Cuckoo (Monks song)

"Cuckoo"
Single by The Monks
B-side I Can't Get Over You
Released 1966
Format 7"
Recorded 1966
Label Polydor
Writer(s) Gary Burger
Larry Spangler
David Havlicek
Roger Johnston
Thomas Shaw
The Monks singles chronology
"Complication"
(1966)		 "Cuckoo"
(1966)		 "Love Can Tame the Wild"
(1967)

"Cuckoo" is a single by The Monks. The B-side is "I Can't Get Over You". It marked a softening of their sound, having been pressured to make something more commercial to garner more success. [1] The Monks had disdain towards this single (especially "Cuckoo", which Gary Burger once described as "a dog's ass") but have recently warmed to it after observing favorable audience reaction to it.

References

  1. ^ (1997) Album notes for Black Monk Time by The Monks, p. 10 [CD Booklet]. Burbank, California: Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings (9 43112-2).
Albums
Singles
"There She Walks" b/w "Boys Are Boys" (1964, as the 5 Torquays)  · "Complication" b/w "Oh, How To Do Now" (1965) · "Cuckoo" b/w "I Can't Get Over You" (1966)  · "Love Can Tame the Wild" b/w "He Went Down to the Sea" (1967)  · "Pretty Suzanne" b/w "Monk Time" (2009)
Film
Tributes
Silver Monk Time (2006)  · "Monk Time" b/w "Higgle-dy Piggle-dy" (2006, single from Silver Monk Time)  · "Drunken Maria" b/w "Monk Chant" (2009, single from Silver Monk Time)