Hush Little Baby by Jean Ritchie Song Details

Jean Ritchie's ' "Hush Little Baby" was released on its scheduled release date, March 18, 2004. With This song being less than two minutes long, at 1:01, we are fairly confident that this song is not explicit and is safe for all ages. Based on the duration of this song, this song duration is much smaller than the average song duration. The track order of this song in Jean Ritchie's "Mountain Hearth & Home" album is number 10 out of 37. Based on our statistics, Hush Little Baby'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 Hush Little Baby by Jean Ritchie to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 144 BPM, a half-time of 72BPM, and a double-time of 288 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, jogging or cycling, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of E♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 5B. So, the perfect camelot match for 5B would be either 5B or 6A. While, 6B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 2B and a high energy boost can either be 7B or 12B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 5A or 4B will give you a low energy drop, 8B would be a moderate one, and 3B or 10B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 2A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-21.371 dB
Acousticness
98%
Danceability
46%
Energy
4%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
7%
Loudness
64%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
62%

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