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According to Thomas Goldsmith of The Raleigh News & Observer, "The Cuckoo" is an interior monologue where the singer "relates his desires — to gamble, to win, to regain love's affection." [3] The song is featured in the E.L. Doctorow book The March. A soldier suffering from a metal spike stuck in his head sings verses from the song.
Wessex dialect of Middle English. " Sumer is icumen in " is the incipit of a medieval English round or rota of the mid-13th century; it is also known variously as the Summer Canon and the Cuckoo Song . The line translates approximately to "Summer has come" or "Summer has arrived". [2] The song is written in the Wessex dialect of Middle English.
Common cuckoo song, Kaluga region, Russia. The duo's "cuckoo" theme, entitled "Dance of The Cuckoos", was composed by Roach musical director Marvin Hatley as the on-the-hour chime for the Roach studio radio station, then known as KFVD. Laurel heard the tune on the station, and asked Hatley to use it as the Laurel and Hardy theme song.
"Cuckoo" is a song performed by Israeli singer Netta. The song was released as a digital download on 16 May 2020 as the fifth and final single from her debut extended play Goody Bag . [1] It was written by Bert Elliott, Krysta Marie Youngs and Netta Barzilai , and produced by J. R. Rotem and Elliott.
Friday Afternoons is a collection of twelve song settings by Benjamin Britten, composed 1933–35 for the pupils of Clive House School, Prestatyn, Wales where his brother, Robert, was headmaster. [1] Two of the songs, "Cuckoo" and "Old Abram Brown", were featured in the film Moonrise Kingdom. [2] ". A New Carol" was included in the soundtrack ...
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 was first performed by The Sandpipers on the soundtrack of the 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo starring Liza Minnelli. The Sandpipers also included the song on their 1970 album, Come Saturday Morning. In 1970, "Come Saturday Morning" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, losing to "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from ...
Cucurrucucú paloma. " Cucurrucucú paloma " (Spanish for Coo-coo dove) is a Mexican huapango -style song written by Tomás Méndez in 1954. [1] The title is an onomatopeic reference to the characteristic call of the mourning dove, which is evoked in the refrain. The lyrics allude to love sickness .