The Joy of Living by Ewan MacColl Song Details

Ewan MacColl's 'The Joy of Living' had a release date set for 2010. 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 20 out of 20 in Black and White by Ewan MacColl. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, The Joy of Living's popularity is not that popular right now. Although the tone can be danceable to some, this track does projects more of a negative sound rather than a postive one.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of The Joy of Living by Ewan MacColl is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 122 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 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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Popularity
Loudness
-17.331 dB
Acousticness
90%
Danceability
56%
Energy
14%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
12%
Loudness
71%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
27%

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ISRC
GBCEJ0599786
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records