Artist & Tune
Version by Bob Dylan
Version by Ian & Sylvia 1963 (first release)
Version by Odetta 1965
Version by Judy Collins in 1965
Version by Sandy Denny 1972
Version by Joan Baez
Version by Nickel Creek
Version by Zee Avi
Version by Elvis Presley
Version by The Kingston Trio
Version by The Pozo-Seco Singers
Version by Glenn Yarbrough
Video by Timothée Chalamet 2025 on SNL
Reference
About the Song
The song was probably written in 1962 and was included on a demo tape he sent to his music publisher in that year.
This is a list of covers: https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/8614/versions#nav-entity
His only official release of the song is from a live concert recording of the song at New York's Town Hall venue in 1963. It was released on "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 2" compilation LP in 1971.
The song draws on a medieval poem:
Westron wynde, when wyll thow blow
The smalle rayne downe can rayne?
Cryst yf my love were in my armys,
And I yn my bed agayne!
that in modern English is roughly:
Western Wind, when wilt thou blow?
That the small rain down can rain
Christ, that my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westron_Wynde
https://interestingliterature.com/2016/12/a-short-analysis-of-the-medieval-poem-westron-wynde/
The Joan Baez track is from a 1963 concert in Forest Hills NY.
The track on the 2012 Dylan tribute album "Chimes of Freedom" - a fund-raiser for Amnesty International is by Malaysian singer songwriter Zee Avi.