The Mamas & the Papas · Deliver
Dedicated to the One I Love
Dedicated to the One I Love is in G major at 136.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
137 BPM · Allegromedian of 140 analyses · 122.8–139.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 140people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 439.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.01dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.588Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.959Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 77% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 122.8 to 139.6 BPM.
At 136.5 BPM one beat lasts 439.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 109.9 ms and a dotted eighth 329.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 273. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.01 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.588 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in G major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with G major
Each of these differs from G major by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 137 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1758.2 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 879.1 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 659.3 | 1.52 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 439.6 | 2.28 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 293 | 3.41 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 329.7 | 3.03 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 219.8 | 4.55 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 146.5 | 6.83 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 164.8 | 6.07 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 109.9 | 9.1 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.3 | 13.65 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.9 | 18.2 |
Half time 68.3 BPM · double time 273 BPM. Every row is one beat (439.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Uncle John’s BandGrateful DeadG major137BPM
- Got to Get You Into My LifeThe BeatlesG major137BPM
- Cherche encoreCéline DionG major136BPM
- All Day and All of the NightThe KinksG major137BPM
- Father and SonCat StevensG major136BPM
- Morning GloryOasisG major137BPM
- From This Moment OnShania Twain feat. Bryan WhiteG major136BPM
- The Boy in the BubblePaul SimonG major136BPM
- Hold OnGreen DayG major136BPM
- Little SavageElvis Costello & The AttractionsG major136BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 137 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 137 BPMG major at 130–139 BPMThe Mamas & the Papas
MusicBrainz collapses 63 recording ids into this one. Recording id ec83c208-b70c-445a-acd5-fe2f9f02b304.