{"id":3591125,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3591125/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-14T19:34:24-08:00","show":65379,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65379/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Soulful Christmas","track_id":null,"recording_id":"beedb594-8451-4d54-861e-58f814a4d928","artist":"James Brown","artist_ids":["20ff3303-4fe2-4a47-a1b6-291e26aa3438"],"album":"A Soulful Christmas","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"844f0ab7-fa28-3057-8721-7a2d4b88a465","labels":["Universal Records"],"label_ids":["590538e9-b183-4163-ab5a-171fb021ed12"],"release_date":"1968-11-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Christmas was always an emotional time for James Brown. In the early 90s, the soul legend started The James Brown Toy Giveaway, allowing him to play Santa to the needy. Every December, at the Imperial Theatre in Augusta, Georgia, a short distance from a bronze statue commemorating the man known as The Godfather Of Soul, James Brown Christmas gatherings would see him give away hundreds of presents to delighted children.\n\n“I remember when I was poor. I remember Christmas days when I had no toys at all.\"\n\nA James Brown Christmas is a soulful Christmas. The Godfather Of Soul kept on giving, right up until his death on Christmas Day 2006.\n\nRead here:\nhttps://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/james-brown-christmas-funky/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}