Average Tempo Theory: The Most Famous Waltz and the Speed of Sincerity- "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" - Marilyn Monroe to JFK, May 1962, NY, NY

The speed graphs above, measured 10 times in contiguous 3 beat groups are a visual reprenstation of the speed of the live performance of "Happy Birthday To You" by Marilyn Monroe to President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, at Madison Square Garden, New York, New York on the President's 45th birthday, May 28, 1962.

The MeanFrequencies for "Happy Birthday To You" by Marilyn Monroe are:

mean speed=60.3 beats per minute.
mean emotion accordig to meanspeed music theory=sincerity.
average beat=1.005 beat per second.
mean space=9950 milliseseconds per beat.
mean space=3980 milliseconds per measure.
mean slow phase=1.005 cycles per second.
corresponding =257.280 Hertz, 70.5 cents above B3=246.942 Hertz, 29.5 cents below C4=261.626 Hertz.

Ian Schneider
December 16, 2007
Kendall Park

"Turn On The Radio, Daddy" - written and recorded by Kathy Hussey - mean speed=144 bpm - Speed Analysis with 2 and three dimensional graphs

"Turn On The Radio Daddy" is an awesomely terrific waltz available on iTunes.com and CDBaby.com.

Many people say: 'I had never heard of Kathy - but after 40 seconds of listening to this song I was in tears. Kathy sounds as a popular musical professional bathed in the music of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and well, she simply takes where they have come from and added to it.'

As this is probably a song many of our readers have not heard, we offer our "full-out" guarantee: if you download the 99¢ song by Kathy and do not like it, contact us at meanspeed@gmail.com and we will reimburse your money. So said, once you hear the 30 second clip on iTunes.com, we do not think you will be disappointed. Kathy is a singer-songwriter whose home page is found at
http://www.kathyhussey.com/.

Kathy Hussey is a graduate of Hamilton College.

Through the calibration excellence of James C.C. Manning, Meanspeed Music synthesized this speed summary in order to create the graphs above:





James C.C. Manning
Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music
August 1, 2007