{"id":3562323,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3562323/?format=json","airdate":"2025-10-07T10:43:49-07:00","show":64771,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64771/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/fc14f17d-bfb1-4fd4-8885-9b10063e17f0/9701133495-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/fc14f17d-bfb1-4fd4-8885-9b10063e17f0/9701133495-250.jpg","song":"The Fez","track_id":null,"recording_id":"9118f851-e818-4c52-bbd8-a72524456629","artist":"Steely Dan","artist_ids":["e01c3376-15fa-40d7-b747-5f219bdefdd7"],"album":"The Royal Scam","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"586013b7-6cb0-39d4-b3cc-702b665fd830","labels":["MCA Records"],"label_ids":["46a3941a-c810-47a1-974f-955effec4d09"],"release_date":"1976-05-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"#454 on the countdown of listeners' favorite albums of all time...\n--\nDonate $10 a month or more and receive that alliterative \"big beautiful bag\" in addition to your regular thank you gifts: https://www.kexp.org/donate/\n--\nThis is the only Steely Dan song with a third credited writer, Paul Griffin, who also plays organ on the song. In a 2000 interview, Donald Fagen said, \"The Fez was recorded using a rhythm chart but there were a few bars missing and Paul Griffin, the keyboard player on the day, came up with a nice little melody, so we felt we should include him in the writer credits.\"","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}