{"id":374432,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/374432/?format=json","airdate":"2019-08-30T10:41:00-07:00","show":6230,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/6230/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Rosalita","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"Bruce Springsteen","artist_ids":["70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f"],"album":"","release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"1950-01-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"\"Rosalita\" appeared on Betsy's \"Introducing You to Me\" mix.
Betsy says: \"I had started dating this guy in October of 1986. I was living in DC and he was in DC doing an internship at a law office. He had another semester of law school to complete at Stanford, so he left just before Christmas of that year. We didn't really profess any great commitment - we had really only been dating for a few weeks before he left. But we stayed in touch, and I sent him this mixed tape along with a few others as a way to be connected. The technology was laughable. I would hold a recorder up to my turntable to get the songs. I remember being proud of figuring out ways to 'fade in' a song so that you wouldn't hear the click of the recorder at the beginning or end of the songs.
\"The tape is long gone, probably eaten by a cassette machine somewhere or lost in a series of moves, including one across country to Seattle. There was also a long, handwritten letter that went with the tape explaining the song choice. I wish I could find that now, as honestly I'm confused by some of the choices! Most of the songs I still love, but others, while I recognize them, would hardly be described as favorites. Fortunately my taste in men has remained more constant. After more than a year of having a long distance relationship, 'the guy' moved back to DC and eventually we got married. We will celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary in 2020.\"","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}