Play Ray by Lou Donaldson Song Details

Lou Donaldson's ' "Play Ray" was released on its scheduled release date, 1958. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:31, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The song is number 4 out of 6 in Blues Walk by Lou Donaldson. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Play Ray is average in popularity right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Play Ray by Lou Donaldson is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 78 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of E♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 5B. So, the perfect camelot match for 5B would be either 5B or 6A. While, 6B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 2B and a high energy boost can either be 7B or 12B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 5A or 4B will give you a low energy drop, 8B would be a moderate one, and 3B or 10B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 2A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-17.339 dB
Acousticness
79%
Danceability
70%
Energy
21%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
9%
Loudness
71%
Speechiness
6%
Valence
66%

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ISRC
USBN28700276
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records