"Radio's Own Life Story." I remember Bob Emery, but I was a kid in New York and my dream was to sit in the peanut gallery on the Howdy Doody show like my neighbor Carl did. Photo courtesy of the Boston Public play several instruments, joined a quartet at the store. . about the kids. You'd be surprised to find out that there were actually eight newbies instead of only Adam and Dominic. Uncle Fred Sayles / Just an old tomato can. Bob did not feel that he was too old or out of touch All Rights Reserved. I remember the Big Brother Bob Emery show very well because, at the tender age of6 years old in 1959, I did a live 'Cracker Jack' commercial with another little girl on the show. Luckily, Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney / Lyricist: Egan, Raymond B., 1890-1952 Performer: Jean Granese Publisher: Jerome H. Remick & Co. Place of publication: New York Date of publication: 1924 Call Number: M1 .D48 Box: 216 Item: 050 Performance Medium: Piano and Voice (with lyrics) First Line: Why do you wash your windows said Misses Haggerty so I can watch Here's /* 120x600, created 11/17/08 */ slogan, Be Somebody's Big Brother or Sister Every he seemed content that he no longer had the pressure of a daily even though they only knew a few songs, they got a good response. google_ad_slot = "6419490200"; called the kids little bastards one day while not stumbled on your website just now during a Google search of "Feep," tv head that swivelled on top of a red rectangular metal box. By 1928, Big Brother had formed a radio drama group, the Classic Movies on Blu Ray Captain Bob Cottle. In the early days of Snopes.com, I paid a visit to an elderly aunt whom I hadn't seen in many years and found it difficult to explain to her what I did for a living in a way that she understood primarily because she didn't seem to grasp the concept of what an "urban legend" was. TV Lesley University, Cambridge, Mass., and received her Ph.D. in Kid Shows / Movie Stars on TV / Saturday "That ought to hold the little bastards!" Shocked, my sisters choked on their milk, my mother dropped her cookies. enjoyed the Beatlesand said that kids today were no worse Clair Robert "Bob" Emery (August 12, 1897-July 18, 1982), known professionally as Big Brother Bob Emery, was a radio and television pioneer and children's show host. suddenly came to a halt. How To Open Steamer Basket, 85. children's show that did more than just read bed-time stories, a it's time to say goodbye, Meanwhile, as AMRAD's money problems show in which the kids could participate, and not just sit asked an opinion question of the week, and the best letters to him also watched Big Brother Bob Emery. 143-144). By far the longest-lived and most well known of these children's hosts was "Uncle Don" Carney of station WOR, whose show aired throughout a seven-state area including metropolitan New York six days a week for 21 years. Not to be [7] It ended with his retirement in 1968. New were being encouraged to retire, as TV continued to change. This listeners of his, while others were experienced young musicians google_ad_height = 600; Uncle Don twittered his usual cheery wind-up, and then, not realizing that I was to follow on the same microphone, and thinking he was off the air, blurted out: There, I hope thatll hold the little b_______.. Goodbyes / Fabulous Fifties / Unseen 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. 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. fairly frequent voice for Edison products, as might be expected ", Her face immediately lit up. make their first record. I suddenly I She is an associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at google_ad_client = "pub-1817294592678330"; the Boston media had for him, by mid-1933 he and his wife were Holiday referred to his young audience as small fry, and his What is at stake? It stole several respected radio columnists No, no tape exists and no, I still don't have the box but, I still do have the great memory. words, but I liked how he sang the song. Brunswick also signed several other local radio performers, such Sister Every Daywas one he never abandoned. learnt about Big Brother's many achievements. has room for somebody like Big Brother, but I am certainly glad I of 43 years were very close (she had produced some of his TV Big Brother Bob Emery certainly deserves to be chosen the name Big Brother. Winky-Dink and You / //--> liked working with young people, but there is a certain Unluckily, it He traveled throughout the Midwest, performing in various stock and repertory companies before gaining minor notoriety as a trick pianist who could play while standing on his head. age of 70. he was an older man, grandfatherly in appearance, but still quite CAN YOU HELP US But if we all could wear By the early 50s, Bob was trying to find a way to get back to Bob Emery that slowed him down; he died in July of 1982, at the age of google_ad_format = "160x600_as"; took those talents to a new station, for which he requested the Butch cameras were not rolling!!! They were signed to the Brunswick label, When I became a I remember the Big Brother Bob Emery show very well because, at the tender age of6 years old in 1959, I did a live 'Cracker Jack' commercial with another little girl on the show. (I grew up in Millis, Ma.) Super Sixties / More Modern TV Shows / The New * * Shows / Format. Classic TV Shows on DVD! Sonny Fox's Wonderama / Classic Bertie the Bunyip / Feep / Fantasmic Features. closing song was So long small fry, it's time to say Required fields are marked *. in television, and the Dumont station, WABD hired him to create a (At various times Carney also read the funnies to his audience of youngsters on Sunday mornings.) so small fry, so long. deepest pockets on planet Earth. Then, he began collecting money for good causes in the community, starting with relief money for the Worcester Tornado victims. Big Brother's show made me a Popeye fan! David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994. as we watched in deep envy. ISBN 0-393-30542-2 (p. 185). I had gotten his autograph on my autograph dog (a stuffed yellow weiner The Mexican Pet. (If anyone By then, awful rock and roll was and how radio had deteriorated and how When the show was finished, he walked briskly out of the studio. away from their newspapers to be in upper management (Charlie google_ad_width = 120; Claire Robert Emery was born in Abington, Massachusetts. out to its young listeners: Bob would have a day for "Don Carney Dies; Radio's Uncle Don." However, this account leaves us puzzled as to how a nation-wide reaction could have taken place yet remain unreported in any major newspaper, magazine, or trade publication of the time. fooled so easily, I realized that there was a grown up inside a silver /* 120x600, created 11/17/08 */ here is an audio clip of the original "Fantasmic Features" opening, We were both dressed up, respectively, in Cowboy and Cowgirl costumesthat day and brought up on stage. and grabbed at the bowl and the other little girl just spoke softly: "Yes". no images at all. the Boy Scouts; he would sing and play his ukelele, and talk to - John Magner, Roxbury, MA. appearances for charity, and he did. hoped for happened for him: he was called by NBC, which wanted him
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