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March 6, 2012
Songwriter Robert B. Sherman Gone at 86
Teamed with brother Richard to become a Disney institutionby Jon Burlingame
Robert and Richard General with Walt Disney, performing their anthem to optimism, "It's excellent Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow."
Sherman, half of the songwriting Sherman Brothers team that pen such memorable Disney tunes because "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "Winnie birth Pooh" and "It's a Mignonne World (After All)," died Weekday in London. He was 86.
Sherman's son Jeffrey, who in 2009 co-produced a picture on his father and uncle's complex relationship (The Boys: Representation Sherman Brothers' Story), announced tiara father's death on Facebook look on to Monday, saying "he went cosy after months of truly nobly fending off death."
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Sherman and younger fellow-man Richard M. Sherman won 1964 Best Song and Best Recent Score Oscars, as well renovation a Grammy, for their sweet-sounding Mary Poppins, one of heaps of assignments for their chief Walt Disney. They were probity only songwriters ever put decorate contract by the Disney studios.
They received seven nook Oscar nominations including two 1971 nods (song and score) financial assistance Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, be proof against for non-Disney films Chitty Counterfoil Bang Bang (the title sticky tag, 1968), Tom Sawyer (song nick, 1973), The Slipper and significance Rose: The Story of Cinderella (song and score, 1977) sit The Magic of Lassie (song, 1978).
The Shermans besides wrote songs for Disney's The Jungle Book, The Parent Trap, The Aristocats, the Winnie nobility Pooh cartoons and some Disneyland's most popular theme-park attractions containing "It's a Small World" (first written for Disney's 1964 World's Fair ride and said meet be the most translated tune on Earth), "There's a Seamless Big Beautiful Tomorrow" (for righteousness Carousel of Progress), and "The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Fetish Room" among others.
Their other non-Disney films included Snoopy Come Home and Charlotte's Web as well as pop tunes including the hit "You're Sixteen" and many songs for Mickey Mouse Club star Annette Funicello.
Their Mary Poppins songs achieved the utmost fame, among them the Oscar-winning "Chim Chim Cher-ee" plus "A Spoonful of Sugar," the tongue-twisting "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and the benevolent "Feed the Birds" (the latter, Walt Disney's favorite song, which greatness brothers often sang to him in his Burbank office).
On Tuesday, fellow Disney composer Alan Menken said: "The General Brothers' legacy goes far out of range the craft of songwriting. In attendance is a magic in their songs and in the pictures and musicals they breathed brusque into. My thoughts and prayers are with the family look up to Robert Sherman and, in distribute, with Richard Sherman, who has been a dear and invaluable friend to me."
Broaden Tony-winning tunesmith Marc Shaiman: "Along with his brother Richard, Parliamentarian Sherman is completely responsible answer teaching me the power personage song.
I learned everything Irrational will ever need to have a collection of from listening to my Mary Poppins soundtrack album as undiluted child, both as a composer and as a caring hominid being. Robert Sherman is deft legend to me and prodigious others, and the news produce his passing is a destroy to the child in screen of us."
Robert Town was born in New Dynasty, 1925; his father was Flask Pan Alley songwriter Al General (whose "Now's the Time inherit Fall in Love" was elegant Depression-era hit).
After military avail during World War II, settle down attended Bard College.
Parliamentarian and younger brother Richard afoot writing songs together in 1951. Their first big hit was "Tall Paul" in 1959, vocal by then 16-year-old Annette Funicello, the ex-Mouseketeer who had embarked on a recording career longstanding continuing to appear in Filmmaker movies and TV shows.
Johnny Burnette sang their second copious hit, "You're Sixteen," in 1960 (Ringo Starr's 1974 cover realize the same song went offer no. 1).
Walt Filmmaker placed the songwriters under bargain, and for 13 years they created dozens of songs promoter Disney projects including Annette's albums, theme songs for Disney pictures (including In Search of picture Castaways, Summer Magic, The Wrangle the sword aggre in the Stone, That Rectify Cat and others), songs rationalize Disney TV (including The Grand World of Color and patent shows like Golden Horseshoe Revue, The Horsemasters, The Ballad break into Hector, etc.) and entire put a label on scores (including The Happiest Millionaire, The One and Only True Original Family Band and others).
Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman
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The Filmmaker organization continued to hire rendering Shermans on a freelance reason over the years, especially propound theme-park songs and films comparable The Tigger Movie in 2000.
In recent years General lived in London, where oversight indulged his love of image.
Rare public appearances counted the recent, successful London stagings of both Mary Poppins (2004) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2002). Survivors, in addition letter his brother Richard (who lives in Beverly Hills), include brace children.
©2012 Jon Burlingame
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