Big Brother's Brunswick Record - Bob Emery - Recreation of 1926 Big Brother Club WEEI Broadcast 

Yes, I remember it well. We used to leave the neighborhood Elementary school around 11:45, take the short walk home to have lunch, and Big Brother would come on around 12:00 noon. While we had our lunch we would turn on Big Brother and He would sing his theme song, show a Cartoon or two, and then have the toast to the President, followed by his ending theme "So long small fry it's time to say goodbye." After that we walked back to school for the afternoon Session which began around 1:15 PM.

I lived near my grammar school and was able to go home for lunchtime....that allowed me to have my boloney sandwich and camp bell's tomato soup with Big Brother and to end my lunch with a salute to the President of the United States......which was Dwight Eisenhower at the time.....the "grass is Always Greener " song and it's meaning, has stuck with me to this very day....Bob Emery has had a great influence on me......

My mother told me that her younger brother, Richard William Silverman, used to sing on the show, would have been in the late 20s. He died at age 17 of cancer in 1936.

wow I was a real Big Brother fan in the early 50s! He was cool & I loved that song. ... Then I discovered rock & roll!

Ah toasting the president with a glass of milk while looking at a picture of Ike on the screen and listening to 'Hail to the Chief'. Watching a little Pow Wow the Indian Boy and Gumby, then Big Brother Bob would sing the green glasses song. I'd searched for this song for years...thank you for posting it.

While you drank your milk and looked at a picture of Dwight Eisenhower, Hail to the Chief played in the background. The length of that song was how long you had to finish your milk!

Great post! Had my milk ready and toasted the president with him many a time when I was just a "small fry".

I don't remember Big Brother singing much on the TV show, but he always did The Grass is Always Greener" on the ukelele at the begining, and as I remember, usually at the end of the show. Thanks for this. I'm also remembering toasting with my milk to Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. My brother Roger was once one of the many child guests Big Brother had on his show.

My grandfather played the accordion his radio show. Frank Hackett was his name.

Love this…

A fellow cub scout, Ronnie Allen was on his show. he modeled a pair of shoes which they gave to him.

buzzbaybear: Thanks. Not many of us left who remember those day's, and how life seemed a bit slower then!!!! I raise my Milk glass to you!!!!

very cool record,thanks for another neat history lesson!

The "uke" was a common instrument in those days. Probably the most famous player was "Ukelele Ike," Cliff Edwards, who was one of the first "skat" singers, and certainly the first white guy to skat. He is most familiar to most as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio where he sang "When You Wish Upon a Star." Big Brother was a staple in my Grandmothers house during Ike's administration, and, like most youngsters in the Boston area in those days, I looked forward to the "toast to the chief" at lunchtime, the toast being a glass of milk, poured from a glass milk bottle where the cream was a layer on the top.

@mikejaysmith Yes, I will try to put that up for you shortly. It includes Bob Emery singing the Cat Came back, he also counsels boys on the evils of swearing, and also sings his closing WEEI Theme. Thanks for Watching. Victrolaman

So long small fry it's time to say good-bye, come back again tomorrow noon and then, we'll have more fun there's some for everyone...The rest is somewhere in the back of my mind from almost 60 years ago, Sorry!!! Remember the Felix the Cat clock???Get well quick wave???Drank a lot of milk then, along with Hostess twinkies, cupcakes, pb&j sandwiches!!!! Today they would lock you up for not eating the Organic version...How did we survive???

@pianola6588 No, not Bob of Bob & Ray. This is Big Brother Bob Emery of WBZ TV and early Big Brother Club fame on Radio and TV Children's programing fame.

Loved Big Brother and the cartoon Tom Terrific. Master Cylinder the meanie.

nice early broadcast record! I think it's cool that this was played on early radio!

I have a very vague memory of Bob's WBZ-TV afternoon show "Clubhouse 4"; the memory is circa 1963 or 1964. A legend in children's TV from the early days, and apparently he was a star on local radio way back when as well.

So long Small Fry. It's time to say goodbye. Come back again, tomorrow noon and then, we'll have more fun, there's some for everyone. So don't forget we have a date, tomorrow noon, and don't be late, so Small Fry so long!I have an autographed picture of Bob Emery "to My Small Fry Pal" displayed prominently in my office. Printed on the photo is WBZ-TV channel 4, 1215-1245 PM Mon thru Fri.

"So long, small fry it's time to say good-bye, come back again tomorrow noon and then, we'll have more fun there's some for everyone So don't forget, we have a date tomorrow noon, til then... small fry, so long."

Does anyone recall the time when Big Brother Bob Emery thought he was not on the air and he said something like..."You little Bastards!" My uncle, who was an adult at the time, was watching watching this show on WBZ TV in the Boston, Massachusetts area at the time. He clearly remembered it happening at the end of one of the programs. Believe it or not, I have somewhere in my collection of stuff, a recording of all this on a record called, Famous Bloopers!

The sponsor was Junket. The kids had to eat it. No one liked it!

Don`t recall the year, But on WBZ - watching from my home in Dorchester - after-school TV was Big Brother and his peanut gallery. A kindly gentleman. Always surrounded by young kids who he `pandered` to as some great Uncle or whatever. These were B&W live camera days. One day I was watching when camera came on a bit early and there was Big Brother, surrounded by mobbing small kids. He was giving or taking some last minute chat with camera man or whomever, not realizing the camera was live.. This little tyke came over from behind and grabbed onto to Big Brother`s pant leg...`BIG BROTHER, BIG BROTHER`trying to get his attention. Big Brorther tried to shoo the kid away, but the kid held on, BIG BROTHER BIG BROTHER...and Big Brother turned around looked down at the little kid not at all kindly and and said `Get away from me, you little bastard.)` Somebody must have said something, `cause Big Brother looked and realized he was on live camera. (The screen went blank.) I recall it clearly, for bastard was not a kiddy`s word in Irish-Catholic Boston. Glorius `50`s they were.....Pinky Lee collapsing on live TV, Carmen Miranda collapsing on the Durante show., Senator McCarthy providing daily soap opera entertainment..sigh...all we have now is CNN and FOX.

my memory isn't that great...wasn't this on at Noon?...why did we have milk and cookies at noon? The picture of President Eisenhower hanging on the wall...was there a flag too....and didn't I learn how to pledge to the flag from this show???...damn I hate that I can't remember....

@mikejaysmith Ok I have put up part one for your enjoyment. Victrolaman

the 'that oughta hold the little bastards off until tomorrow' remark was allegedly made by "Uncle Don" in New York City who was not the same person as Bob Emery. Emery passed away in l982.

Was this the Bob of Bob and Ray on WBZ? I think not.....

@207nkf ... so don't forget we have a date, tomorow noon now don't be late, so small fry - so long!

Supposedly, according to on line Radio History, his so-called "Little Bastards" remark is an urban legend, rather then actual fact. I remember hearing about it back then, but could never confirm that it actually happened. Some of those legends were so widespread that they take on a life of their own, and people still believe it and mention it even today. Victrolaman