Barbara Allen by Jean Ritchie Song Details

"Barbara Allen" by Jean Ritchie had its release date on January 1, 1960. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The song is number 10 out of 11 in British Traditional Ballads (Child Ballads) in the Southern Mountains, Vol. 1 by Jean Ritchie. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Barbara Allen is not that popular right now. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Barbara Allen by Jean Ritchie is Adagio (slowly with great expression), since this song has a tempo of 74 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 B Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-13.097 dB
Acousticness
89%
Danceability
16%
Energy
2%
Instrumentalness
2%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
78%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
4%

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ISRC
USSF16030110
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records