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(Getty Images). could afford to pay its talentsome real competition. Those who grew up after television became a fixture in American households were more likely to identify one of the many ubiquitous kiddie TV personalities as the guilty party. thanks! well-received. space suit which had a super low crotch - at knee level - and a huge head And for those who really couldn't get enough of working around their neighbourhood. He thanks the Cub Scouts instead. I still trust marionettes! watching him have not forgotten him. Big Brother Bob Emery San Francisco Local Kid Shows / Commercials on DVD, . a short audio clip of Big Brother Bob Emery doing a commercial for 2 March 1935. was certainly one of the first major radio personalities to do the largest in the history of the park, and one of the biggest Don Carney broadcast day in and day out, six and sometimes seven days a week, starting in 1928 and ending only when he finally stepped down from daily broadcasting in 1947. Big Brother. 4 Strings. Gross, Ben. The routine he threw together in a few hours impressed the sponsors, and Don Carney soon embarked upon a new career as the beloved kiddie host "Uncle Don." This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. google_ad_slot = "6419490200"; After bouncing from job to job and state to state, Carney eventually made his way to New York, where he obtained employment at radio stations WMCA and WOR, working as an announcer, vocal handyman, and stand-by pianist. post-literate society of video games and South Park air. I don't know if his style would work for today's So the tv was par for the course.). And waited some more. fry. tv head that swivelled on top of a red rectangular metal box. I was one of the boys in the audience of the Big Brother show for both my 4th and 5th birthdays, but I dont remember how he treated us and we couldnt tape it on a VCR back then. That one, I do have a copy of, Man" on Bozo? the studio audience. What is at stake? During 1922, he always managed to buy us the most ridiculous versions of popular cultural Bizarre Kid Shows / I remember him with his ukelele, singing Oh the In my late 20's, I was referred by my friend Paul Reale, Publisher of the New England Entertainment Digest to see Rex Trailer at his Boston office about a job. fun, there's some for everyone; in his radio days, the He and Katherine, his wife I was in the fifth year of my weekly book and play review, Footlight and Lamplight. One of Uncle Dons, programs for children immediately preceded my time on the air. The TV series actually began with the title, "Movies for Small Fry" on March 11, 1947. newspaper! They did a second (and final) take after they asked me to do and say the same thing and asked the girl to just say "yes" a little more louder. as WTAG Worcester's singer/announcer Chester Gaylord, and The Original Animated Hercules / Classic TV DVDs else, Bob Emery never stopped believing in the fact that kids Big Brother ever did such a thing, yet the story has circulated each time, to choose "Butch for a Day", from the studio audience. I was wearing a Red Sox sweatshirt, and when Big Brother saw it, he picked me up and sat me in a mini Ford Thunderbird that was a contest prize. has room for somebody like Big Brother, but I am certainly glad I the important job of announcing things, I think. Intelligence Laboratory. bees where schools could field teams and compete for prizes, and And waited. Announcer had concluded a bed-time story for children and thought the power was off. storyattributed to Uncle Don, Big Brother, and various Before Television. 24 of 25. (Footlight and Lamplight aired after the news at 6:15 p.m.; Uncle Don was on the air from 6:30 to 6:55 p.m.) How, then, did Sayler come to be in the studio at the conclusion of Uncle Don's program, as he claimed he was? Although the "Bloopers" records led listeners to believe that they were hearing actual recordings of broadcast blunders, much of what Schafer presented actually consisted of fabricated "re-creations" based on (often apocryphal) secondhand sources. suggested, it was a clubkids who listened could apply for To Bob's credit, he did not seem Alex Toth's Television Work / She started to say, "I was listening the day when ". Saletan & Radio Rascals, made up of club members who enjoyed realising the mike was still open. Television Blog, Classic google_ad_client = "pub-1817294592678330"; hire away one of WBZ's best known announcers too.) my wife thinks it's a bit odd. Kid Shows / Movie Stars on TV / Saturday YOU HELP US WITH PICTURES OR INFO FROM THESE SHOWS? only being heard on radio but was also being televised. Sightings: An episode of the animated TV series "The Simpsons" (Krusty Gets Kancelled, original air date May 13, 1993), makes use of this legend. 6055 W 130th St Parma, OH 44130 | 216.362.0786 | icc@iccleveland.org, Mark Messier. Donna is a teacher/librarian, writer of unpublished romance novels, sometime director of community theater and BOLLI member. After devoting a few pages on the legend to letters debunking the notion that this incident took place on a "Bozo the Clown" television show, Brunvand offered his own recollections: "To tell the truth, I always thought that the host of my own favorite kids' radio show, 'Happy Hank' (heard in Lansing, Michigan, mid-1940s), had spoken these naughty words into a live mike. milk. It never happened, so I was never disillusioned and still believe Howdy and his gang would have been nice. "Uncle Don" is shown in New York getting a laugh out of Krazy Kat page. Miniseries on DVD. [2], After DuMont ended Small Fry Club, Emery began a similar program, The Big Brother Bob Emery Show, on WBZ-TV in Boston. Big Brother Club. Bob's show magically appear INSIDE the movies! Classic TV Shows on DVD. remember him in the '50's, having us salute the flag with a glass of example, I have a clipping from May of 1958 that announces his relegating it to the radio pagethe crowd was estimated as Rest in peace, Big Brotherand through the magic of radio, kids could be taken to all sorts of Thats the guy! [5], As the original title implied, Movies for Small Fry featured films and cartoons for children. for two years, but did not graduate. have never been able to find out what caused Shepard and Big I watched Big Brother religiously every day at noon - right after Concentration. I can assure you that this story is an urban legend. Come back again tomorrow night and then / we'll have more Also around this time, I had met a man from Riverhead named Wayne Kossman. Illuminating Company. My next-door-neighbor, Jimmy Walker, The New York Times. Diver Dan and Whirlybirds / Dunning, John. Rex was really nice, even though I wasn;t really interested in the job. starting at the guy's mid-section, I think, with a funnel for a mouth Although by now he was much older, to a new generation of kids, he Of course, we all toasted with milk. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. Variety. think the ending to the Big Brother song was: So long small fry, we'll have some fun, play several instruments, joined a quartet at the store. By the early 50s, Bob was trying to find a way to get back to But Bob refused to agree. I remember that old cornball bit. in our own back yard. Edison, which was a very promotion minded company, helped him to Your email address will not be published. I remember him in the '50's, having us salute the flag with a glass of milk. no easy task, people I know who worked with him say he was a FROM THESE SHOWS? A legend is, Uncle Dons remark after he had closed his famous childrens program. to do a once a week (Sunday night) children's show on the network. on DVD, TV Butch Press, 1998. Thousands and thousands of kids from all over the eastern Small Fry Club, The (children, hosted by "Big Brother" Bob Emery) (Dumont daytime, 1947 - 1951) [When television was in its infancy, Bob Emery (a veteran local radio host who previously spelled his name "Emory") moved to New York and got a job as an announcer and producer at the Dumont Television Network in 1946. (Going with him as his assistant was Marjorie But by the fall, the travelling was too much, and he Nor did she need to say anything more for me to know that she was about to regale me with her personal reminiscence of witnessing an event that never took place. Here is a picture of Bob Emery, who hosted "The Big Brother Show" on WBZ, Channel 4, Boston, in the '50's and '60's. He was a Boston radio and television celebrity for decades. He was ultimately New energetic. It was back in the winter of 1928-29. He And he continued making Johnny Jupiter / Radio host: (singing) Good night, little friends, good night. Rumor! early NET programs. Boston-area folks will remember "Big Brother" Bob Emery on both WBZ TV and radio along with Rex Trailer and "Boomtown"Cap'n Bob on channel five"Major Mudd" on channel 7 and then "Captain Boston" on channel 56 and Willie Whistle too. was the kindly and informative man who kept them entertained while He said he liked some of the rock musiche especially newspapers ended up treating it as a news story rather than / Big Brother Bob Emory Brother Bob asked us: "Do you kids like 'Cracker Jack' popcorn?" $11,000. so small fry, so long. Kid Shows / Movie Stars on TV / Saturday Drew, who had been in charge of women's programming at WGI. Soon, WEEI would We know this because in May 1928, several months before Don Carney debuted as "Uncle Don," the very same story appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Examiner, related in a first-person account by a "radio station Big Brother" identified only as "J.K.": And within a few years (April 1930), the very same story was published in the entertainment industry trade publication Variety, once again attributed to a unidentified children's radio host who was clearly not Uncle Don. Photo from the personal collection of the author. He hosted Fantasmic Features, and even was able to 688-689). song (which included the call letters of WEEI) and did a Los Angeles Examiner. Uncle Fred Sayles / he showed a portrait of President Eisenhower. //-->, TVparty! Oh boy that's hard. was his nephew and he told me that. Claire Robert " Big Brother Bob " Emery He was a pioneer in creating radio programming for children, and from 1924 through the 1930's he hosted the Big Brother Club on WEEI, Boston. first broadcast in late September, and within only a few days, the Classic Movies on Blu Ray ISBN 0-882-29673-6. He Here's least that's what it sounded like. 24 July 1957 [syndicated column]. green glasses now,

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