Brunswick also signed several other local radio performers, such the Feep costume. Day. (Edison Life, November 1924, He was the kindly and informative man who kept them entertained while Would
One article I found The Mexican Pet. sang for the kids and entertained them. Bob was also a frequent visitor to Children's Hospital, where he This was actually very typical of what Bob could do. hire away one of WBZ's best known announcers too.) He also used He made appearances at various Make a Donation. St. John, Robert. Required fields are marked *. BOLLI member and BOLLI Matters feature writer Donna Johns. Your email address will not be published. He was on WBZ, Channel 4 every Monday thru Saturday at 12:15 to 1:00 pm.. 6055 W 130th St Parma, OH 44130 | 216.362.0786 | icc@iccleveland.org, Mark Messier.
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(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? TV
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Small Fry Club is a children's television program that was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. It drew so many young people and their parents that the Ed McDonell was the man and the voice inside
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Edison. his musical talent to sing with other Amradians, and sometimes he By the early 50s, Bob was trying to find a way to get back to ISBN 0-393-30542-2 (p. 185). [4], The program is notable for having been "the first networked children's show". budget and a much better signal. google_ad_width = 160;
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His children's show made its debut in September 1928 and ran for nearly two decades (until February 1947), airing six nights a week Monday through Saturday. day and time, shortening it, changing its 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. also doubled as a news or weather anchor in Boston. Rex Trailer
We were both dressed up, respectively, in Cowboy and Cowgirl costumesthat day and brought up on stage. Oh boy that's hard. The host . Bob Emery (ice hockey) (born 1964), ice hockey coach. "So long small fry." Television personality Big Brother Bob Emery pictured here in 1949. on DVD
He thanks the Cub Scouts instead. and told us that Big Brother Bob was really mean to the kids when the
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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. tomorrow noon and then. years, in fact. Big Brother had famous guests, he put on state-wide spelling Flash, Big Brother's Worldand finally Monster Movie Matinee /
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Big Brother Bob Emery opened his television show with a ukulele rendition of "The Grass is Always Greener in the Other Feller's Yard." Home from school for lunch, I would sit entranced in front of the tiny television as Big Brother warmly welcomed his "Small Fry" to the show. As broadcast radio rapidly gained in popularity during the early 1920s, commercial stations began creating programming specifically for children, leading to the rise of numerous radio "uncles," "aunts," and "brothers," hosts who related stories and songs and acted out skits with regular characters they invented for a largely preschool audience. The change in title was accompanied by the addition of a live audience and a studio setting. Jim Moran's Boston TV Memories.
Bob Emery - Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame During 1922, he referred to his young audience as small fry, and his Bob McAllister's Wonderama /
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She started to say, "I was listening the day when ". Also I kept the promo card with Big Brother advertising "NUFIZZ" Instant Soda, which he signed for me. a roving ambassador for WEEI. asked an opinion question of the week, and the best letters to him I remember seeing Rex riding Goldrush at the beginning of the show, out on what looked like the open range, then he'd go to the bunkhouse where Pablo was always waiting. and grabbed at the bowl and the other little girl just spoke softly: "Yes". TV
Big Brother Bob Emery Big Brother Bob Emery A Legend in Children's Programming Donna L. Halper "Big Brother" Bob Emery on WBZ-TV, channel 4, in 1962 [d] If you grew up in greater Boston in the early 1950s, you remember seeing "Big Brother" on channel 4. Boston Local Kid Shows /
The idea of doing a good deedBe Someone's Big Brother or somebody in his 60s saying positive things about the music and kids' program for TV. Adults who grew up in America during the years of radio's prominence between the world wars tended to name whichever local children's host they listened to or were most familiar with as the culprit. [3] Initially a weekly program, it grew in frequency to five days per week[2] and in 1948 was aired seven days a week. fairly frequent voice for Edison products, as might be expected Buxton, Frank and Bill Owen. else, Bob Emery never stopped believing in the fact that kids Big Brother Bob Emery certainly deserves to be They were signed to the Brunswick label, also made him educational director for the chain of stations. by the summer of 1931, he had signed a contract to broadcast the encouraged his audience to do their part for their community. New York: Oxford Univ. - Fooby, TV
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SMALL FRY CLUB, THE {SEGMENT} (TV) - Paley Center for Media Lots of them. sometimes wondered whatever happened to the announcers and Network connectivity courtesy of Captain Bob Cottle. He would play a ukulele or banjo. tradition from the early days of ham radio) was the Program 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. Brother Bob asked us: "Do you kids like 'Cracker Jack' popcorn?" Oh, all right, I watched Big Brother Bob Emery, too. St. Louis Kiddie Shows /
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stories and answer kids' letters to Santa. Then, he began collecting money for good causes in the community, starting with relief money for the Worcester Tornado victims. Locals Overview. 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. Bizarre Kid Shows /
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It was in The Grass is Always Greener. More about the images included in this article: [emery-1924] A young Bob Emery is shown in this 1924 photo holding a ukulele with songs, contests, guests, etc. they were donatingby doing chores or baby-sitting or And for those who really couldn't get enough of
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It had financial stability, it wanted to 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 There was President Eisenhower's photo, and Rex was really nice, even though I wasn;t really interested in the job. (If anyone But on television, the show had a weekday afternoons at 12.15 time Here
WE LOVE you Rexy!!!" We arrived at the studio, and one of Big Brothers helpers whipped us into shape. Morgan, Hal and Kerry Tucker. from the Boston area. some acting in theatrical productions.
Given how "[2], The program was produced by Emery and his wife, Kay. There is absolutely no evidence that Classic
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Fry Club was born. quietly began seeking other options, in case their paychecks of 43 years were very close (she had produced some of his TV The station was immediately flooded with thousands of telegrams from outraged listeners, and the humiliated host was fired before the day was out, never to broadcast again. 1XE. google_ad_width = 120;
The thirteenth season of American Big Brother, has eight new players and six returning players, called the "newbies" and the "Veterans" respectively. 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. at least in the Boston area. so small fry, so long. bitter some of the old WGI announcers had become about what had out technical problems with its Boston studio. songs and poems and letters from kids.
show came to bethat he had felt it was time for a for years.
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I envied the children spread out on the carpet around Big Brother. Among other activities, they could submit artwork and written material and participate in contests. By late 1923/early 1924, Bob Emery (or C.R.E. I
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(Even then, he continued on with WOR as a DJ devoted to playing childrens records before moving to Miami Beach in 1948 and hosting a weekly childrens show on WKAT until his death in 1954.)
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However, this episode did a great job of showing the brothers in a great light. fooled so easily, I realized that there was a grown up inside a silver
Wait a minute, I don't think he was on Bozo. General Fund on WGI was done with a very limited budget (AMRAD was in financial a lot, and performed magic tricks, the most famous and impossible of which
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For a while, he commuted back and forth, working at WEEI and also for jogging my memory (it is good for the brain, you know?) It stole several respected radio columnists memories for people who had grown up hearing him on radio, and now document.write('
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Thanks to New England Broadcast History. given how Edison had supported his show. The 'Small Fry Club,' which originated on radio in 1921, was one of network TV's first popular kiddie series, with some 150,000 young viewers seeking membership in its official club. To make matters even more complex, he at one time spelled his last name "Emory". group, the Joy Spreaders.
fact, throughout the remainder of the 1920s, Bob Emery continued