Gestalt of the Earth Radio on WHUP

03/05/2025

Hi pals. What can I say? I'm not loving either the bad tweaks or owner's politics of this platform. Nevertheless, I'm trying to be better about getting posts posted in a semi-timely fashion!

So, there's still some time left for you to check out the show from 25 February 2025...the theme was TIME. And it's chock full of timely tunes from then and now. Lots of good, fun sounds to get you through this weekend's time change. DST WTF

And last night we enjoyed our 2nd Annual International Women's Month Songs of Inspiration featuring local music legend John Gillespie live in the studio with songs and musings with me about women in music. John always brings such enthusiasm for so many amazing women artists. Join us for this delightful, delovely deshow. It's up on the WHUP site until the 18th of this month.

Because this platform's stupid tweaks will remove this post if I link to the shows and/or paste the playlists within this message, I'll do that in the comments below. Thanks for reading about, listening to and sharing Gestalt of the Earth with your pals!

02/12/2025

Hi folks. Tonight's show features a little something for everyone. Give it a tune in and share the word, if you please. To avoid getting my post taken down, tonight's playlist is in the comments.

Thanks and have a sweet Saint Valentine's Day and a swell week.

Here's a lovely triptych of two of tonight's artists, Norma Tanega and Dusty Springfield.

01/15/2025

Hi pals. Happy New Year! I've been shy to use this platform as my posts kept being removed by Meta's AI overlords. Apparently, I just need to post the objectionable stuff...my playlists and links to the show in the comments. So that's what I'll try doing.

Longtime listeners know that in January, I dedicate as many shows as needed to offer a robust listen to musical artists from around the world who died in the previous year. This year is no exception, although I do feel that the recent peak in deaths leveled off from the past two years (maybe that was a COVID-ish bump?). We've done two shows so far, but I'm not sure if I'll raise enough folks from the 2024 dead to fill another three hours of show.

Nevertheless, you can enjoy six hours in homage to people who died last year (links below). Last night's show was particularly potent! Onward.

Thanks for liking, commenting and sharing!

11/28/2024

Knowing that the way I’ve posted playlists for nine years now aggrieves Facebook to the point of deleting my posts, I invite you to HMU for any playlist you’d like.

In the meantime, this week we enjoyed a special in-studio guest, a name known far and wide, certainly east to west in Hillsborough, the remarkable Miss Margaret Lane!

And Miss Margaret Lane brought us a super real and/or surreal story gleaned from social media sources about the international goings on of the mystery band Loco Domingo and the alleged antics of it’s membership Pablo Rocky, Enrico Casio, Marius Callus and, while she steered, veered in fact, clear of self-implicating, Miss Margaret Lane her own self.

In this continuum of tale, punctuated by songs to ponder the story, we may be learning how this phoenix of funk rose from the ashes of the Thrift Bakery fire. Or not.

Find out or not at https://whupfm.org/episode/gestalt-of-the-earth-11-26-24.

Our next Tuesday is the beloved Thanksgiving Leftovers Show, during which I play songs I couldn’t fit into my other shows. Yum.

You can dig Loco Domingo’s “21st Century Dance Beats” here: https://locodomingo.fun

Home of Loco Domingo, the spinoff band of pop group Thrift Bakery from Winston-Salem, N.C.

11/28/2024

It’s hilarious that Facebook has invited me to share this celebration of our nine years together when, as of August, it refuses to allow my regular playlist posts to remain posted. Nor has Facebook yet responded to my repeated attempts to find resolution.

At any rate, thank you for your continuing support and happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!

10/30/2024

Oops. I did it again.

09/26/2024

Y’all. After each of my shows, in addition to tidying up, I spend another 30-60 minutes formatting and editing my playlists to post here. So I typically don’t leave the studio until 12:45 am at the earliest.

I’ve been doing this since 2016. Now, almost eight years later, Facebook feels I am posting spam and deleting my posts, with no way for me to retrieve their content. So that additional late-night time I’ve spent has been wasted.

At least this time, I was given the opportunity to request a review, although the options presented didn’t actually allow me to defend my present my case as accurately as I would have preferred.

I’m hoping if I prevail, this might help the algorithms to leave me alone. Regardless, I’m exploring other, more useful ways to share this information with you.

Thanks for understanding.
JC.

09/25/2024

Well, I am getting an idea where my posts of 11 September 2024 went. Also, when I clicked the "See all" button, it did not show all and basically just stayed on this stupid, useless popup.

09/11/2024

Why is Facebook removing my posts?

08/14/2024

H/Ola, amigos/amigas! Tonight's theme was a bit of everything as this show is intended to be somewhat timeless...what the industry folks call an evergreen. It seemed like about time, as I've not done a real evergreen show in ages. And, of course, when I try to do one, I usually screw up and throw in some soon-to-be-belated time and/or seasonal reference. With the exception of a couple of beach songs (which could be for any time of year, really), it's fairly generic yet representative of the show.

Oh, those of you who pay close attention and hang on my every incorrect word will enjoy my goof late in the show...guess I was getting tired! I'd intended to play Steve and Shawn Colvin doing You're Still Gone and instead grabbed Steve and Lucinda doing You're Still Here. Funny. Heck, it's Tuesday so we'll just call it a Twofer Tuesday special with both of those tracks back-to-back! They're all great!

Of course, you should know that the next three editions of Gestalt of the Earth will be classics from the archives, thoughtfully hand selected by yours truly, while the missus and I take an Iberian siesta. Be good to yourselves while we're abroad and don't let the bad guys gain any ground! In the meantime, you can nevertheless enjoy this show for the next two weeks, until 27 August 2024, at https://whupfm.org/episode/gestalt-of-the-earth-8-13-24. Adios!

WHUP LP HILLSBOROUGH
Gestalt of the Earth Playlist #270, 8/13/2024

Artist/Song
*9 PM*
Cristina Branco/E Às Vezes Dou Por Mim
Mieko Hirota/You're So Vain
Carly Simon/Julie Through The Glass

*BREAK*
Bobby Sherman/Julie, Do Ya Love Me
Reneé Rapp/In The Kitchen
Patti Smith/Soul Kitchen
Cher/Mr. Soul
Frank Zappa/The Dangerous Kitchen
Helene Smith/Pot Can't Talk About the Kettle

*BREAK*
Laufey & Vikingur Olaffson/Bewitched Rework
Ruby Falls/Women At The Beach
Jane Siberry/Mimi On The Beach
Melissa McClelland/Passenger 24

*BREAK 10 PM*
Michelle Malone/Know My Name
Kathleen Kolman/Dream On
Bobbie Gentry/The Fool On The Hill

*BREAK*
Jen Cloher feat. T'HONI Kapa Haka/Being Human
Pretenders/Precious
The Haunted/1-2-5

*BREAK*
Kate Robbins/The Real Me
Thea Gilmore/Video Killed The Radio Star
Judith Durham/Georgy Girl
St. Vincent/The Power's Out
The Janes/Slipped & Fell
Roberta Mazzoni - Quando Sei Con Me
X-Teens/Rain Rain Go Away
Electrick Ladyland/Empty Threats

*BREAK 11 PM*
Cilla Black/Step Inside Love
The Graphic/Entrer Dans L'Amour
Bill Lloyd/Step Inside

*BREAK*
Patty Griffin/Truth #2
Trio/Telling Me Lies
Lucinda Williams/What If
Ferron/Proud Crowd/Pride Cried

*BREAK*
Steve Earle & Lucinda Williams/You're Still Standing There
Steve Earle & Shawn Colvin/You're Still Gone
Freakwater/Sway
Natalie Farr/Cannonball Blues
Lucia Aldao/Catastro

Expires 08/27/24

08/07/2024

At last, back on track! It's stormy weather time with our first named storm of significance for the area: Debby (not to be confused with my sister Debi Clash). Tonight's show is designed to get you all ready for the impending mess (which already started today) and get you through it (as long as your power/internet access plays along). Here's hoping you'll weather the storm well. In the meantime, if this mostly mellow meditation on stormy things is your thing, enjoy this thing for the next two probably wettish weeks, until 20 August, 2024, at https://whupfm.org/episode/gestalt-of-the-earth-8-6-24. Be happy and safe!

WHUP LP HILLSBOROUGH
Gestalt of the Earth Playlist #269, 8/6/2024

Artist/Song
*9 PM*
Annabel Lamb/Riders On The Storm
James Blundell/Rain On A TIn Roof
Gordon LIghtfoot/Looking At The Rain

*BREAK*
Klaus Nomi/Lightning Strikes
Arcade Fire/The Lightning I, II
Nitzer Ebb/Lightning Man
Gary Numan/My World Storm

*BREAK*
Rubén Blades/The Calm Before the Storm
Bruce Cockburn/After The Rain
The Coastal Cohorts/A Mighty Storm
Wade Baynham/Dixie Storms
Lone Justice/If You Don't Like Rain

*BREAK 10 PM*
Betty Lavette/Stormy
Patricia Barber/The Wind Song
Fleetwood Mac/Storms

*BREAK*
BeeGees/Storm
Shawn Phillips/Storm
Justin Vernon/When It Rains Down Here
Darrell Scott/Candles In The Rain (Childless Mothers)

*BREAK*
Bonnie Raitt/Storm Warning
Petula Clark/Beautiful In The Rain
Enya/Storms In Africa Parts 1&2
Dusty Springfield/Rain

*BREAK 11 PM*
Sister Rosetta Tharpe/Stand The Storm
Gladys Knight/Stormy Weather
Billie Holiday/Stormy Blues

*BREAK*
Martha Reeves/Storm In My Soul
Massive Attack/Weather Storm
Paul Severs/Storm En Regen
The dB's/Storm Warning
Mott The Hoople/Storm
The Pixies/Stormy Weather

*BREAK*
Nina Simone/I Think It's Going To Rain Today
Nick Drake/Rain
Elliott Smith/Between The Bars
Eileen Edmonds/Rain On A Tin Roof
Mumford & Sons/After The Storm

Expires 08/20/24

08/07/2024

So. I was still remiss last week. Why, you may wonder? What's your excuse this time? Well, I had a studio full of my most immediate family as they joined me to (fairly quietly) celebrate a family member's birthday (umm...that was me!) and they were ready to clear out of here stat! So we did. And I got busy (aka distracted). My sincere apologies. But at least you have another week to enjoy this fabulous birthday show.

Happy Birthday! Tonight's edition of the show celebrates birthdays, particularly mine! And all Leos (at least those born before this show expires on 13 August!). So if you're celebrating a birthday or know someone how is, play this show for 'em. Or, better yet, tell them that you made a substantial donation to WHUP in their honor and this show is their amazing birthday gift! Sure, it's a little white lie, but it's for the great good (and, if it eases your conscious, go ahead and donate to https://whupfm.org. Thanks!).

If you're not pulling a fast one on a loved one, or even if you are, enjoy this bountiful birthday show for two wonderful weeks, until 13 August 2024, at https://whupfm.org/episode/gestalt-of-the-earth-7-30-24. Happy Birthday (to me!) and have a great week!

WHUP LP HILLSBOROUGH
Gestalt of the Earth Playlist #268, 7/30/2024

Artist/Song
*9 PM*
Paul Weller/It's Your Birthday
Bealtes/Yer Blues
Claudine Longet/When I'm 64

*BREAK*/
New York Latin All Stars/25 Or 6 To 4
Starbuck/Moonlight Feels Right
Liza Minnelli/Dancing In The Moonlight
Francisco Gómez/Otro Año Más
Laura Nyro/And When I Die
Vanessa Da Mata/Meu Aniversário

*BREAK*
Altered Images/Happy Birthday
X-Teens/Johnny's Having Fun
Joe King Carrasco & The Crowns/Party Weekend
Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires/Party
Loretta Lynn/Happy Birthday
Conway Twitty/Happy Birthday, Darlin'
Wanda Jackson/Happy, Happy Birthday
Vicente Fernández/Las Mañanitas
The New Mongrels/Not Dead (Yet)

*BREAK 10 PM*
Stevie Wonder/Happy Birthday
Big Dee Irwin/It's My Birthday
Dead Or Alive/Unhappy Birthday

*BREAK*
Ginette Sage/C'est Ma Fete
Lesley Gore/Judy's Turn To Cry
The Smiths/Unhappy Birthday
Waylon Jennings/MacArthur Park (Revisited)

*BREAK*
The Jesus & Mary Chain/Birthday
The Fall/Birthday Song
The Idle Race/The Birthday
The Boys Next Door/Happy Birthday
The Stranglers/96 Tears
The Cure/Another Happy Birthday

*BREAK 11 PM*
Rock Hudson/Happy Birthday To Me
Concrete Blonde/Happy Birthday
Helen Reddy/Birthday Song

*BREAK*Sugarcubes/Birthday
Selena Gomez/Birthday
Katy Perry/Birthday
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five/The Birthday Party

*BREAK*
Thelonious Monk/Boo Boo's Birthday
Wes Montgomery/Four On Six

*BREAK*
Tony Christie/Happy Birthday, Baby
Destiny's Child/Birthday

Expires 08/13/24