"Cuckoo Song" | |||||||||
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Single by Mike Oldfield with Les Penning | |||||||||
A-side | "Cuckoo Song" | ||||||||
B-side | "Pipe Tune" | ||||||||
Released | 25 November 1977 | ||||||||
Format | 7" vinyl | ||||||||
Recorded | 1977 | ||||||||
Genre | Folk | ||||||||
Length | 6:40 | ||||||||
Label | Virgin Records | ||||||||
Writer(s) | Michael Praetorius | ||||||||
Producer(s) | Mike Oldfield | ||||||||
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"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 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.