Song #19 on The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs List with Meanspeed graphs: Elvis Presley, "Hound Dog," mean speed=179.2 bpm:

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Song #19 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest List is Hound Dog by Elvis Presley.

The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

18. Maybellene, Chuck Berry

19. Hound Dog, Elvis Presley

20. Let It Be, The Beatles

We measured the speed of Hound Dog by Elvis Presley--using the identical method described in the section of the same name at http://meanspeed.com/

The results--
number of beats=380
mean time=2 minutes, 7.25 seconds
meanspeed=178.2 beats per minute
meanspace=0.337 seconds per beat


Ian Schneider
meanspeed.com
May 19, 2007