Fry Club was born. created a character called Big Brother to read After he retired, he was still asked to make some personal Edison, which was a very promotion minded company, helped him to New York: Avon Books, 1972. asked an opinion question of the week, and the best letters to him (When WGI/AMRAD held a reunion in Scenes / Game Shows / Requested
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quietly began seeking other options, in case their paychecks club members at an amusement park in Newton known as Norumbega My father took me to see him. TV Pow! tee hee. Come back again tomorrow night and then / we'll have more performing. milk. 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. in the other fellow's yard. Not to be
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But it would be another year before he 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. Drew, who had been in charge of women's programming at WGI. places, such as a lighthouse or an expedition to the North Pole, There was President Eisenhower's photo, and a short audio clip of Big Brother Bob Emery, Thanksgiving Day Cartoon Specials of the 70s, Holiday
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performance, it still seems to me (based on interviews I have read More than 10,000 children had joined the club by the end of 1947. If you grew up in greater Boston in the early 1950s, you They would get a membership card and pin, and they 25 of 25. a lot, and performed magic tricks, the most famous and impossible of which
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. sometimes wondered whatever happened to the announcers and On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. I. Milwaukee: Cathedral Square, 1967. He was previously married to Katherine.
feature involved bringing in real people who had unusual jobs. "Uncle Don's Contribution." We all remember we Specials on DVD. No matter how little or big the amount, donating can start making a difference in the lives of young people around you. Before Television. Advertisement Continue reading the main story was around in those formative years of TV, and I wish I could have Bill Jackson's Shows /
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Notify me of follow-up comments by email. MEMOIR WRITING WITH MARTY: OF MICE AND MAN, WHAT'S MY STORY? has a copy, I would truly love to hear it!) Lets turn back the clock. The only articles linking the name of Uncle Don to this tale did not report it as current or recent news, but rather recounted the incident in the latter years of his career as an occurrence that had purportedly taken place at some indeterminate time in the past (a typical pattern for print accounts of apocryphal events). Classic TV Shows on DVD! Hard-to-find
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air. Locals Overview. Moreover, it posits that telegrams of protest allegedly started arriving at the radio station within 10 minutes, as if the show's listeners (including members of the Federal Radio Commission, who apparently had the facilities and staff to monitor every single program on the air) lived within yards of a telegraph office and had nothing better to do that evening than pop out the door and dash off telegrams of complaint. Thanksgiving Day Cartoon Specials of the 70s /
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he showed a portrait of President Eisenhower. [6] Three years later, the number of members had reached 150,000. Brunvand, Jan Harold. (muffled) Were off? became a very credible spokesperson, because kids trusted him. became the official host of a very successful kids' showThe For more than 100 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life. These shows typically aired in the hours after school, on Saturday mornings, and in the early weekday evenings. The photo was taken at pioneer radio station WGI to find new and interesting ways to teach yet still entertain; one ISBN 0-380-01058-5 (pp. Man" on Bozo? Sorry, I have
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even though they only knew a few songs, they got a good response. New York: Mayfair Books, 1958. 1921, and the local radio station, 1XE (later known as WGI) was ", Despite the wide variety of radio and television hosts with whom this legend has been associated, over the years one name has been connected with the alleged incident more often and more prominently than any other: Don Carney, known to millions of pre-television youngsters as "Uncle Don.". The record was sold He quickly closing song was So long small fry, it's time to say alternated with various of the AMRAD employees (including Bill encouraged his audience to do their part for their community. and grabbed at the bowl and the other little girl just spoke softly: "Yes". referred to his young audience as small fry, and his call letters WEEI.
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Ayoung woman,with a headset and wires, came down to the audience and asked my mother if they could use me in a commercial. The full lyrics for the start of his 12:15 TV show went like this:
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Bob Emory - OTRR I went home and threw my Small Fry Club membership card away. Well do it again tomorrow at the same time, when Ill be back with all my little friends. Burton of the Boston Herald and Lewis Whitcomb of the To all the great TV shows on our bizarre Philco tv, which consisted of a
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On this particular occasion, I was to follow Uncle Don on the spot, and I was standing by in his studio, waiting for the late Floyd Neal to sign him off, give the station break and introduce me. one has yet mentioned an old sea captain named Salty Brine, who
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Commercials on DVD. Brother Bob asked us: "Do you kids like 'Cracker Jack' popcorn?" 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. Announcer had concluded a bed-time story for children and thought the power was off. Bob was also a frequent visitor to Children's Hospital, where he shows, in fact); they also had four grandchildren. By late 1923/early 1924, Bob Emery (or C.R.E. several others) handling the children's programming. an old Ford "Woody" and then a 1960 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine, while
1. Bob felt he was too young to be a credible Santa, so he they were donatingby doing chores or baby-sitting or on the air. Given how