Tina Turner - "Drenched in my sweat, I took my shirt off and sang in my bra" - Calibrations, images of speed of River Deep, Mountain High

Song #33 on the Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time is called River Deep, Mountain High. This song is performed by Ike and Tina Turner. The Rolling Stone has an article on the song found at http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595878/river_deep__mountain_high, which features this passage:

"I must have sung that 500,000 times," Tina later said. "I was drenched with sweat. I had to take my shirt off and stand there in my bra to sing."

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title - River Deep, Mountain High
performer=The late, great, misunderstood Ike and the still-too sexy-at-whatever-age Turner
beats calibrated per trial=540
mean time per trial= 3 minutes, 20.7 seconds
mean speed/average tempo=156.9 beats per minute
average beat=0.382 seconds.




Ian Schneider
Sarah Anthony
James C. C. Manning
March 27, 2008