Richard Sherman, composer of Mary Poppins and other Disney songs, dies

Richard M. Sherman, composer of great film themes in Disney films, died including ‘Mary Poppins’. Together with his brother Robert, they composed extraordinary songs that appear in classic feature films. disney.

Richard M. Sherman died at age 95 of natural causes, at the Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, several news portals reported this afternoon.

In the biography of Richard Sherman It is written that he was born in Manhattan on June 12, 1928, two and a half years after his brother Robert Sherman. Both were children of a composer mother and father, from whom they would have inherited musical talent.

The Sherman brothers’ first success, as a duo, was released in 1958, sung by Annette Funicello, and Disney there discovered the potential talent of both, who began a musical path in composition with the help of Disney.

The Sherman Brothers wrote over 1,000 songs. and incidental or vocal music for some 50 films and it is clear that the compositions of both have not been equaled or surpassed until now by another author.

Among the duo’s most remembered compositions are the songs from Mary Poppins, with ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ at the helm, also in the songs from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Merlin the Charmer’, ‘Winnie the Pooh ‘, ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, ‘The Slipper and the Rose’, ‘The Aristocats’, ‘The Sword in the Stone’, among many more.

Brothers Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman, the latter deceased during 2012, Without a doubt, they will always be remembered for their compositions that made them worldwide recognized and admired. ‘You’re Sixteen’, composed by both, is one of Ringo Starr’s most successful.

Rest in peace Richard Sherman.

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