| Cuckoo Song | |
| Cover: | Cuckoo song (Mike Oldfield).jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Mike Oldfield with Les Penning |
| A-Side: | Cuckoo Song |
| B-Side: | Pipe Tune |
| Recorded: | 1977 |
| Genre: | Folk |
| Label: | Virgin Records |
| Producer: | Mike Oldfield |
"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.[1]