Sloop John B. by Joseph Spence Song Details

Joseph Spence's ' "Sloop John B." was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1972. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:31, 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 Joseph Spence's "Good Morning Mr. Walker" album is number 19 out of 21. Based on our statistics, Sloop John B.'s popularity is not that popular right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Sloop John B. by Joseph Spence to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 137 BPM, a half-time of 68BPM, and a double-time of 274 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 5/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of F♯ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 2B. So, the perfect camelot match for 2B would be either 2B or 3A. While, 3B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 11B and a high energy boost can either be 4B or 9B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 2A or 1B will give you a low energy drop, 5B would be a moderate one, and 12B or 7B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 11A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-20.512 dB
Acousticness
71%
Danceability
58%
Energy
17%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
71%
Loudness
66%
Speechiness
33%
Valence
70%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records