G major · Camelot 9B · 99 BPM
Tired of Being Alone
by Al Green
- 99
- BPM
- G major
- Key
- 9B
- Camelot
- 78
- Danceability
- 34
- Acousticness
Al Green wrote "Tired of Being Alone" in late 1968, intending it for his 1969 album Green Is Blues. The first recording ran into problems, and the song was postponed for production. When he tried again, it was altered and perfected, and it finally surfaced on the 1971 album Al Green Gets Next to You.
Willie Mitchell produced and recorded the song at Hi Records, mixing it with Terry Manning. The finished record reached number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number seven on the Soul Singles Chart in 1971, and Billboard ranked it the number 12 song of that year. Rolling Stone placed Green's version at number 293 on its 2004 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song stayed with Green long after its release. In 1973 he performed it with Chicago on the TV special Chicago in the Rockies, and that recording appeared in 2002 as a bonus track on the remastered version of Chicago VI. By then Green was already an established figure in Memphis soul, working closely with the city's most notable R&B musicians on a run of early 1970s hits.
Tired of Being Alone runs at 99 BPM, the tempo of hip-hop, R&B and reggaeton. In classical terms it sits in andante territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.42 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 606 ms. It is in G major, Camelot 9B, which shares its notes with E minor and mixes cleanly with C major and D major.
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