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Remembering Disney Legend Richard M. Sherman

Disney Legend Richard M. Sherman, half of the Academy Award ® -winning songwriting team of the Sherman Brothers (with his late brother, Disney Legend Robert B. Sherman), passed away Saturday, May 25, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, due to age-related illness. He was 95 years old. One of the most prolific composer-lyricists in the history of family entertainment, and a key member of Walt Disney’s inner circle of creative talents, Richard garnered nine Academy Award nominations (winning two Oscars ® for his work on the 1964 classic Mary Poppins ), won three GRAMMY ® Awards, and received 24 gold and platinum albums over the course of his 65 year career. His career ran the gamut from the early days of rock n’ roll (with such hits as “You’re Sixteen”) and television to Broadway and Hollywood.

Generations of moviegoers and theme park guests have been introduced to the world of Disney through the Sherman brothers’ magnificent and timeless songs. Even today, the duo’s work remains the quintessential lyrical voice of Walt Disney. The Sherman brothers were perhaps best known for their work on Mary Poppins (1964), for which they won two Oscars: Best Score – Substantially Original and Best Original Song for “Chim Chim Cher-ee.” Another cherished song from the film, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” became a pop hit, entering the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965, while the lullaby “Feed the Birds” became one of Walt’s favorite songs—ever.

“Richard Sherman was the embodiment of what it means to be a Disney Legend, creating along with his brother Robert the beloved classics that have become a cherished part of the soundtrack of our lives,” said Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company. “From films like Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book to attractions like ‘it’s a small world ,’ the music of the Sherman Brothers has captured the hearts of generations of audiences. We are forever grateful for the mark Richard left on the world, and we extend our deepest condolences to his family.”

Pete Docter, Chief Creative Officer, Pixar Animation Studios, said, “You don’t get songs like ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ without a genuine love of life, which Richard passed on to everyone lucky enough to be around him. Even in his 90s he had more energy and enthusiasm than anyone, and I always left renewed by Richard’s infectious joy for life.”

“The Sherman brothers were professional optimists who found a perfect patron in Walt Disney. Their songs had an upbeat outlook that spilled over into Richard’s life, which was not without its troubles and challenges,” said Leonard Maltin, film historian, author, and educator. “He was especially proud that he and his brother carried on a songwriting career like their father, who encouraged them early on.”

Born on June 12, 1928, in New York City, Richard and his brother would, years later, go on to follow in their Tin Pan Alley songwriter father’s, Al Sherman’s, footsteps. The Sherman family relocated to Beverly Hills in 1937, after years of cross-country moves. Richard attended Beverly Hills High School before he majored in music at Bard College. Drafted into the United States Army, he served as conductor for the Army band and glee club from 1953 to 1955.

In 1951, Gene Autry was the first to record a Sherman brothers song, “Gold Can Buy You Anything But Love.” But the songwriters’ big break wouldn’t come until seven years later, when Mouseketeer (and fellow future Disney Legend) Annette Funicello recorded their song “Tall Paul.” That tune peaked at No. 7 on the charts, selling more than 700,000 singles.

The success of such songs caught the attention of Walt, who hired the Sherman brothers as staff songwriters for The Walt Disney Studios. Their first assignment: write a song for the made-for-television movie The Horsemasters (1961), starring Funicello. Soon, they would contribute to such feature films as The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), The Parent Trap (1961), Summer Magic (1963), The Sword in the Stone (1963), Mary Poppins (1964), That Darn Cat! (1965), Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), The Jungle Book (1967), The Happiest Millionaire (1967), The Aristocats (1970), and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). They would ultimately write more than 200 songs for some 27 films and 24 television productions.

They also contributed music for a number of theme park attractions around the world, including “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,” “The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room,” and “It’s a Small World”—the latter of which Richard once described as “a prayer for peace.” In the early 1980s, the brothers returned to write songs for EPCOT Center (now known as EPCOT) and Tokyo Disneyland, including “One Little Spark” and “Meet the World.”

In the early 1970s, the Sherman brothers left The Walt Disney Studios to pursue other film projects. Following their work with Disney, the Sherman Brothers went on to provide an array of music, songs and occasional screenplays to such memorable family films as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Snoopy Come Home (1972), Charlotte’s Web (1973), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1973), Huckleberry Finn (1974), and The Slipper and the Rose (1976).

The Sherman brothers made history in 1973 by becoming the only Americans ever to win 1st Prize at the Moscow Film Festival. The Russian equivalent to the Oscar was bestowed to the Sherman Brothers for their film musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , for which they penned the script and songs. In 1976, The Slipper and the Rose was selected for Great Britain’s annual Royal Command Performance. This film similarly features a Sherman brothers’ screenplay and musical/song score.

Richard and his brother were inducted as Disney Legends in 1990.

In 1992, Walt Disney Records released a retrospective collection of their music,  The Sherman Brothers: Disney’s Supercalifragilistic Songwriting Team . The brothers returned to the studio in 1998 to compose music for  The Tigger Movie ; that year, they also penned their autobiography,  Walt’s Time: From Before to Beyond . In 2009, a second compilation of hits,  The Sherman Brothers Songbook , was released, and their life stories were told in the documentary film  The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story (directed by Richard’s son, Gregory V. Sherman, in collaboration with Robert’s son, Jeffrey Sherman).

In 2005, Richard and Robert were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Three years later, the brothers were awarded the National Medal of the Arts, “for unforgettable songs and optimistic lyrics that have brought magic to the screen and stage. The Sherman brothers’ music has helped bring joy to millions.” During the ceremony, held at the White House, First Lady Laura Bush noted, “These medals recognize great contributions to art, music, theater, literature, history, and general scholarship… Recipients of the National Medal of the Arts represent the breadth of American creativity and the depth of the human spirit.”

In 2010, Richard and fellow award-winning composer John Debney collaborated on the song “Make Way for Tomorrow Today” for Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 2 . That same year, The Walt Disney Company saluted the Sherman brothers for their musical contributions to Disney Parks worldwide. They were honored with their very own “window” on Main Street, U.S.A. (at Disneyland Park in California), which states: “Two Brothers Tunemakers – Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman: We’ll Write Your Tunes For a Song.”

Richard was preceded in death by his brother in 2012. The following year, actors B. J. Novak and Jason Schwartzman portrayed Robert and Richard, respectively, in Saving Mr. Banks (2013), a dramatized account of the making of Mary Poppins . Five years later, The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, rededicated Stage A as the Sherman Brothers Stage. At the time, Richard said, “It’s been a joy, it’s been an honor, and it’s been a privilege to work here at The Walt Disney Studios, working for Walt Disney and for all the brilliant, brilliant people with whom Bob and I associated through the years.”

In 2015, a television special chronicling his life, Richard M. Sherman: Songs of a Lifetime , produced by Disney Legend Don Hahn, debuted on PBS SoCal. Also in 2015, for the Disneyland Resort Diamond Celebration, Richard contributed the song “A Kiss Goodnight,” which was tied to his 2017 book of the same title from Disney Editions. For The Walt Disney Studios, Richard wrote new lyrics for the live-action The Jungle Book (2016) and two years later appeared in Christopher Robin , for which he composed three new songs.

Most recently, Richard wrote a new song (with composer Fabrizio Mancinelli) for Disney Legend Andreas Deja’s 2023 animated short, Mushka . The song, entitled “Mushka’s Lullabye,” was sung by acclaimed soprano Holly Sedillos.

In 2023, Walt Disney Animation Studios revisited its 100-year history in the short film Once Upon a Studio . Richard returned to Walt’s office —the same place he and Robert would often perform “Feed the Birds” for Walt on Friday afternoons—to play piano in a key sequence.

Richard is survived by his wife of 66 years, Elizabeth; son Gregory and grandsons William and Matthew; daughter Victoria Wolf, son-in-law Doug Wolf, and grandchildren Mandy and Anthony. He is also survived by his daughter from a previous marriage, Lynda Rothstein, as well as her two children and three grandchildren. A private funeral is scheduled to take place Friday, May 31, at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles. Plans for a celebration of life will be announced at a later date.

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To Walt Disney, who personally invited Richard and Robert Sherman to become full-time staff songwriters at his Burbank studio in 1960, they were the “boys.”

The Sherman brothers were the ideal match for Disney’s family-film factory, where they built a career creating what Richard Sherman once described as “upbeat, spirited, happy songs that make people feel good.”

The songwriting siblings were responsible for the bouncy, tongue-twistingly memorable “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and “A Spoonful of Sugar” from the hit 1964 movie musical “Mary Poppins,” for which they won two of the film’s five Oscars — for score and song, for the haunting “Chim Chim Cher-ee.”

During their years at the studio, the Shermans were as much a part of the early Disney magic as the imagineers, who designed the theme parks and created the rides. Together, they wrote dozens of songs for Disney TV productions and movies including “The Parent Trap,” “The Absent-Minded Professor,” “Summer Magic,” “That Darn Cat!,” “The Sword in the Stone,” “The Jungle Book,” “The Aristocats,” “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” and “Winnie the Pooh” cartoons.

They also penned the theme song for Disney’s TV show “The Wonderful World of Color” and wrote songs heard in Disney theme-park attractions, including “The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room,” “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” and the unforgettable — in ways both good and bad —“It’s a Small World (After All).”

“They were made by God for Walt Disney,” said Dick Van Dyke, who starred in “Mary Poppins” opposite Julie Andrews. “They somehow managed to convey Walt’s meaning in those songs.”

The gregarious half of the prolific songwriting duo, Sherman died May 25, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, due to age-related illness. He was 95. The Walt Disney company announced the news of his death in a press statement.

Robert Sherman, who was 2½ years older than his brother, died in London in 2012 at age 86.

The brothers were struggling songwriters when they (and Bob Roberts) wrote “Tall Paul,” which became a No. 7 hit in 1959 for Annette Funicello, whom the brothers regarded as their “Luck Star.”

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That led to the Shermans writing a string of other pop songs for the ex-Mousketeer, including the hit “Pineapple Princess.” And that, in turn, led to assignments writing songs for various film and TV productions at the Disney studios.

During one fateful meeting with “the boys” in August 1960, Disney handed them a copy of a book and said, “Read it, and tell me what you think.”

The book was “Mary Poppins,” P.L. Travers’ tale of a magical English nanny.

Sherman considered “Mary Poppins,” which starred Andrews in the title role and Van Dyke as Bert the chimney sweep, as “the turning point in our lives, and it’s the highest point in our career.”

After reading the book, he and his brother “underlined some chapters that we felt were really musical. And when we showed Walt our notes and played the song sketches, he pulled out his book, and he’d underlined the very same chapters,” Sherman recalled in a 2011 interview with the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass.

At the end of their meeting, Disney surprised them by asking them if they’d like to work full-time at the studio.

It was, Sherman said, “the greatest day of our lives.”

He never forgot the moment, once “Mary Poppins” got underway, when he first heard Andrews singing one of their songs for the movie.

“She sang ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ in her incredible voice,” he recalled in a 2011 interview with the Philadelphia Daily News. “I was sitting in [the recording] booth listening to it, and I was crying. It was magical.”

Van Dyke told The Times after Robert Sherman died that the Sherman brothers were “deeply involved” throughout the filming of “Mary Poppins,” which earned Andrews a lead actress Oscar.

“They were always on the set helping Julie and I with our interpretation of the songs,” he said. “They had a lot to do with the atmosphere, the lightness.”

The Shermans’ hauntingly poignant “Feed the Birds,” sung about an older woman selling bags of crumbs to feed the hungry birds, was Disney’s favorite song from “Mary Poppins.”

The song, Sherman told the Philadelphia Daily News in 2011, was really a “prayer for understanding — be kind, give love. It doesn’t cost anything.”

When Disney first heard their musical concept for the song, he told them, “That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?”

From then on, Disney would often meet with the Shermans in his office on Friday afternoons to discuss what was going on at the studio. Then he’d say, “Play it.”

“So I would play piano and sing ‘Feed the Birds’ for him,” Richard Sherman recalled in a 2004 Sacramento Bee interview. “Then he’d say, ‘Well, have a good weekend, boys,’ and we’d go home. That was our Friday afternoon.”

After Disney died in 1966, “It just wasn’t the same,” Sherman said in a 1985 Times interview. “I really don’t want to say anything negative about anyone [at Disney]. It just wasn’t the same with Walt gone.”

After leaving the studio in 1968, the Sherman brothers wrote songs for films such as “Charlotte’s Web” and collaborated on screenplays for films such as “Tom Sawyer,” “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella” and “The Magic of Lassie.”

They also wrote the music and lyrics for the Tony Award-nominated 1974 Broadway musical “Over Here!” starring Maxene and Patty Andrews.

Besides their two Oscar wins for “Mary Poppins,” they received five Oscar nominations for their work on “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” “Tom Sawyer” and “The Slipper and the Rose.”

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The Shermans, who were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, were awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2008 for their creation of music that “has helped bring joy to millions.”

The son of Tin Pan Alley songwriter Al Sherman, Richard Sherman was born in New York City on June 12, 1928. The family moved to Beverly Hills in 1938.

While Richard attended Beverly Hills High School during World War II, Robert served in the Army in Europe, where he was among the first GIs to enter the Dachau concentration camp after the Germans fled, and was later seriously wounded in the knee.

After the war, both brothers entered Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Robert studied literature; Richard majored in music.

After they graduated, Richard had ambitions of becoming a symphonic composer and his brother had designs on writing the great American novel. But as Richard later recalled, “Nothing was happening with either of us.”

They were sharing a small apartment above a dry cleaner on West Pico Boulevard in 1951 when their father offered them a challenge: Write a song that some kid would give up his lunch money to buy.

They wound up writing a country-western song called “Gold Can Buy Anything (But Love),” which was recorded by singing cowboy star Gene Autry in 1951.

More songs followed, but the brothers went their separate ways after Richard served a stint in the Army from 1953 to 1955.

Both had written songs with other partners before they reteamed in 1958 for “Tall Paul.” Among their hits was Johnny Burnette’s 1960 recording of “You’re Sixteen,” which peaked at No. 8. It reached No. 1 in 1974 when Ringo Starr recorded the song.

Although Richard was primarily the composer and Robert the lyricist, they typically worked together on both the words and music. Indeed, when asked who did what, their standard reply was, “He writes the words and the music, and I write the music and the words.”

Despite their close professional collaboration — they often completed each other’s sentences — the Sherman brothers and their families led separate personal lives beginning in the mid-’60s.

Their strained personal relationship was revealed in the 2009 documentary “The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story,” directed by Richard’s son, Gregory; and Robert’s son, Jeff.

“There wasn’t a single specific incident. But I remember the walls going up between our fathers and our families in 1965,” Jeff Sherman told the Toronto Star in 2009.

“Bob and I have great love and respect for one another, and during our professional lives we maintained a façade of unity,” Richard said. “But in order to keep working together we came to an agreement to live our personal lives apart, completely separate. We were comfortable working together, but otherwise it would have been explosive.”

They were, he said, “very different people.”

“In the broadest terms, Bob is an introvert who wanted to write great novels, and I was the showman,” he said. “I loved to perform, and he’d rather sit in a corner reading a book. …

“We’re not idiots. We had something good going on. Success and creativity won out over petty personal differences. There was no way we were going to let those differences destroy our work.”

Richard is survived by his wife of 66 years, Elizabeth; son Gregory and grandsons William and Matthew; and daughter Victoria Wolf, son-in-law Doug Wolf and grandchildren Mandy and Anthony. He is also survived by his daughter from a previous marriage, Lynda Rothstein, as well as her two children and three grandchildren. A private funeral is scheduled to take place May 31 at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles. Plans for a celebration of life will be announced at a later date.

McLellan is a former Times staff writer.

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