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Take Four

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Format
  
12" Vinyl

Genre
  
Folk

Artist
  
Mike Oldfield

Label
  
Virgin Records

Recorded
  
1973 – 1978

"Take Four" (1978)
  
"Guilty" (1979)

Release date
  
25 November 1977

Producers
  
Mike Oldfield, Tom Newman

Released
  
1 December 1978 (1978-12-01)

Writer(s)
  
Traditional Robert Lucas Pearsall Tielman Susato

Similar
  
Mike Oldfield albums, Other albums

"Take Four" is a four-themed single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1978. It was Oldfield's first 12-inch single, and was available in white vinyl.

Contents

The single featured two of Oldfield's previous singles, "Portsmouth" and "In Dulci Jubilo", along with the finale from Tubular Bells, "The Sailor's Hornpipe", and a new track, "Wrekorder Wrondo" that may be based on the song "Cum decore" by Tielman Susato. Tracks 1, 2 and 3 feature Les Penning on recorders

Charts

It charted at number 72 in the UK Singles Chart.

Track listing

  1. "Portsmouth" – 2:04
  2. "In Dulci Jubilo" – 2:51
  3. "Wrekorder Wrondo" – 2:31
  4. "The Sailor's Hornpipe" – 1:36

Songs

1Portsmouth2:02
2In Dulce Jubilo2:49
3Wrekorder Wrondo2:31

References

Take Four Wikipedia