Why by Leon Redbone Song Details

Leon Redbone's ' "Why" was released on its scheduled release date, 1981. 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 7 out of 11 in Branch To Branch by Leon Redbone. 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, Why is currently not that popular. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Why by Leon Redbone is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 97 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. 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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Popularity
Loudness
-26.99 dB
Acousticness
92%
Danceability
49%
Energy
2%
Instrumentalness
86%
Liveness
12%
Loudness
55%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
40%

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ISRC
USEW10000140
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records