Foxy Lady
by Jimi Hendrix
- 98
- BPM
- F# major
- Key
- 2B
- Camelot
- 50
- Danceability
- 7
- Acousticness
Reprise Records released "Foxy Lady" in the US in December 1967 as the third single from the Jimi Hendrix Experience, one month before their second album. Reprise changed the spelling to "Foxey Lady". The B-side was "Hey Joe". Hendrix's albums sold well, but the early singles did not, and this one peaked at number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100. In Germany, Polydor pressed it with "Manic Depression" on the other side. It never charted.
The song had first appeared on the band's debut album, Are You Experienced, earlier in 1967. Hendrix biographer Harry Shapiro thinks the lyrics were inspired by Heather Taylor, who later married Roger Daltrey of the Who. Faye Pridgon, a girlfriend of Hendrix in the mid-1960s, has also been suggested. Hendrix himself said he did not approach women as directly as the words made it sound. Before the recording, the group had no ending, and bassist Noel Redding claimed that finishing on the last IV chord was his idea.
It became one of the few songs played by every Hendrix lineup, the Experience, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, the Band of Gypsys and the Cry of Love touring group. Live versions turned up on Live at Monterey, Live at Woodstock and Band of Gypsys 2.
Foxy Lady runs at 98 BPM, the tempo of hip-hop, R&B and reggaeton. In classical terms it sits in andante territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.45 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 612 ms. It is in F# major, Camelot 2B, which shares its notes with Eb minor and mixes cleanly with B major and Db major.
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