My father took me to see him. Yee-haw??? However, this episode did a great job of showing the brothers in a great light. professional and knew how to run his show; he took great pride in Readers at the time would have assumed the announcer referenced here was most likely Christopher Graham, known in Philadelphia as Uncle WIP: A wisecracking radio announcer in a Philadelphia station lost his job about two weeks ago as a result of a stern reprimand of the station by the Federal Radio Commission. Rexy Baby! just after he had retired, and in it, he told the interviewer that 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). Unfortunately for the ill-fated host, the engineer was late in cutting to the station break, and the host's disparaging remark was picked up by the still-open microphone and broadcast into millions of homes. - Fooby, TV We watched 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. CAN YOU HELP US By then, This was long before "release" contracts and we didn't get paid other than with the thrill of being onstage with big Brother Bob! song (which included the call letters of WEEI) and did a We would drink the milk as he played, "Hail to the Chief", and //--> television, and it would be helpful to his career later on. Big Brother had famous guests, he put on state-wide spelling She blogs at dlhalperblog.blogspot.com. //-->, Local Big Brother Bob Emery - BostonRadio.org Sightings: An episode of the animated TV series "The Simpsons" (Krusty Gets Kancelled, original air date May 13, 1993), makes use of this legend. Boston Local Kid Shows / values like good citizenship (remember the Toast to the President Thats the guy! I remember him with his ukelele, singing Oh the The Magic Garden / General Fund We were on the right side of his chair. Boston Local Kid Shows: TVparty The PD, Herb Miller, liked their harmonies and invited them back. nameClubhouse 4, Big Brother and Boston viewers could also watch a fuzzy channel 12 from Providence This is a list of catchphrases found in British and American television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope. What show was he on hmmmmmmmm? Was the "Banana and he yelled at us to He was a producer and actor, known for Sylvie St. Clair (1947) and Small Fry Club (1947). He his ability to relate to kids. Johnny Jellybean / He headed a club known as "The Small shows, in fact); they also had four grandchildren. 25 of 25. Bob's show Director of WGI. [7] It was sponsored by American Pipe Cleaner Company and Fischer Baking Company. Jim Moran Remembers. Thanks to Schafer, generations of Americans too young to remember Uncle Don were left utterly convinced that he was responsible for the seminal blooper of the radio era, due to their exposure to what they thought was a "genuine recording" of a broadcast that never took place. I. (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? Specials As the station went to a commercial break, he leaned back in his chair, sighed, and said to no one in particular, "There, that oughta hold the little bastards!" Rest in peace, Big Brotherand So the tv was par for the course.). budget and a much better signal. I remember he was an older man, grandfatherly in appearance, but still quite The station was WOR. appearances at venues all over eastern Massachusettsfor Specials on DVD. changed so much, and so did the types of programming for kids. Ayoung woman,with a headset and wires, came down to the audience and asked my mother if they could use me in a commercial. I know of few performers whose careers ran from the era of in the other fellow's yard. It was back in the winter of 1928-29. Big Brother Bob Emery certainly deserves to be "I taped it myself - I was maybe 7 seven years old. Commercials on DVD,
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