Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3636917/?format=api
{ "id": 3636917, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3636917/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-04-02T15:31:10-07:00", "show": 66346, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66346/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/584a5090-cb03-31af-b3eb-c0750b84692d/4516515462-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/584a5090-cb03-31af-b3eb-c0750b84692d/4516515462-250.jpg", "song": "Let’s Get It On", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "8cf191a6-e9be-478e-88de-dbbb5c508f27", "artist": "Marvin Gaye", "artist_ids": [ "afdb7919-059d-43c1-b668-ba1d265e7e42" ], "album": "Let’s Get It On", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "120c822e-3cd2-3652-975c-d687256a7931", "labels": [ "Motown" ], "label_ids": [ "8e479e57-ef44-490c-b75d-cd28df89bf1b" ], "release_date": "1973-08-28", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Originally written by 1950's one-hit-wonder Ed Townsend (\"For Your Love\" in 1958), the first version of \"Let's Get It On\" addressed Townsend's desire to get on with life after beating alcoholism. Townsend brought the song to Marvin Gaye when the two were working together on Marvin's Let's Get It On album. Gaye completely changed the lyrics (and meaning) to the song after meeting Janis Hunter, the woman who would become his second wife.--Whew!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }