{"id":3592719,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592719/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-18T15:20:48-08:00","show":65411,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=json","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"}