{"id":3636920,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3636920/?format=json","airdate":"2026-04-02T15:39:21-07:00","show":66346,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66346/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Sexual Healing","track_id":null,"recording_id":"d7560a5f-5438-410b-9264-c3b8cc976034","artist":"Marvin Gaye","artist_ids":["afdb7919-059d-43c1-b668-ba1d265e7e42"],"album":"Midnight Love","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"0ffad470-d1e3-3988-8e3b-1a644495b964","labels":["Columbia"],"label_ids":["011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e"],"release_date":"1982-01-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Gaye wrote this in Ostend, a resort town on the coast of Belgium. He went there in 1981 to relax and recover from his drug problems. He stayed for 18 months before returning to the US.\n--\nThis was one of the first songs to use the Roland TR-808 drum machine, and the first mainstream hit to do so. Gaye and collaborator Gordon Banks programmed the machine, which was introduced in 1980 but hadn't appeared on a hit song until Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force showed up with \"Planet Rock\" earlier in 1982. The 808 became a staple of the hip-hop sound, but R&B veered toward the Linn LM-1, which used real drum samples.\n--\nThis won the 1982 Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male. The instrumental version also won for Best R&B Instrumental.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}