Why Was I Born? by Ella Fitzgerald Song Details

"Why Was I Born?" by Ella Fitzgerald had its release date on January 1, 1963. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:44, 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 song is number 12 out of 12 in Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book by Ella Fitzgerald. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Based on our statistics, Why Was I Born?'s popularity 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 Why Was I Born? by Ella Fitzgerald is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 134 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. 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 4B. So, the perfect camelot match for 4B would be either 4B or 5A. While, 5B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 1B and a high energy boost can either be 6B or 11B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 4A or 3B will give you a low energy drop, 7B would be a moderate one, and 2B or 9B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 1A allows you to change the mood.

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