Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3639894/?format=api
{ "id": 3639894, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3639894/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-04-09T13:30:48-07:00", "show": 66408, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66408/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Cry Baby Cry", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "faff8baa-6c7c-435d-a25f-f7efebb5cceb", "artist": "The Beatles", "artist_ids": [ "b10bbbfc-cf9e-42e0-be17-e2c3e1d2600d" ], "album": "The Beatles", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "055be730-dcad-31bf-b550-45ba9c202aa3", "labels": [ "Apple Records" ], "label_ids": [ "cf7fc5cf-e011-4ef4-b511-cd0188537910" ], "release_date": "1968-11-22", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "John Lennon said he got the title for the song from an advertisement. The original line from that advertisement was, \"Cry, baby cry. Make your mother buy.\" John told Hunter Davies (the Beatles official biographer) \"I've got another (song) here, a few words, I think I got them from an advert - 'Cry baby cry, Make your mother buy.' I've been playing it over on the piano. I've let it go now. It'll come back if I really want it.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }