{"id":3628448,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3628448/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-13T15:35:01-07:00","show":66170,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66170/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/f847cfef-3b07-4903-ab57-1a592b7d7b4c/9467398666-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/f847cfef-3b07-4903-ab57-1a592b7d7b4c/9467398666-250.jpg","song":"In the Stone","track_id":null,"recording_id":"861761ec-3c3f-4547-81b7-c4e0d5f8b3b5","artist":"Earth, Wind & Fire","artist_ids":["535afeda-2538-435d-9dd1-5e10be586774"],"album":"I Am","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"866e9d8e-200e-334c-8df6-9b8f8384bb22","labels":["CBS"],"label_ids":["b8d33bec-92cc-40d9-bd92-4eb089b401a9"],"release_date":"1979-07-16","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire wrote this with David Foster and Allee Willis. Foster is a very successful writer and producer whose hits include \"You'll See\" and \"Un-Break My Heart\"; Willis co-wrote Earth, Wind & Fire's hit \"September\" and much of the I Am album, including \"Boogie Wonderland.\"\n--\nThis was just a modest hit for Earth, Wind & Fire, but it was very big among their black fans. The song's co-writer Allee Willis, who wrote lyrics for the 2005 Broadway production of The Color Purple, said: \"The first day I ever met the cast of The Color Purple, when we had our very first read-through, I had these little Greatest Hits CDs that I was giving everyone, and it was 'In The Stone,' not 'Boogie Wonderland,' not 'September,' not any of the rest of them, that the black cast went, Oh my God, no you didn't. You didn't write that song. 'September' and 'Boogie Wonderland' are the favorites in the white community, black community, all the props are for 'In The Stone.'\"","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}