Whirly-Bird by Count Basie Orchestra Song Details

On 1958, the song "Whirly-Bird" was released by Count Basie Orchestra. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:52, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. There are a total of 11 in the song's album "The Atomic Mr Basie". In this album, this song's track order is #7. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, Whirly-Bird's popularity is below average in popularity right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With Whirly-Bird by Count Basie Orchestra having a BPM of 132 with a half-time of 66 BPM and a double-time of 264 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

A♭ Major is the music key of this track. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 4B. So, the perfect camelot match for 4B would be either 4B or 5A. While, 5B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 1B and a high energy boost can either be 6B or 11B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 4A or 3B will give you a low energy drop, 7B would be a moderate one, and 2B or 9B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 1A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-10.579 dB
Acousticness
73%
Danceability
50%
Energy
54%
Instrumentalness
76%
Liveness
12%
Loudness
82%
Speechiness
9%
Valence
85%

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ISRC
GBAYE5800089
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records