Peter & the Wolf ("Weird Al" Yankovic & Wendy Carlos album) Peter & the Wolf ("Weird Al" Yankovic & Wendy Carlos album) Peter & the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals – Part II is a studio album by American parody singer-songwriter and musician "Weird Al" Yankovic and composer and keyboardist Wendy Carlos, released in October 1988 on CBS Records. It features a comical adaptation of the orchestral works "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev and "The Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns. The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children at the 31st awards. Carlos was invited by CBS Records to work on the project
The Orchestral Tubular Bells Town Hall in September 1974 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This was shown on a British television station, BBC Two, with Steve Hillage (of Gong) playing guitar. Oldfield later added his playing to the album by overdubbing his acoustic guitar at Worcester Cathedral. "The Orchestral Tubular Bells" was not the only Mike Oldfield album that was orchestrated at the time, David Bedford also wrote the score for Oldfield's second album, "Hergest Ridge". However, "The Orchestral Hergest Ridge" was never released to the public as an album. Excerpts from "The Orchestral Hergest Ridge" were also featured in the 1979 NASA film,