Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3603839/?format=api
{ "id": 3603839, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603839/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T12:12:08-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d2f77504-160e-424c-a6bd-a0d28de55de8/10228684152-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d2f77504-160e-424c-a6bd-a0d28de55de8/10228684152-250.jpg", "song": "With a Little Help From My Friends", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "96a5f2b7-4dd2-4f6e-98d8-a0697865d08e", "artist": "Joe Cocker", "artist_ids": [ "32f2d6bd-c22b-42cf-a7bc-0c4b48cd2bcb" ], "album": "With a Little Help From My Friends", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "a0d14120-566a-31b8-8fb5-eeec153bef5b", "labels": [ "Interscope Records" ], "label_ids": [ "2182a316-c4bd-4605-936a-5e2fac52bdd2" ], "release_date": "1969-04-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "When Joe Cocker died in 2014 at age 70, Paul McCartney issued this statement regarding his version of this song: \"It was just mind-blowing, totally turned the song into a soul anthem, and I was forever grateful for him for having done that.\"\n--\nDenny Cordell produced the album with an early-career Tony Visconti helping out. While trying to get Cocker's classic primal scream on \"With A Little Help From My Friends,\" Denny Cordell had the singer belt it out a whopping 25 times, risking a vocal cord explosion. \"I never saw anyone be so cruel to another human being,\" Tony Visconti recalled to The Guardian.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }