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Gang of Four, which formed in Leeds, England, in 1976, is credited with helping to define a funk-inflected post-punk sound that went on to inspire groups like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592707, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592707/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:27:08-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1680a2dd-ed29-4240-b69f-938d12c880d0", "artist": "Pere Ubu", "artist_ids": [ "5a54b72e-bfb3-4ca6-944a-e17261399965" ], "album": "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "db32e8ef-8117-3f32-89aa-4d6f13185eb1", "labels": [ "Hearthan" ], "label_ids": [ "da031acb-581b-40d2-b740-867539cf281c" ], "release_date": "1975-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "David Thomas, the irreverent experimental musician who led the influential band Pere Ubu, died April 23 after a long illness. He was 71.\n\nPere Ubu had an enormous influence on the burgeoning late 1970s post-punk and no wave movements, courtesy of legendary singles (the 1975 debut \"30 Seconds Over Tokyo\" and the following year's ominous \"Final Solution\") and a pair of 1978 LPs, The Modern Dance and Dub Housing.\nOver time, Pere Ubu's imprint was heard on countless bands that resisted categorization; to name a few, Wire, Mission of Burma, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Nine Inch Nails and Mr. Bungle.:https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/g-s1-62547/david-thomas-pere-ubu-obituary", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592706, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592706/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:24:47-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "In the City", "track_id": "6cf534e7-e590-3879-b214-89c1d8dbef75", "recording_id": "1c313948-966e-4ef1-ac05-f5e5df60f9a9", "artist": "The Jam", "artist_ids": [ "23228f18-01d5-493e-94ce-cfcde82a8db2" ], "album": "In the City", "release_id": "3a55bafb-ea33-372e-98f6-dd6868063a21", "release_group_id": "5cdc81f5-29a3-3866-8e13-9f271d3615eb", "labels": [ "Polydor" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2" ], "release_date": "1997-08-04", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "R.I.P., renowned drummer Rick Buckler, who died in February at age 69.\n--\nBuckler, who also pursued writing and furniture design and restoration, was best known among music fans for his time with the Jam. The rock trio formed in 1972 and featured Buckler, guitarist and singer Paul Weller and bassist Bruce Foxton. The group gained fame for hits including “Town Called Malice” and “That’s Entertainment” and for its debut album, “In the City,” which The Times dubbed in 1993 “an absolutely galvanic celebration of British teen rebellion.”", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592705, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592705/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:22:08-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Neat Neat Neat", "track_id": "908d62b8-ed92-398b-8020-0ff2b81cc1af", "recording_id": "f37f5017-5ad3-4c44-95cb-8e409089e39e", "artist": "The Damned", "artist_ids": [ "77d21c13-846f-4f48-9546-873949eff6ae" ], "album": "Damned Damned Damned", "release_id": "96c27010-925a-4e75-86a4-b55ad42480c5", "release_group_id": "3ed0e51d-62a4-3957-ab42-579c6f8c148b", "labels": [ "Stiff Records" ], "label_ids": [ "df57ad64-fae7-4976-a8a0-d6d344867e09" ], "release_date": "1977-02-18", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Brian James, the founding guitarist of trailblazing British punks the Damned, died in March at age 70. \n\nThe Damned have an exceptionally important place in rock history, releasing “New Rose,” arguably the first-ever punk single in the U.K., in 1976. The Damned also were the first band of their scene to release a studio album (1977’s “Damned Damned Damned”) and to tour the United States. : https://www.brooklynvegan.com/brian-james-the-damneds-founding-guitarist-dies-at-70/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592704, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592704/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:19:07-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Bad Girl", "track_id": "51688063-8c98-3909-9213-3b9068540bf4", "recording_id": "33f1ab30-acbc-491b-a642-d230a73a9d4a", "artist": "New York Dolls", "artist_ids": [ "1b96b9c9-0832-40cb-9f8d-7274de3733fc" ], "album": "Rock 'n' Roll", "release_id": "7c5b3d96-8108-44c7-ad83-d8cb790ad821", "release_group_id": "792fbbea-30a4-30ae-8f02-b78e46b6962b", "labels": [ "Mercury Records" ], "label_ids": [ "995428e7-81b6-41dd-bd38-5a7a0ece8ad6" ], "release_date": "1994-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "David Johansen, frontman for the New York Dolls and the last surviving original member of that pioneering punk band, died in February at the age of 75. The singer also moonlighted as his swing music alter ego Buster Poindexter and, as an actor, appeared in films like Scrooged and Let It Ride.\n--\nThe New York City-born Johansen was best known for his work in the pioneering punk group the New York Dolls, with whom — during the band’s initial run in the first half of the Seventies — he recorded a pair of influential glam punk albums, 1973’s New York Dolls and 1974’s Too Much Too Soon, with Johansen co-writing the bulk of the albums with guitarist Johnny Thunders.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592703, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592703/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:12:21-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cc3e9a56-f606-4a70-bc4b-cb92c47d1aef/14571912184-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cc3e9a56-f606-4a70-bc4b-cb92c47d1aef/14571912184-250.jpg", "song": "Melting Pot", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "0f163296-2876-4d2a-aa3b-d3a9a8e55166", "artist": "Booker T. & the MG’s", "artist_ids": [ "377015fb-c02f-4b05-960b-e0df6a7ea99e" ], "album": "Melting Pot", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "dabb1ca1-775b-3c9a-88ac-56590e8deb49", "labels": [ "Stax" ], "label_ids": [ "3d60c9cf-c020-49e8-a803-2189c146b880" ], "release_date": "1971-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Steve Cropper, the Booker T. & the MG guitarist, songwriter and producer who was instrumental in the rise of R&B powerhouse Stax Records, recently died in Nashville at 84. The musician helped to define what became known as the Memphis Sound as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, the house band at Stax Record label. He also wrote and produced some of American pop music's most foundational songs.\n\nHe cowrote the 1967 hit (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay\" with Otis Redding and created the groovy instrumental track \"Green Onions' with Booker T. & the M.G.'s. \n--\nHere's a remembrance: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-1156028/remembering-steve-cropper-guitarist-and-member-of-stax-records-booker-t-the-m-g-s", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592702, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592702/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:07:45-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Bienvenue À La Maison", "track_id": "854ad2fb-91d8-4522-b954-a4fdaab96acd", "recording_id": "b54a8368-fb2d-4090-bf1e-23ee79f0b833", "artist": "Amadou & Mariam", "artist_ids": [ "1fb60b6c-0f4d-42b4-8a5e-de705ec76660" ], "album": "L’amour à la folie", "release_id": "4e0e6a67-1d2f-45f8-bc3b-2b50f3fd5d5d", "release_group_id": "d664d0de-cf6f-4d92-98a1-d56f754155fa", "labels": [ "Because Music" ], "label_ids": [ "23450486-837c-46a6-8b3f-b22429a0dfe1" ], "release_date": "2025-10-24", "rotation_status": "R/N", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of the Malian music duo Amadou & Mariam died in April at age 70.\n\n One of the most successful African musical acts of the 2000s, husband and wife duo Amadou & Mariam achieved global fame by combining West African influences with rhythm and blues.\n\nTheir breakthrough album, 2004's Dimanche à Bamako, sold half a million copies worldwide and led to collaborations with Blur's Damon Albarn, as well as appearances at the Glastonbury and Coachella festivals.\n\nThousands gathered for the blind musician's funeral in Mali: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0zq4elez9o", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592701, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592701/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:03:52-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "La Malanga", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Eddie Palmieri", "artist_ids": [ "42b5af45-312e-4dc1-ad0c-84dea2d5dcb2" ], "album": "Superimposition", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "11087ccc-b06f-35ea-b64b-2713e6cb8ae3", "labels": [ "Fania" ], "label_ids": [ "a00f1d54-2e47-492b-b24b-3b994b2ba0c4" ], "release_date": "1970-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Eddie Palmieri, a pianist, composer and bandleader whose contributions to Afro-Caribbean music helped usher in the golden age of salsa died in August at age 88. \nIn the 1960s and early '70s, Palmieri released a string of albums with his orchestra La Perfecta. They fused syncopated Afro-Caribbean beats and jazz stylings.\n\nSongs like \"Bilongo,\" \"Café\" and \"La Malanga\" featured Palmieri's signature, highly percussive piano playing. His was a full-bodied technique, employing forearms, elbows and even an occasional growl from the maestro himself.: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/1197084433/eddie-palmieri-latin-jazz-legend-has-died\n--\nDon't miss this live performance of \"La Malanga\" in Berlin in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sveKQkHmBXw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592699, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592699/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:56:49-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Chicago", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "b8ea1c34-8c93-4c80-9e3a-c8f49c96419a", "artist": "Roy Ayers", "artist_ids": [ "06e199c1-6f33-477b-a74d-bc8a283bd8f0" ], "album": "Lots of Love", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "85810fcd-be98-463e-b7ed-59e2e5ad3fb3", "labels": [ "Charly Records" ], "label_ids": [ "a754ad77-2842-4ed4-a6e7-fb6b1fdc7f40" ], "release_date": "1983-11-21", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Someone wrote, \"In 1983 Roy Ayers released a song called Chicago. This was a few years before House music came out but this is pure House Music.\"\nOriginally issued on the vibist’s own Uno Melodic label in 1983, the album\" Lots of Love' captures Roy Ayers between major-label tenures with Polydor and Columbia, and he capitalizes on his independence by further investigating the Afrobeat rhythms and textures he first explored in his collaboration with Fela Kuti while simultaneously moving into post-disco dance music.\n--\nQuestlove wrote about Roy Ayers, \"The King Of Neo Soul.\nThe cat who birthed us all in the “vibes only” movement.\nThe Soundtrack that ALL the incense you ever burned was truly made for.\n\nThank You Roy Edward Ayers Jr for EVERYTHING you gave us. taught us. showed us. soothed us.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592700, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592700/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:55:07-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3592698, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592698/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:50:36-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Everybody Loves the Sunshine", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "80590a29-6ada-49b9-9a93-2e6f94994705", "artist": "Roy Ayers Ubiquity", "artist_ids": [ "d1501f92-f523-4e95-a787-432875c8d6dc" ], "album": "Everybody Loves the Sunshine", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "e239229f-0614-3ec6-8b2f-7bf536fee70f", "labels": [ "Polydor" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2" ], "release_date": "1976-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Did you know that Roy Ayers, who died in March at age 84, had powerful early influences? Ayers was born in Los Angeles on Sept. 10, 1940, to a musical family. Like a scene out of a movie, a 5-year-old Ayers boogie'd so hard at a Lionel Hampton concert that the vibraphonist handed Ayers his first pair of mallets.\n\"At the time, my mother and father told me he laid some spiritual vibes on me,\" he told the Los Angeles Times in 2011.\n--\nEnjoy this obitary of this talented vibraphonist and composer: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/07/roy-ayers-obituary", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592695, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592695/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:45:53-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/767a98e7-d397-3192-9309-67dc129325b2/29960426489-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/767a98e7-d397-3192-9309-67dc129325b2/29960426489-250.jpg", "song": "It Never Rains (In Southern California)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1af12b83-e25d-4d93-b8a1-c99dd2fcc883", "artist": "Tony! Toni! Toné!", "artist_ids": [ "511562a6-c381-44df-9bc4-27be779716b8" ], "album": "The Revival", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c3cbc025-1dfc-349a-81e9-41076b04be8c", "labels": [ "Universal" ], "label_ids": [ "1391bdc7-a22c-48a4-a5fb-e7b8ef6ce143" ], "release_date": "1990-04-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "D'Wayne Wiggins, co-founder of the legendary Bay Area R&B trio Tony! Toni! Toné!, died this year at age 64. A key figure in shaping the sound of 80s and 90s R&B, Wiggins was behind hits like \"Feels Good\" and \"If I Had No Loot,\" which helped propel the group to multi-platinum success. He was also instrumental in the early careers of Destiny’s Child and a prominent figure in the Bay Area music scene, influencing the hyphy movement and working with artists like Too $hort and The Coup. His legacy as a musician, producer, and mentor continues to resonate. Rest in power, D'Wayne.\n--\nSee the official video for \"It Never Rains...\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1YYqeKUp-M", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592697, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592697/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:44:14-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3592693, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592693/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:38:18-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Superbad", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "dc0fc0bb-3988-4843-ab36-eefe97c07e68", "artist": "Chris Jasper", "artist_ids": [ "ef1b6332-ab9c-49ce-b3ed-10aa36c31d2b" ], "album": "Superbad", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Big Break Records" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1988-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Chris Jasper, the acclaimed keyboardist, songwriter, and producer for the Isley Brothers, died on February 23, 2025, at age 73.\n\n Recognized for his remarkable talents as a singer, songwriter, and keyboardist, Jasper's profound impact on the music industry remains undeniable. He joined The Isley Brothers in 1973, during a transformative period for the band when they evolved from a vocal trio into a six-member R&B/funk powerhouse. The singer, songwriter and keyboardist was an integral part of the Isley Brothers' success, contributing to some of the group's most enduring hits.: https://axs.tv/news-story/isley-brothers-keyboardist-and-songwriter-chris-jasper-dies-aged-73/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592692, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592692/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:35:59-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Lady Liberty Needs Glasses", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "797c5eb4-9c7c-4d33-9721-99fcb2c86b56", "artist": "Malcolm Jamal Warner", "artist_ids": [ "0e669587-4f57-4c7b-9aa1-793324d6c380" ], "album": "The Rose That Grew From Concrete, Volume 1", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c154cfb6-7107-35e0-86c7-8d7cd7a19382", "labels": [ "Interscope Records" ], "label_ids": [ "2182a316-c4bd-4605-936a-5e2fac52bdd2" ], "release_date": "2000-10-17", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "R.I.P., Malcolm Jamal Warner. This L.A. Times tribute says that he \"carried a heavy load for Black America\": https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-07-26/malcolm-jamal-warner-black-community\n--\nAfter his death this year at age 54, actor and director Keegan-Michael Key posted simply, “Rest easy, King. You gave us more than you know.”: https://ourtimepress.com/malcolm-jamal-warner-beloved-star-of-the-cosby-show-dies-at-54/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592694, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592694/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:33:28-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3592691, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592691/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:27:30-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/15f6c61b-d09a-4e2d-935b-94725967c117/16042610826-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/15f6c61b-d09a-4e2d-935b-94725967c117/16042610826-250.jpg", "song": "Picture 3", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "0038f4d0-4ff8-497c-ac0c-19fa123aef68", "artist": "Jack DeJohnette", "artist_ids": [ "f2d13d28-6f74-4dd5-b596-8bd0b6f67615" ], "album": "Pictures", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "883fe241-042a-417c-8396-61c50cf1e52b", "labels": [ "ECM Records" ], "label_ids": [ "1edf842b-d727-4d27-8db6-f31882443f89" ], "release_date": "1977-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Revered jazz drummer, pianist, and composer Jack DeJohnette died in October t age 83. He is renowned, among other things, for his work on Miles Davis's \"Bitches Brew.\"\n--\nHere's a guide to 7 essential recordings: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/jack-dejohnette-songs-albums.html", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592689, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592689/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:22:43-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Tryin’ Times", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "a990814e-b272-4a8f-927b-571520b8b12a", "artist": "Roberta Flack", "artist_ids": [ "5298bbcb-7330-49bf-a780-2d757f10a20a" ], "album": "First Take", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "4455c04d-9368-4dc5-b35d-6ff8c407921f", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "1969-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Singer Roberta Flack, who broke through as one of the most important and beloved singers of the 1970s and beyond with a sound that combined soul, jazz, rock and pop, died this year at the age of 88. She had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.\n\nRoberta Cleopatra Flack was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina, and she grew up in in northern Virginia. She learned to sing and play piano in the church. Musically gifted from a young age, Flack won a scholarship to Howard University at just 15 with plans to pursue a classical music career.\nFlack taught at schools in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., and began performing in clubs, both as a pianist for other vocalists and as a singer herself. Attention from fellow musicians led to a contract with Atlantic Records, who released her debut album, First Take, in 1969.\n\nShe told The New York Times her biggest break came when Clint Eastwood used her version of Ewan MacColl's \"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face\" in his 1971 movie Play Misty For Me, Flack's popularity soared.\n\nThe string of albums that followed — Chapter Two, Quiet Fire, Killing Me Softly, Feel Like Makin' Love and an album of duets with Donny Hathaway — made her one of the decade's most popular singers. \n--\nThis song, written by Donny Hathaway, from her debut album, \"First Take, features Flack on piano, Ron Carter on bass, John Pizzarelli on guitar, and Ray Lucas on drums.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592690, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592690/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:18:21-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3592688, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592688/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:12:57-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Remember Me", "track_id": "4f88876d-43d4-33d6-8f91-daf5b1bba26c", "recording_id": "6c27b688-8d5f-4e7b-bd32-f9c1b8c0789b", "artist": "Junior Byles & Rupert Reid", "artist_ids": [ "4fe31b33-ac61-4378-a1f0-ea203858c594", "a7f02a97-8db1-4f64-9fb9-c048032f721b" ], "album": "129 Beat Street Ja-Man Special 75-78", "release_id": "61ce7a56-9272-4fa2-8580-da5c01a2d109", "release_group_id": "3ab4b1dd-e1e2-3bbb-97d5-34e3a257b5e3", "labels": [ "Blood and Fire" ], "label_ids": [ "5af2af12-a696-4bb7-b37e-852ae21a5303" ], "release_date": "1998-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Junior Byles, a legendary reggae singer, struggled with depression and mental health issues since the 70s (after the death of Emperor Haile Selassie), leading to homelessness and begging on the streets.\nHe died this year at age 76. 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