Why Was I Born? by Bobby Timmons Song Details

On January 1, 1962, the song "Why Was I Born?" was released by Bobby Timmons. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:50, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. There are a total of 8 in the song's album "Sweet And Soulful Sounds". In this album, this song's track order is #8. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. Based on our statistics, Why Was I Born?'s popularity is unknown right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With Why Was I Born? by Bobby Timmons having a BPM of 136 with a half-time of 68 BPM and a double-time of 272 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

F Major is the music key of this track. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-15.993 dB
Acousticness
51%
Danceability
41%
Energy
49%
Instrumentalness
5%
Liveness
13%
Loudness
73%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
82%

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ISRC
USFI86201310
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records