Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3594801/?format=api
{ "id": 3594801, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594801/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-23T07:36:18-08:00", "show": 65455, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65455/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Telegram Sam", "track_id": "335fb47b-3f2c-488e-8bba-fac27247d379", "recording_id": "89db6ea5-b54f-4849-b509-4a304ebd23bd", "artist": "T. Rex", "artist_ids": [ "c842d29f-a297-48cd-bb71-4f77fd672b16" ], "album": "The Slider", "release_id": "8056c739-091e-4aeb-a5b3-f3ebd88c7da9", "release_group_id": "bf12c581-95c6-3cde-8ac2-713e803fc9e9", "labels": [ "Fat Possum Records" ], "label_ids": [ "76da5b47-69e8-49e7-a2fc-62d296b6224f" ], "release_date": "2010-10-26", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "T-Rex leader Marc Bolan wrote this as an ode to his manager, Tony Secunda. \"Telegram Sam\" was Bolan's affectionate nickname for his Secunda.\n\nOther people who show up in the song: \"Jungle-face Jake\" was Sid Walker, Secunda's black assistant, and \"Bobby\" is Bob Dylan.\n\nWhen Bolan referred to Secunda as his \"Main Man,\" it brought the phrase into popular culture.\n\nThis was the first single released on Marc Bolan's own T Rex Wax Co label.\n\nBauhaus covered this song In 1980. https://tinyurl.com/ysxaatc3", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }