My Defenses Are Down by Howard Keel Song Details

Howard Keel's ' "My Defenses Are Down" was released on its scheduled release date, May 17, 1950. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:25. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. The song is number 10 out of 31 in Annie Get Your Gun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Expanded Edition] by Howard Keel, Betty Hutton, Judy Garland. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. In terms of popularity, My Defenses Are Down is currently not that popular. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of My Defenses Are Down by Howard Keel is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 93 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. This song can go great with yoga or pilates. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of F Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.316 dB
Acousticness
85%
Danceability
45%
Energy
33%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
19%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
12%
Valence
76%

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ISRC
UST1C0100052
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records