20-75 by Willie Mitchell

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 7

Form: Verse → Chorus → Chorus → Verse → Solo → Verse → Chorus

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Verse 1

• F7 – C7 – D7 – G7
  IV7 – I7 – II7 – V7

Chorus 1

• C7 – F7 – C7 – G7 – F7 – C7
  I7 – IV7 – I7 – V7 – IV7 – I7

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo

• C7 – F7 – C7 – G7 – F7 – C7
  I7 – IV7 – I7 – V7 – IV7 – I7

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1247, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.