Delilah, the making of Yanni and loving ‘Sweet Valley High’
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
PRX
4.6 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Where do you turn when you’re heartbroken in the dead of night? Delilah, of course. Her radio call-in show pairs romantic advice with the perfect song. Plus, how Yanni, John Tesh and others discovered an improbable vehicle to ‘90s stardom: the PBS pledge drive. For our Guilty Pleasures series, the writer and “This American Life” producer Bim Adewunmi explains how the “Sweet Valley High” series is kind of preposterous and over-the-top — and completely obsessed her.
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| 0:00.0 | from PRX. |
| 0:06.1 | Today on Studio 360, I'll talk with a radio host who's on every night and listen to by about 10 times as many people as all of you put together. |
| 0:16.9 | So when somebody calls me and says, you know, my husband left me last year, and I just met this |
| 0:21.1 | wonderful man, our divorce has been final two weeks, and I'm ready to get married again. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm like, no, no, don't do that. |
| 0:26.9 | Delilah, Queen of Relationship Advice and Sappy Love Songs. |
| 0:32.5 | Plus, the magical time that brought us Yanni and John Tesh. |
| 0:41.2 | I realized that if I was going to have a real full-time music career, |
| 0:48.2 | that it was going to have to be some big event. |
| 0:50.9 | That unlikely portal to stardom in the 1990s. Viewers like you. |
| 0:55.0 | What I needed was something like a PBS special to make a whole bunch of loud noise. |
| 1:00.0 | That's ahead on Studio 360 right after this. |
| 1:08.0 | This is Studio 360. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Kernan. And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This first level of garden. This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. |
| 1:13.0 | This first level of garden. This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable dower. I'd like to have the roasted chicken base. |
| 1:17.9 | Very well done. |
| 1:19.1 | Editing is all about timing. I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject. |
| 1:23.4 | You must get sick of your own voice, right? |
| 1:25.9 | Studio 360. |
| 1:28.8 | With Kurt Anderson. |
| 1:40.7 | As you may have heard, we are wrapping up Studio 360 at the end of this month after 20 glorious years as a public radio show and a podcast as well. |
| 1:46.3 | It's never easy saying goodbye, but we'll take a stab at it in our special finale episode in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I wanted to share one of my favorite interviews |
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