The Long Way Round by Gerry Rafferty Song Details

Gerry Rafferty's ' "The Long Way Round" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1971. 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 5 out of 25 in Can I Have My Money Back? by Gerry Rafferty. 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 Long Way Round's popularity is below average in popularity right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of The Long Way Round by Gerry Rafferty is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 135 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

This song is in the music key of G Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-10.344 dB
Acousticness
10%
Danceability
41%
Energy
48%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
17%
Loudness
83%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
57%

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ISRC
GBAJE7100756
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records