Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3592719/?format=api
{ "id": 3592719, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592719/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:20:48-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "f3d663ee-a6ae-442e-9300-d056f87fed93", "artist": "Carl Carlton", "artist_ids": [ "48b66d59-647d-42a9-b7a5-55abd5fca7ae" ], "album": "She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked) / This Feeling’s Rated X‐Tra", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "ba57a465-b9ab-37b7-91c1-4b5d308524e7", "labels": [ "20th Century-Fox Records" ], "label_ids": [ "360f0149-5510-400b-a281-cb2d735f9f8e" ], "release_date": "1981-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "R & B singer Carl Carlton died last Sunday at age 72.\n\nBorn May 21, 1953, in Detroit, Carlton began his music career in the mid-1960s under the name \"Little Carl\" Carlton, inviting a comparison to Stevie Wonder, with whom he shared a similar vocal style.\nHis 1974 disco-inflected remake of \"Everlasting Love\" reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, bringing him mainstream success and a lasting favorite.\n\nBut it was the 1981 single \"She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)\" that became Carlton's signature song, earning him a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance and later gold album status. The track has remained culturally resonant, accumulating millions of streams, being widely sampled, and appearing in films and television soundtracks.\n--\nWatch a live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8K5EYXGcvM", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }