"Everything looks worse in black and white!" – KODACHROME – Paul Simon – meanspeed=136.3 beats per minute – speeds, graphs, ann6079′s YouTube video

Paul Simon sings – “If you took all the girls I knew when I was single, and put them all together for one night/ You know, they’d never match my sweet imagination, and everything looks worse in black & white!”

The YouTube presentation is courtesy of Sir Paul and

Added: July 29, 2007
From: ann6079








If you want to enter the BPM into your digital music player, you can
1) highlight the song,
2) press Control + “I” simultaneously,
3) go to the Info section,
4) fill in the number,
5) close.


speed summary, by Ian Schneider and James Manning -
song title=”Kodachrome”
performer=Paul Simon
composer=Paul Simon
trials calibrated=13
total time elapsed=44 minutes, 38. 9 seconds
beats per trial=468
average time per trial=3 minutes, 26.0 seconds
average beat=440 milliseconds
meanspeed=136.3 beats per minute
mean phase=2.27 cycles per second
mean pitch=581.5 hertz

Sir James Manning
Ian Schneider
Sarah Jane Bristol
August 28, 2008