{"id":383049,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/383049/?format=json","airdate":"2019-09-19T16:59:43-07:00","show":6372,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/6372/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Everybody Dance (12\" mix)","track_id":"e20a0308-f356-4fb0-9c87-c71ecf9ed908","recording_id":null,"artist":"Chic","artist_ids":["a4ed036b-5f18-439c-b1e1-96d205bab255"],"album":"Dance, Dance, Dance: The Best of Chic","release_id":"0908934c-8237-4bcd-9670-3ca66656a4b7","release_group_id":null,"labels":["Atlantic"],"label_ids":["50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7"],"release_date":"1991-11-05","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Happy Birthday Nile Rodgers! (born September 19, 1952 - age 67)  an American record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger and guitarist. As the co-founder of Chic, he has written, produced, and performed on records that have cumulatively sold more than 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide.<br/><br/>\nRogers began his career as a session guitarist in New York, touring with the Sesame Street band in his teens led by Joe Raposo, and then working in the house band at Harlem’s world famous Apollo Theater, playing behind Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Maxine Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ben E. King, Betty Wright, Earl Lewis and the Channels, Parliament Funkadelic, and many other legendary R&B artists.<br/><br/>\nNile met bassist Bernard Edwards in 1970; they formed Chic in 1976 and it became an icon of the disco era. Chic released their self-titled debut in 1977, with the hit singles \"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)\" and \"Everybody Dance\". C'est Chic (1978) produced \"I Want Your Love\" and \"Le Freak\", with the latter selling more than 7 million singles worldwide. <br/><br/>\nThe song \"Good Times\" from the 1979 album Risque was a number one single on the pop and soul charts, and became one of the most-sampled songs of all time, \"ushering in\" hip-hop via The Sugarhill Gang's \"Rapper's Delight\", inspiring Queen's \"Another One Bites the Dust\", and anchoring the Daft Punk hit \"Around the World.”","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}