Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan

Added by Bill Emery

Imported from The Echo Nest

Written by: Bob Dylan
Language: English
First recorded in: February 1973
Released on: Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid - Original Soundtrack Recording
Album
July 13, 1973
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door written by Bob Dylan English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Bob Dylan	July 13, 1973	First recording in February 1973 First release Sampled by Gabrielle [GB]
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Top of the Pops	October 1973
Knockin' on Heavens Door	Four Jets	1973
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Inger Lise	1973
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Blow Up [IT]	February 1974
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	G.T. Moore and The Reggae Guitars	1974
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Eric Clapton	August 1975
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Wayne Roland Brown ‎	1975
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Roger McGuinn	1975
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Arthur Louis	1975
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Kevin Coyne	1976
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Booker T. Jones	1978
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Dansbolaget	1978
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Polarna	1978
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Cold Chisel	1981
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Jerry Garcia	November 1982
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Television	1982
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The Heart of Gold Band	1984
Knocking on Heaven's Door	The Sisters of Mercy	1985
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Danny & Dusty	1985
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Fairport Convention	January 1986
Knocking on Heavens Door	The Alarm	1986
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Guns n' Roses	September 1987
Knocking on Heaven's Door	George McCrae	1987
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The Jazz Butcher	1987
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Stan Campbell	1987	Unverified
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead	January 18, 1988
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Randy Crawford	1989
Heaven	Leatherface	1989
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The Rescue	1989	Unverified
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Evandro Mesquita	1991
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Kingston Club	1993
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Dead Ringers	1993
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Ed Robinson	1993
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Leningrad Cowboys and The Alexandrov Red Army Ensemble	1993	Live
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Helios Creed	1994
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	February 5, 1997
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Ratdog	May 1997
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Selig	1997
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	JGB	March 24, 1998
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The Paragons [JM]	August 11, 1998
Knockin' on Heavens Door	Mona Larsen	1998
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Toll Ayro	April 11, 1999
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Red Alert	1999
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Kathleen Vandenhoudt	1999
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The BB Band	1999
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Rebecca Wheatley	March 13, 2000
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Jerry Garcia - David Grisman - Tony Rice	April 25, 2000
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Etta Cameron with Steve Cameron	October 31, 2000
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Michel Montecrossa	October 2000
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Marva Wright	November 28, 2000
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Crazy Betty	December 2000
Knocking on Heavens Door	The Mystic Eyes [DE]	January 2001	Live
Knockin on Heaven's Door	Absolute Grey	2001
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Beth Scalet	2001
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Den Fiori	2002
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Roger Waters	2002
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Judy Mowatt	2002
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Wyclef Jean	2002
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Warren Zevon	August 26, 2003
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Avril Lavigne	2003
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Gene Clark & Roger McGuinn	2003
Knocking on Heavens Door	Soluna Samay & Gee Gee Kettel	2003
Knocking on Heavens Door	Freddy Fender	April 8, 2004
Knockin Heaven's Door	Youme	June 8, 2004
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Cat Power	October 26, 2004
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Luciano	2004
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Bo Katzman Chor	2004	Unverified
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Bavarian Banditos	September 12, 2005
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Dana Robbins	September 20, 2005
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Shy Blakeman and The Whiskey Fever Band	November 8, 2005
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Bronco Bob	2005
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Charlie Cuccia	2005
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The Goslings	2005	Unverified
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Les Fradkin	July 21, 2006
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	United Rhythms of Brazil	November 20, 2006
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The Tequila Mockingbirds	December 2006	Acoustic Live
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Claire Diterzi	2006
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Nashville	2006
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Rudy Rotta & Friends	2006
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Cagey Strings	2006
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Stewart Michaels	January 2007
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Bryan Ferry	March 5, 2007
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Rick Devin	April 30, 2007
Knockin' on Heavens Door	Magnus Lindberg & Eric Bell	May 3, 2007
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds	September 18, 2007	Editor's cover song pick
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Antony and The Johnsons	October 30, 2007
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Avid All Stars	October 2007
Knockin on Heavens Door	The Kentucky Boys	2007
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Erik Segerstedt	2007
Knockin' on Heaven's Door / Amazing Gra…	Pat Surface	2008
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	SFUZZI East/West	2008
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The Hanaway Band	2008
Knocking on Heaven's Door	MonaLisa and Band	2008	Live
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The Fool Wasters (Open Records Studio Artists)	January 30, 2009
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Steve Wynn, Alejandro Escovedo	June 30, 2009
Knockin on Heavens Door	Pat Guadagno & Tired Horses	October 2009
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Ben Sidran	November 16, 2009
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Jef Lee Johnson	2009
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Bjørn Fjæstad	August 2, 2010
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Grassmasters	September 2010
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The Persuasions	November 9, 2010
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Winston Apple	2010
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Bernardo Lanzetti	2010
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Alexis P. Suter	April 19, 2011
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Nik Rael	August 3, 2011
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The Starbugs	September 2011
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	The CalypsoNuts	November 3, 2011
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Les Chics Types	2011
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Sofia Laiti	2011
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	RedOne featuring Nabil Khayat	January 24, 2012
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Daniele Negroni	May 25, 2012
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Places Around the World	September 12, 2012
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Benji	September 18, 2012
Knocking on Heavens Door	The Holophonics	November 27, 2012
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Mark Andrew	March 25, 2013
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Flávio Mendes	August 20, 2013
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Facundo Arana	July 22, 2014
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Grateful Dead with Special Guest Branford Marsalis	September 9, 2014	Live
Knocking on Heavens Door	RAIGN	March 12, 2015
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Brian Johnson & Joshua Davis	May 19, 2015
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Samantha Sax	July 9, 2015
Wildest Dreams Mashup	Andie Case	September 14, 2015
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Cyrus	December 9, 2015	Editor's cover song pick
Knockin' on Heaven's Door / Helpless	Tom Lum Forest	March 2016
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Blakwall	May 10, 2016
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Bonefield	November 9, 2017
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Mudcrutch	2017
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Jason Manns feat. Kim Rhodes	January 19, 2018
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Drew Cole & Miya Bass	March 26, 2018
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Alice Lamb	November 4, 2018	Acoustic
Knocking on Heaven's Door	Zac Harmon	July 2019
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Clarksdale Bros.	2019
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Tanya Donelly	May 17, 2020
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Darrell Mansfield	July 1, 2020
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Low	April 15, 2021
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (A Sight to R…	KUKU		Unverified

Knockin' on Heaven's Door written by Bob Dylan instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Pete Carr	1978
i	Knocking on Heavens Door	Alex Bollard Assembly	1993
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Lex Vandyke	1993
i	Knocking on Heavens Door	The London Pops Orchestra	1996
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	CMH Studio Artists	April 1999
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Pascal Comelade	2000
i	Knocking on Heaven's Door	Doug Walker	2002
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Vitamin String Quartet	April 8, 2003
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Dark One Lite	November 16, 2004
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Sweet Little Band	2006
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Dennis Caplinger	November 2009
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Dan Mylotte	2009
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Deep Schrott	2011
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Piano Tribute Players	February 14, 2012
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star	June 26, 2012
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Yoga Pop Ups	July 3, 2012
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Denny Freeman	October 16, 2012
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Music Box Mania	October 28, 2014
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Arlen Roth	September 2015
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Lullaby Baby Trio	September 2016
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Frankie's Jazz Trio	February 3, 2017
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	8-Bit Misfits	May 12, 2017
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Gero Koerner Trio	2017
i	Knocking on Heaven's Door	Uriel	November 6, 2018
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	8 Bit Arcade	April 3, 2019
i	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Simon James	December 2019

Nebeská brána written by Petr Kalandra Czech

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Nebeská brána	Petr Kalandra & Blues Session	1993	First release
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Děda Mládek Illegal Band	2002
Nebeská brána	Jakub Smolík	November 2004

Knockin' on Heaven's Door [Dunblane Tribute] written by Ted Christopher English With the consent of Bob Dylan, Ted Christopher wrote a new verse for "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in memory of the schoolchildren and teacher killed in the Dunblane school massacre.

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Knockin' on Heaven's Door [Dunblane Tri…	Dunblane	1996	First release

Olen jäänyt oven taa written by Pertti Reponen Finnish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Olen jäänyt oven taa	Aimo Jaara	1976	First release

Knock knock ouvre-toi porte d'or written by Hugues Aufray French

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Knock knock ouvre-toi porte d'or	Hugues Aufray	1995	First release
		Knock knock ouvre-toi porte du ciel	Hugues Aufray en duo avec Bernard Lavilliers	October 26, 2009

Frappe aux portes du paradis written by Eddy Mitchell French

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Frappe aux portes du paradis	Eddy Mitchell	November 23, 2009	First release

Roffel op 'e himeldoar written by Baukje Wytsma, Harmen Wind, Jan Tekstra Frisian

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Roffel op 'e himeldoar	Kim Stolker, Twarres, Ernst Langhout , Johan Keus, Jan Tekstra, Reina Rodina, Die Twa, Raynaud Ritsma, Mink, Three-ality, Meindert Talma, Tsead Bruinja	2010	First release

Herman's Door written by Nina Hagen German

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Herman's Door	Nina Hagen & The Wild Romance	December 1979	First release

Knockin' on your Portemonnaie written by Otto R., Bernd Witthüser German

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Knockin' on your Portemonnaie	Otto & Bärnelli	1981	First release

Chlopfe a's Himmels-Tor written by Toni Vescoli German

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Chlopfe a's Himmels-Tor	Toni Vescoli	1993	First release

Ai miei figli che dirò written by Paolo Amerigo Cassella Italian

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Ai miei figli che dirò	Adriano Pappalardo	1975	First release

Nok, nok, nå er'e nok written by Tom Karlsen Norwegian

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Nok, nok, nå er'e nok	Oslo Rhythm'n Blues Ensemble	2002	First release

Batendo na Porta do Céu written by Zé Ramalho Portuguese

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Batendo na Porta do Céu	Zé Ramalho	1997	First release

Knabbar på himelens dörr written by Kal P. Dal Swedish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Knabbar på himelens dörr	Kal P. Dal	1978	First release

Till 7:e himlen i 11:e timmen written by Lars Larholm Swedish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Till 7:e himlen i 11:e timmen	Lars Larholm med vänner	2013	First release

טוק טוק טוק על דלתי מרום written by Meir Ariel Hebrew (not verified yet)

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		טוק טוק טוק על דלתי מרום	Meir Ariel	2002	Unverified

Andelu chor written by Michal Svaty Czech (not verified yet)

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Andelu chor	Pavel Landovsky	2013	Unverified

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