John Henry by Furry Lewis Song Details

"John Henry" by Furry Lewis had its release date on April 30, 1961. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:49, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The song is number 1 out of 10 in Back on My Feet Again (Remastered Edition) by Furry Lewis. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Based on our statistics, John Henry's popularity is not that popular right now. Although the tone can be danceable to some, this track does projects more of a negative sound rather than a postive one.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of John Henry by Furry Lewis is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 128 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

B Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-13.362 dB
Acousticness
89%
Danceability
41%
Energy
24%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
16%
Loudness
78%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
9%

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ISRC
US38Y2524203
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records