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GET /v2/plays/3638324/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
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{
    "id": 3638324,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3638324/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-04-05T20:10:21-07:00",
    "show": 66376,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66376/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/fd97ef1d-fe8c-4a63-b0ef-ef430228d95a/1661868833-500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/fd97ef1d-fe8c-4a63-b0ef-ef430228d95a/1661868833-250.jpg",
    "song": "Get Up and Dance",
    "track_id": null,
    "recording_id": "cd44e224-7c05-4089-9124-261370134299",
    "artist": "Freedom",
    "artist_ids": [
        "fe75adb0-a2bd-4e34-91d4-91974c4eab13"
    ],
    "album": "Farther Than Imagination",
    "release_id": null,
    "release_group_id": "ed4a097f-a913-486f-8ac3-f437b8c6ae03",
    "labels": [
        "Malaco"
    ],
    "label_ids": [],
    "release_date": "1979-01-01",
    "rotation_status": null,
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "Soul-funk-R&B-jazz band Freedom released \"Get Up and Dance\" on their 1979 album Farther Than Imagination. Formed in 1975, Freedom was comprised of: Caleb Tyrone Armstrong (lead guitarist), Ray Smith (bass), Joe Leslie (lead singer and bongos), David Thigpen (sax), Victor Mason (drums), Larry Addison (keyboards and vocals), Adolph Adams (sax and vocals), and Robert Black (trumpet). The group slowly disbanded in 1981 after lead singer Joe Leslie was killed.\n\n\"Get Up and Dance\" has been sampled over 70 times by artists like SWV, John Legend, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, and more.",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}