Jump up ^ `` Jimi Hendrix Experience -- Singles ''. Official Charts. Retrieved September 22, 2016. Jump up ^ The American album included the three UK experience singles in place of three other songs. Jump up ^ Rolling Stone ( December 9, 2004 ). `` The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ''. Rolling Stone ( 963 ). Retrieved September 22, 2016. Jimi Hendrix Original 1966 -- 1970 releases are marked in bold. Studio albums Are You Experienced Axis : Bold as Love Electric Ladyland The Cry of Love Rainbow Bridge War Heroes Loose Ends Crash Landing Midnight Lightning Nine to the Universe Voodoo Soup First Rays of the New Rising Sun Valleys of Neptune People, Hell and Angels Live albums Band of Gypsys Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival Experience Isle of Wight Hendrix in the West More Experience The Jimi Hendrix Concerts Jimi Plays Monterey Johnny B. 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Question: who wrote the song the wind cries mary
Answer: Jimi Hendrix