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"Cuckoo Song"
Single by Mike Oldfield with Les Penning
A-side"Cuckoo Song"
B-side"Pipe Tune"
Released25 November 1977 (1977-11-25)
Recorded1977
GenreFolk
Length6:40
LabelVirgin Records
Songwriter(s)Michael Praetorius
Producer(s)Mike Oldfield
Mike Oldfield singles chronology
"William Tell Overture"
(1977)
"Cuckoo Song"
(1977)
"Take Four"
(1978)

"Cuckoo Song" is a musical piece written by Michael Praetorius (1571 – 1621). In 1977 British musician Mike Oldfield released an arrangement of the piece as a single.

Mike Oldfield single

Mike Oldfield released a version of "Cuckoo Song" in 1977 as a non-album single on Virgin Records. The B side, a musical precursor of Incantations and which could almost be a part of it, is an original composition by Oldfield. The single (in a plain white sleeve) was included as a free bonus when the double LP Incantations was released in 1978. It is one of the many non-album singles which Oldfield released in the 1970s. "Cuckoo Song" also features Les Penning.

Track listing

  1. "Cuckoo Song" – 3:13
  2. "Pipe Tune" – 3:27

References

  1. "Singles". Amadian. Archived from the original on 2012-06-20. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
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