Goodnight, Irene by Lead Belly Song Details

Lead Belly's ' "Goodnight, Irene" was released on its scheduled release date, April 1, 1997. With This song being less than two minutes long, at 1:54, we are fairly confident that this song is not explicit and is safe for all ages. Based on the duration of this song, this song duration is much smaller than the average song duration. The track order of this song in Various Artists's "Inventing The Abbotts (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" album is number 6 out of 16. Based on our statistics, Goodnight, Irene's popularity is unknown right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Goodnight, Irene by Lead Belly to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 126 BPM, a half-time of 63BPM, and a double-time of 252 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. 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 6B. So, the perfect camelot match for 6B would be either 6B or 7A. While, 7B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 3B and a high energy boost can either be 8B or 1B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 6A or 5B will give you a low energy drop, 9B would be a moderate one, and 4B or 11B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 3A allows you to change the mood.

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