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It talked about World Contact Day, when persons would attempt to collectively send out a telepathic message to visitors from outer space. \nAfter The Carpenters covered it, they received requests about World Contact Day. The Carpenters had a TV special, \"The Carpenters....Space Encounters.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3521674, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3521674/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-07-02T14:31:38-07:00", "show": 63900, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/63900/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia803109.us.archive.org/28/items/mbid-06c00d7f-f4f3-3909-9911-0774030d21ff/mbid-06c00d7f-f4f3-3909-9911-0774030d21ff-24891409803_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia803109.us.archive.org/28/items/mbid-06c00d7f-f4f3-3909-9911-0774030d21ff/mbid-06c00d7f-f4f3-3909-9911-0774030d21ff-24891409803_thumb250.jpg", "song": "EXP", "track_id": "80102aae-ae6a-34c0-b6eb-90355ee324b0", "recording_id": "45efc6c9-3272-49ac-b53e-5c2adf63ee85", "artist": "The Jimi Hendrix Experience", "artist_ids": [ "33b3c323-77c2-417c-a5b4-af7e6a111cc9" ], "album": "Axis: Bold as Love", "release_id": "06c00d7f-f4f3-3909-9911-0774030d21ff", "release_group_id": "d0b1e21e-cef6-4575-8d92-1afea1894ca3", "labels": [ "Experience Hendrix" ], "label_ids": [ "5677c51a-a6d3-4ce6-abab-d9699c46f5f4" ], "release_date": "1997-04-22", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Good evening, ladies and gentleman\nWelcome to radio station EXP\nTonight we are featuring an interview\nWith a very peculiar looking gentleman\nWho goes by the name Mr. Paul Caruso...\"\n\nMitch Mitchell interview his bandmate Jimi Hendrix here: https://genius.com/The-jimi-hendrix-experience-exp-lyrics", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3521673, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3521673/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-07-02T14:29:30-07:00", "show": 63900, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/63900/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801909.us.archive.org/14/items/mbid-b14f3252-4973-3fe0-a4da-af5d39626cc1/mbid-b14f3252-4973-3fe0-a4da-af5d39626cc1-26865127077_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601909.us.archive.org/14/items/mbid-b14f3252-4973-3fe0-a4da-af5d39626cc1/mbid-b14f3252-4973-3fe0-a4da-af5d39626cc1-26865127077_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois", "track_id": "4f99f0b3-53e0-366a-912e-095c3e15d2be", "recording_id": "01754f6c-873f-4af7-9554-59784d61e4c7", "artist": "Sufjan Stevens", "artist_ids": [ "01d3c51b-9b98-418a-8d8e-37f6fab59d8c" ], "album": "Illinois", "release_id": "066ea5e6-957e-3153-8c61-527bd475888d", "release_group_id": "1fb75447-c513-38c4-ad8f-1bfc441aa74c", "labels": [ "Rough Trade" ], "label_ids": [ "2276f06e-f65a-4d61-9dee-9f95ff4b775c" ], "release_date": "2005-07-05", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Theresa in NJ...\n--\nThe St. Clair Triangle or The Southern Illinois incident was a UFO sighting which occurred on January 5, 2000 over the town of Highland, Illinois, beginning shortly after 4:00 am. Five on-duty police officers along with various other eyewitnesses, sighted and reported a massive, silent, triangular craft operating at an unusual treetop level altitude and speeds.\n--\n Katrina Kerns and Shara Worden are the background singers on this lovely tune.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3521672, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3521672/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-07-02T14:19:28-07:00", "show": 63900, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/63900/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/4c413791-f9de-4259-b971-1bb2f7c678a4/5486950797-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/4c413791-f9de-4259-b971-1bb2f7c678a4/5486950797-250.jpg", "song": "A Funky Space Reincarnation", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "811831e9-bf89-42b1-83e8-e67b8b2c16d1", "artist": "Marvin Gaye", "artist_ids": [ "afdb7919-059d-43c1-b668-ba1d265e7e42" ], "album": "Here, My Dear", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "225a6648-d4d2-3b89-986b-6e515e7a94f0", "labels": [ "Motown" ], "label_ids": [ "8e479e57-ef44-490c-b75d-cd28df89bf1b" ], "release_date": "1978-12-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The jazz-funk single “A Funky Space Reincarnation” outlines a future where he’s captain of a “space bed” and meets a woman who reminds him of his first wife, Anna. He proclaims they’ll probably get “married in June” and she should “smoke a joint from out of Venus.”\n\nThe sci-fi romance comes from his 1978 album \"Here, My Dear,\" which focuses primarily on Gaye’s divorce from his first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye. When she sued him for divorce, the singer’s attorney convinced Gaye to give up half the percentage of album royalties from his next Motown album to his ex-wife. \n As such, Gaye created a double-length concept album about the divorce. Intending to record a crap album, his true feelings came through on an album (his fifteenth) which is considered a masterpiece.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3521671, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3521671/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-07-02T14:15:25-07:00", "show": 63900, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/63900/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cfc416af-aa02-4ad6-bf4c-0062d6714f7b/2727153517-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cfc416af-aa02-4ad6-bf4c-0062d6714f7b/2727153517-250.jpg", "song": "Cosmic Girl", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "36dd9cc6-e4b0-4d2a-80fe-4efe4ca11876", "artist": "Jamiroquai", "artist_ids": [ "f4857fb9-e255-4dc6-bd01-e4ca7cc68544" ], "album": "Travelling Without Moving", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "4b5e5a6f-c941-384c-8508-a4fee1dfcec4", "labels": [ "Sony CMG" ], "label_ids": [ "e7ab62fb-f702-4a11-b96b-691cc4d82579" ], "release_date": "1996-08-28", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Out to Kevin!\n--\nJamiroquai is an English funk and acid jazz band from London. Formed in 1992, they are fronted by vocalist Jay Kay, and were prominent in the London-based funk and acid jazz movement of the 1990s. 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That's the previously unknown Sammy Hagar singing here. 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