Misirlou

Music written by: [Traditional]
Comments: A song originally from Asia Minor. Here, we have used the phoneticized version of the title used in Turkish and Greek, which means an Egyptian (female) in both languages. Nonetheless, versions also exist in other languages by Arab and Jewish performers.

The original author is unknown as is the root language version. Some sources credit Nicholas Roubanis as the originator though this is often disputed. Some think the song originated in the late 19th Century but it could be older.

There are many variations as is to be expected.
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Originals

Misirlou

Traditional

Adaptations

An adaptation is a musical work which uses most of the music or lyrics of another musical work.

Misirlou written by [Traditional]
- Μισιρλού written by Nicolas Roubanis Greek, Modern (1453-) 1927
  - Misirlou written by Fred Wise, Bob Russell, Milton Leeds English September 19, 1941
    - Yaralı Gönlüm written by Suat Sayın Turkish November 23, 2004
  - Misirlou written by Louis Hennevé French 1953
- Miserlou written by unknown author(s) Yiddish

Versions

Misirlou written by [Traditional] instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
i	Misirlou	Harry James and His Orchestra	September 26, 1941
i	Misirlou	Wayne King and His Orch.	November 14, 1941
i	Misirlou	Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra	1941
i	Misirlou	Arturo Arturos and His Cubano Rhythm	January 9, 1942
i	Misirlou	Jan August	August 1946
i	Misirlou	Leon Berry	April 1953
i	Misirlou	Charlie Ventura	1955
i	Misirlou	Billy Mure	November 1957
i	Misirlou	The Arthur Lyman Group	March 1958
i	Misirlou	The Don Baker Trio	November 1958
i	Misirlou	Korla Pandit	December 1958
i	Misirlou	Tommy Morgan	1958
i	Misirlou	John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra	March 1959
i	Misirlou	Esquivel and His Orchestra	1959
i	Misirlou	Jad Paul	1959
i	Misirlou	Terry Snyder and The All Stars	1959
i	Misirlou	The Arthur Murray Orchestra under the direction of Ray Carter	1959
i	Misirlou	Dick Contino & Eddie Layton	1959
i	Misirlou	Eddie Layton	1959
i	Misirlou	Winifred Atwell	1960
i	Misirlou	The Marty Paich Piano Quartet	1960
i	Misirlou	Dick Hyman and His Orchestra	1960
i	Misirlou	Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble	1960
i	Miserlou	Bob Bain	February 1961
i	Miserlou	Ferrante and Teicher	April 1961
i	Misirlou	Martin Denny	1961
i	Miserlou	Johnny & The Hurricanes	March 1962
i	Miserlou	Dick Dale and The Del-Tones	April 1962	Sampled by Black Eyed Peas
i	Miserlou	The Lively Ones	November 1962
i	Misirlou	Santo & Johnny	1962
i	Misirlou	Stanley Black and His Orchestra and Chorus	1962
i	Misirlou	The Challengers [US2]	January 1963
i	Misirlou	The Beach Boys	March 27, 1963
i	Misirlou	The Astronauts	June 1963
i	Miserlou	Aki Aleong and The Nobles	June 1963
i	Misirlou	Bill Justis	1963
i	Misirlou	Eddie Baxter	1963
i	Misirlou	The International Pop Orchestra	1963
i	Misirlou	Vince Guaraldi	1963
i	Misirlou	The Trashmen	January 1964
i	Misirlou	101 Strings	August 1964
i	Misirlou	Les Chaussettes Noires	1964
i	Misirlou	Ted Heath and His Music, Edmundo Ros and His Orchestra	1964
i	Misirlou	Buddy Merrill	April 1965
i	Misirlou	The Roemans	May 1965
i	Misirlou	Los Shain's	1965
i	Misirlou	Los Relámpagos	1965
i	Miserlou	Ronnie Aldrich and His Two Pianos	1966
i	Misirlou	King Richard's Fluegel Knights	1966
i	Misirlou	Kokee Band	1966
i	Misirlou	Joe Harnell	1966
i	Misirlou	The Fabulous Jokers [BE]	1966
i	Misirlou	Laurindo Almeida	1967
i	Misirlou	George Abdo and His "Flames of Araby" Orchestra	1975
i	Misirlou	Music Rama Band featuring John Flaherty	1976
i	Miserlou	Warren Lubich	1976
i	Misirlou	John Cordoni and His Big Band	1982
i	Misirlou	The Bobby Fuller Four	1984	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Misirlou	The Last Drive	1986
i	Misirlou	Laika & The Cosmonauts	1988
i	Misirlou	The Phil Woods Quintet + One	1990
i	Misirlou	Roger Williams [US1]	1990
i	Misirlou	Die Space Hobos	1992	Live
i	Miserlou	The Looney Tunes	1993
i	Misirlou	Danny Flores	1994	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Misirlou	The Surf Coasters	March 1, 1995
i	Misirlou (Theme to the Motion Picture 'Pulp Fiction')	Spaghetti Surfers	1995
i	Miserlou	Buck-O-Nine & Agent Orange	1996
i	Misirlou	California Guitar Trio	June 8, 1998
i	Misirlou	Tinfed	November 17, 1998
i	Misirlou	The James Sanders Trio	1999
i	Musurlum	De Amsterdam Klezmer Band	1999
i	Misirlou	Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble	2000
i	Misirlou	Swing of Sahara	2003	Live
i	Misirlou	Robin Sylar	March 16, 2004
i	Miserlou	Quadro Nuevo	2004
i	Misirlou	Jean-Pierre Danel	July 2006
i	Miserlou	The Thurston Lava Tube	2006
i	Misirlou	The Continentals	2006
i	The Motion Picture Medley (Peter Gunn/Theme from Good, Bad & Ugly/James Bond Theme/Mission Impossib…	The Charades [FI]	2006	Live
i	Misirlou	New Cool Collective	2007
i	Misirlou	The Rockhouse Brothers	2007
i	Misirlou	Vitamin String Quartet	December 23, 2008
i	Misirlou	The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain	2008	Live
i	Misirlou	Gangsta's Paradise	2009
i	Misirlou	The Nematoads	2009
i	Misirlou	Gürol Ağırbaş	September 3, 2010
i	Misirlou	Quatuor Ébène	2010
i	Misirlou	The Surf Dawgs	2010
i	Misirlou	Hammondarium	2010
i	Misirlou	Brad Davis	January 25, 2011
i	Misirlou	United Guitar Players	June 2011
i	Misirlou	Noël Akchoté	July 14, 2011
i	Misirlou (Theme from "Pulp Fiction")	2Cellos	July 19, 2011
i	Misirlou	Boygroupkillers	2011
i	Misirlou	Martin Cilia	2011
i	Misirlou	Positiva	2011
i	Misirlou	David Garrett	2012	Live
i	Miserlou	Quadro Nuevo & NDR Pops Orchestra	February 2013
i	Misirlou	Trevor Shoe	2014
i	Misirlou	Ben Woods	2014
i	Misirlou	Dr. Bontempi's Snake Oil Company	June 17, 2015
i	Misirlou	Big Surf	2015
i	Misirlou	The Pinxtones	June 23, 2016
i	Misirlou	Cobra Express	March 2018
i	Misirlou	Michael Watts	April 22, 2018
i	Hawaii Five-O Theme (Epic Metal Version)	Connor Engstrom	October 18, 2018
i	Misirlou	Bat!	May 10, 2019
i	Misirlou	Velocihamster	March 13, 2020	Unverified
i	Misirlou	Maria Karelas with Spyros Stamos and his Orch		Unverified
i	Misirlou	Os Megatons		Unverified
i	Misirlou	Staniša Stošić		Unverified

Μισιρλού written by Nicolas Roubanis Greek, Modern (1453-)

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
	Μισιρλού	Tetos Demetriades meta tis orhistras tou	1927	First release
	Μousourloum	Makis Patrinos	1931
	Misirlou	Nicolas Matthey and His Oriental Orchestra	1940
	Misirlou	Valente / Ros	1960
	Misirlou	Connie Francis	1965
	Μisirlou	Peter James [US1]	April 1966
	Μισιρλού	Sofia Vembo	1966
i	Misirlou	Coco Schumann (Coco Schumann)	January 23, 2009	Unverified
	Misirlou	Odessa-Projekt	2015
	Misirlou	The Deep Blue Orchestra		Unverified

Misirlou written by Fred Wise, Milton Leeds, Bob Russell English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Misirlou	Mitchell Ayres and His Fashions-In-Music - Vocal Refrain by Meredith Blake	September 19, 1941	First release
Misirlou	Woody Herman and His Orchestra	1941
Misirlou	Freddy Martin and His Orchestra featuring Barclay Allen, piano	1948
Misirlou	The Cardinals	February 1955
Misirlou	Teal Joy - Orchestra directed by Ted Steele	1957
Misirlou	Anita Darian	1959
Misirlou	Sylvie Mora, Arrangement and Orchestra conducted by Russell Garcia	1959
Miserlou	Frances Faye	1961
Misirlou	Chubby Checker	February 1962
Misirlou	Paul Anka	January 1963
Misirlou	Frankie Laine	February 1963
Misirlu	Jackie Washington [US]	1964
Misirlou	Connie Francis	1965
Misirlou	Agent Orange	1982
Miserlou	The Baltimores	1996
Misirlou	Carlos and The Bandidos	April 25, 2008
Misirlou	Booost	November 5, 2013
Misirlou	The Savage Hornets	2013
Misirlou	Jack White [US]	December 2014
Misirlou	Moscow Drug Club	2015
Miserlou	Perpetuum Jazzile	2016	A cappella