Db major · Camelot 3B · 144 BPM
Rock and Roll All Nite
by KISS
- 144
- BPM
- Db major
- Key
- 3B
- Camelot
- 66
- Danceability
- 6
- Acousticness
The session that produced "Rock and Roll All Nite" began with an order from Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart, who pulled Kiss off the road in February 1975 and told the band to record a follow-up to Hotter than Hell, an album that had stalled on the charts. One of his instructions was to compose an anthem, something he felt the group needed. Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons had written the song while the band was still in Los Angeles during the Hotter than Hell Tour, taking inspiration from the Slade song "Mama Weer All Crazee Now". Simmons wrote the verses, borrowing parts of an earlier composition called "Drive Me Wild", while Stanley wrote the chorus. It was one of two tracks recorded toward the end of the tour, before the band returned to Electric Lady Studios for the proper Dressed to Kill sessions.
For the choruses, the band and Bogart brought in a large group of outside contributors to sing and clap, among them members of the Kiss road crew, studio musicians, and Peter Criss's wife Lydia. Some road crew members used their jacket zippers to create sound.
Released in 1975 as the first single from Dressed to Kill, the studio version peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard singles chart. A live version issued that October fared far better, reaching No. 12 in early 1976. The original studio recording has no guitar solo.
Rock and Roll All Nite runs at 144 BPM, the tempo of dubstep and trap counted in half time, and hardstyle. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.67 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 417 ms. It is in Db major, Camelot 3B, which shares its notes with Bb minor and mixes cleanly with F# major and Ab major.
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