I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
Billy Taylor
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
3:40 July 2, 1968
BPM
121
Key
B♭ Major
Camelot
6B

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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free by Billy Taylor Song Details

On July 2, 1968, the song "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" was released by Billy Taylor. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:40, 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. The track order of this song in Billy Taylor's "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" album is number 2 out of 8. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free's popularity is not that popular 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 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free by Billy Taylor to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 121 BPM, a half-time of 60BPM, and a double-time of 242 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

B♭ Major is the music key of this track. 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
-10.403 dB
Acousticness
64%
Danceability
54%
Energy
77%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
72%
Loudness
83%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
84%

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ISRC
USCRB2400519
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records