Poor Boy (Single Version) by Chicken Shack Song Details

Chicken Shack's ' "Poor Boy (Single Version)" was released on its scheduled release date, 1971. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:10, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. The track order of this song in Chicken Shack's "Imagination Lady (Bonus Tracks Edition)" album is number 8 out of 9. On top of that, United Kingdom appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, Poor Boy (Single Version) is currently not that popular. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Poor Boy (Single Version) by Chicken Shack to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 98 BPM, a half-time of 49BPM, and a double-time of 196 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

A Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 11B. So, the perfect camelot match for 11B would be either 11B or 12A. While, 12B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 8B and a high energy boost can either be 1B or 6B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 11A or 10B will give you a low energy drop, 2B would be a moderate one, and 9B or 4B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 8A allows you to change the mood.

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