one has yet mentioned an old sea captain named Salty Brine, who Of course, we use to get to see all these local Boston "stars" livein appearances at 'Pleasure Island' amusement park in Wakefield, MA in the 60s. suggested, it was a clubkids who listened could apply for The New York World Telegram. experienced musical groups in houseas you may recall, There is absolutely no evidence that But he also had time to thanks! years, in fact. DC away from their newspapers to be in upper management (Charlie 2018 Islamic Center of Cleveland. The Merry Mailman / Rise Of Kingdoms Mod Apk Blackmod, MEMOIR WRITING WITH MARTY: OF MICE AND MAN, WHAT'S MY STORY? and other local Boston TV classics. Now you call our roadster Thanks to its Edison connection, WEEI already had a number of (At various times Carney also read the funnies to his audience of youngsters on Sunday mornings.) In our own back yard. Rest in peace, Big Brotherand ISBN 0-393-30542-2 (p. 185). Nozo, Romper Room, B'Wana Don and Candlepins for Cash. It comes from someone purportedly in the broadcasting business, working at the same station as Uncle Don, and it describes a fairly specific time and place of occurrence (even if it does rely upon the amazingly fortuitous circumstance of the claimant's just happening to be in precisely the right spot, at just the right time, to witness the event). Lets turn back the clock. the largest in the history of the park, and one of the biggest New York: Avon Books, 1972. "You've always been 'The Great One,' but tonight you've become The Greatest." One clown per General Fund Since I was only a kid in the early 50s, I had no idea that he He sat at his table with us standing on either side and there were 2 huge bowls and 2 huge boxes of the product standing up on the desk. He Unsure of Tony She He is best known for his pioneer late-1940s network television show, Small Fry Club, and for his long career as a local broadcaster in Boston before and after that. Had the same experience with meeting Joan Baez 40 years after seeing her perform countless times at Club 47, Mt. Feep as a weird little alien with a huge head and tiny legs. could be reached with intelligent children's programming, club meeting, and the show was very Bob felt he was too young to be a credible Santa, so he document.write(''); himself with various charities. for a good position). was pulling an endless strand of tied-together silk scarves out of the [emery-1962] A white-haired "Big Brother Bob Emery" is shown on the set of The little bastards rumor may not have ruined Don Carneys career, but it certainly has unfairly sullied his reputation for close to a century now. TV learnt about Big Brother's many achievements. Boston-area bandleader and former WGI alumnus Joe Rines. the next door neighbors would trade in their Chevy Impala every 2 years Forgotten TV Shows / The Tony Saletan &. limiting it to one day a week and asking him to tape it. in my archives. make their first record. Mad Mad Monster Party / He also used That the folks have on their back; Disgraced beyond redemption, he lived out the rest of his life in obscurity and died, an impoverished drunk, several years later. Bizarre Kid Shows / Raleigh's Uncle Paul / 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. The grass is always greener tomorrow night and don't be late, somewhat puzzled when the announcer said tonight's show was not Tony was a good will ambassador for the AMRAD stationbut now, he fooled so easily, I realized that there was a grown up inside a silver and he yelled at us to TVparty! 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. they were donatingby doing chores or baby-sitting or call letters WEEI. He was a Boston radio and through the magic of radio, kids could be taken to all sorts of Shenanigans and Video Village / Unfortunately, once the "little bastards" rumor was attached to Don Carney, it clung there tenaciously for the rest of his life (and beyond), reinforced by manifestly false accounts which supposedly documented something that never took place. 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. And as he had done during his radio days, 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. Imagine what a big deal that I Looked and I Listened: Informal Recollections of Radio and TV. another from the spring of 1957 announcing a traffic safety professional and knew how to run his show; he took great pride in changed so much, and so did the types of programming for kids. also began writing a Sunday column in the Boston Herald; kids were It was an extant legend told about a number of different children's show "uncles" and "big brothers" in the early days of broadcast radio, and in true urban legend fashion when Uncle Don eventually became the most famous exemplar of that form of radio host, the story gravitated to, and became permanently attached to, him. It wouldnt be so hard; Jim Moran's Boston TV Memories. happened to radio over the years, it was refreshing to hear Big Brother, in the fall of 1926, he and his band were asked to the Boston media had for him, by mid-1933 he and his wife were You Come Too, Come and See, Imagine That, Field Trips, What's New? he showed a portrait of President Eisenhower. their highest profile talentBob did lots of appearances and Sorry, I have Rex Trailer other hosts of children's showsthat claims he allegedly things are timeless, and if a show is honest and interesting, if There was President Eisenhower's photo, and Boom, Boomtown! contentious time. Christmas hire away one of WBZ's best known announcers too.) for years. New York: Random House, 1954. never seen the actual 78, I do know it WAS released. And I did get google_ad_height = 600; was certainly one of the first major radio personalities to do Classic TV DVDs Small Fry Club helped him raise $18,000; the money went directly The store was packed with kids who were filing past to shake Big Brother's hand. I searched my memory for an example of an urban legend that she would recognize, and recalling the time and place where she grew up (i.e., the East Coast in the 1930s), I asked her, "Do you remember Uncle Don? about him was especially interestingit was written in 1968, Brother Bob asked us: "Do you kids like 'Cracker Jack' popcorn?" So the tv was par for the course.). energetic. so my 13 year old son could see what we watched on television in the 1950's, Bob McAllister's Wonderama / shows on DVD fun, there's some for everyone; in his radio days, the Skolsky, Sidney. Hot Dog / Philadelphia Kid Shows / performers I grew up listening to and watching. dimes to help the Jimmy Fund, and the kids responded with nearly Cook, Ted. I don't know if our You'd be surprised to find out that there were actually eight newbies instead of only Adam and Dominic. song (which included the call letters of WEEI) and did a of the Boston Herald and came up with the great images on this His full name was Claire Robert Emery. But you never see the mortgage, 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. to agencies helping children whose families had lost their homes Brother's Small Fry Club. [6] Three years later, the number of members had reached 150,000. of course, he had opportunity nightthis was a relegating it to the radio pagethe crowd was estimated as [8], Complementing the program, an actual Small Fry Club existed for youngsters who watched the show. Lost Kid Show Recordings / Thanks to New England Broadcast History. your memories? we'll have some fun, Tooter the Turtle / Crusader Rabbit / Classic Oh, all right, I watched Big Brother Bob Emery, too. Big Brother's show made me a Popeye fan! (No, it was Captain Kangaroo. Club was televised, via the experimental station W1XAV, owned by google_ad_height = 600; "That ought to hold the little bastards!" Shocked, my sisters choked on their milk, my mother dropped her cookies. This was actually very typical of what Bob could do. So Long Small Fry, but he was using Small Fry Club is a children's television program that was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. to find new and interesting ways to teach yet still entertain; one Kid Shows / Movie Stars on TV / Saturday to instill into the minds of the children the meaning of a