Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3571422/?format=api
{ "id": 3571422, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571422/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T13:40:38-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "On the Radio", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "f84adef5-2dd3-46f7-94e5-bca679f7c9db", "artist": "Donna Summer", "artist_ids": [ "b60527cc-54f3-4bbe-a01b-dcf34c95ae14" ], "album": "On the Radio", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "11e3d1b9-3686-4b94-9446-fb8d0ffceb67", "labels": [ "Island" ], "label_ids": [ "dfd92cd3-4888-46d2-b968-328b1feb2642" ], "release_date": "1979-11-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder co-wrote this song and Moroder produced it.\n--\nSummer had a difficult time coming up with the lyrics until another singer inadvertently gave her a jolt of inspiration. She told NPR's Fresh Air in 2003: \"I was at the piano, and Stephen Bishop's record was on the top of the piano, and I looked at the record, and I know Stephen, and we've written together, and I'm like, you know, how would Stephen say this? What line would he come up - he's so clever. And all of a sudden, this one line came to me, and it was 'must have fallen out of a hole in your old brown overcoat,' and it was like a lightning bolt. OK, that's it. I knew who the person was. I knew who the person was in the song, I knew who she needed to be, I knew what she was going through, I knew what had to be said. And so as soon as I got all of the personal information on the character, I was able to go into the studio, stand on the microphone and sign the song pretty much verbatim, the way you hear it.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }