Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3598835/?format=api
{ "id": 3598835, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598835/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T13:30:57-08:00", "show": 65533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65533/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800207.us.archive.org/15/items/mbid-bdc5249f-e041-33ab-910d-2c26d55bc091/mbid-bdc5249f-e041-33ab-910d-2c26d55bc091-900088355_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800207.us.archive.org/15/items/mbid-bdc5249f-e041-33ab-910d-2c26d55bc091/mbid-bdc5249f-e041-33ab-910d-2c26d55bc091-900088355_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Ob‐La‐Di, Ob‐La‐Da", "track_id": "8b4d30a8-e40d-3361-b981-f3d419399da3", "recording_id": "5118f7b4-eafc-491a-9158-ee646dff2236", "artist": "The Beatles", "artist_ids": [ "b10bbbfc-cf9e-42e0-be17-e2c3e1d2600d" ], "album": "The Beatles", "release_id": "bdc5249f-e041-33ab-910d-2c26d55bc091", "release_group_id": "055be730-dcad-31bf-b550-45ba9c202aa3", "labels": [ "Capitol Records" ], "label_ids": [ "abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73" ], "release_date": "1987-08-25", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The title comes from a reggae band called Jimmy Scott and his Obla Di Obla Da Band. Says Paul McCartney, \"A fella who used to hang around the clubs used to say in a Jamaican accent, \"Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on,\" and he got annoyed when I did a song of it, 'cause he wanted a cut. I said, 'Come on, Jimmy, it's just an expression.\"\n--\nAccording to the New York Times, the Desmond in the opening lyric is a reference to Jamaican music pioneer Desmond Dekker.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }