The Cuckoo by Jean Ritchie Song Details

Jean Ritchie's ' "The Cuckoo" was released on its scheduled release date, March 18, 2004. The duration of This song is about two minutes long, specifically at 2:25. This song does not appear to have any foul language. The Cuckoo's duration is considered a little bit shorter than the average duration of a typical track. The track order of this song in Jean Ritchie's "Mountain Hearth & Home" album is number 12 out of 37. The Cuckoo is not that popular right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of The Cuckoo by Jean Ritchie to be Lento (slowly) because the track has a tempo of 56 BPM, a half-time of 28BPM, and a double-time of 112 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of D Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-20.459 dB
Acousticness
98%
Danceability
48%
Energy
2%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
66%
Speechiness
6%
Valence
51%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records