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MOVIEGOER: 'Love Notes' & other confidants

Published Aug 5, 2021 06:35 am
Joe D Mango

Every generation has its fair share of public confidants/advisers on matters of the heart, and then some.

They don’t have to be certified guidance counsellors or life coaches as some are known are today. They usually speak from experience, the university of life.

The 1960s saw the rise of Dely Magpayo, who took her surname seriously to dish out free advice to letter-senders via a popular radio program that carried her name, Tia Dely.

In the 70s, Helen Vela, she with the soothing, comforting voice, launched her own advice program on radio (and later, on TV), Lovingly Yours, Helen.

Both shows echoed the advice-to-the-lovelorn-format that readers worldwide followed in a syndicated US newspaper column called Dear Abby.

Written by Abigail Van Buren (also known as Jeanne Phillips), Dear Abby is the most widely syndicated columnist in the world.

Her life advice column has stood the test of time. She is now online via UExpress, where she continues to deliver sound, compassionate advice on matters not just about love, sex and family but about so much more.

Abby’s website covers the following areas of concern: parenting, marriage and divorce, death, money, etiquette and ethics, gender identity, etc.

Dear Abby and these other similar platforms serve a purpose whereby people laden with problems, romantic or otherwise, could access a venue where they could vent their frustrations and concerns. In psychology, airing one’s innermost feelings marks the start of the healing process.

BOU

Xx

Then, it took a man to make a difference.

In 1989 over radio station DWTM, disc jockey Joe D’Mango launched Love Notes, an advice program that took local radio by storm.

The show ran for more than two decades, spawning a movie of the same title in 1995, a TV series, a weekly column, a pocketbook and an album series. Its hook with audiences was phenomenal.

Love Notes ended in 2012 when Joe and his family migrated to Canberra, Australia the following year. Joe now runs a coffee shop in Australia called Sunday in Canberra.

Yet, even in a faraway land, and with the advent of YouTube, Joe revived Love Notes recently via his own channel, Dear Joe TV.

On April 27, 2021, Joe re-launched the first official Love Notes video. “I wasn’t expecting anything fancy,” he offers.

‘’But, I was flooded with hundreds of comments from the original listeners of Love Notes. They were ecstatic about the return of the program that has been part of their growing up years.”

Nasser

Xx

Love Notes is back with weekly episodes on YouTube.

Its digital edition is in partnership with Curve Entertainment which recently reconnected with Joe.

The entertainment production company headed by Narciso Chan and Mario Joson provides the music to Love Notes online.

Curve is also set to release a Love Notes digital album, featuring Nasser (I Honestly Love You), acoustic duo, BOU Natasia and Sherman (Let Me Be the One), Emmy Cayabyab and alternative rock band Kilos.

Love Notes streams on Tuesdays, 8 p.m. on Joe D’Mango’s YouTube channel, Dear Joe TV, first opened in 2015.

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