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You mean they never executed him for writing that piece?
‘its a small world...’ has to be one of the worst cloying saccarine, one worldism, POS song ever written.
that being said....some of his other disney efforts were OK.
saw the sherman bros at the elcapitan a few years ago what fun that was.
I do believe “It’s a small world....” is why I originally quit attending Disneyland in Anaheim, California. That damned tune keeps in the head for days, weeks, sometimes months before it can be shaken off. It’s like SuperLeech on the brain.
I recently watched a TV show about The Sherman Brothers. They wrote many,many songs we grew up with. “Winnie The Pooh”, “Mary Poppins”..etc. They fought with each other as they wrote and rarely visited each other outside the studio.
“Bobby Sherman”...... ;)
My favorite work by the Shermans would be “The Slipper and the Rose,” the elaborate non-Disney musical version of Cinderella. Of course, now when you watch it, you have to compartmentalize the fact that Richard Chamberlain is playing the prince.
Oh, you all hate “It’s a Small World?” How novel. How observant and clever and Seinfeld to seize on something universally known and beloved and to set set us all straight about how truly awful it really is. Just like “Jingle Bells.” Or ketchup. You’re mavericks, that’s what you are!
Richard and Robert Sherman were incredibly talented. Their contributions to Walt Disney’s work — who created and defined an artistic vision for America as much as any one person ever has — can’t be overstated. And when you don’t know that or dismiss it and get on the Disney-scoffing cognoscenti bandwagon — well, you’re just enabling the other side in the culture war. And the culture battlefield is where all battles are ultimately won or lost, as Andrew Breitbart observed.
By all means, let’s have tears and shirt-rending for Whitney Houston and Steve Jobs — the left liked them, too! — but that old man who wrote that irritating song? Let’s just mock him.
You dis the Sherman Brothers, you dis America!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
A much better song to be remebered by, if you ask me.
They are in their 80's and in good health, but at some point, my brothers and I are going to have to dispose of it.
So, how do we do it, legally, adhereing to EPA regulations, and without resorting to nuclear weapons, to make sure it is really destroyed and won't come back to haunt future generations?
Sorry to hear of Mr. Sherman’s passing. I think it was 1980 I was with my family at Disneyland and we were riding on the “It’s a Small World” boat ride and something happened. It came to an abrupt halt and we were trapped in our little boat in the ride for about 30 minutes and we must have listened to “It’s a Small World” in multiple languages at least 50 times. To this day when I hear that song I have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and flashbacks to being trapped on that ride.
Talented brothers. RIP.
I really miss Allan Sherman. He was the bonb and here is his song. Another one you can’t get out of your head. LOL
Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh,
Here I am at Camp Grenada
Camp is very entertaining
and they say we’ll have some fun if it stops raining.
I went hiking with Joe Spivy
He developed poison ivy
You remember Leonard Skinner
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.
All the counselors hate the waiters
And the lake has alligators
And the head coach wants no sissies
So he reads to us from something called Ulysses.
Now I don’t want this should scare ya
But my bunkmate has malaria
You remember Jeffrey Hardy
They’re about to organize a searching party.
Take me home, oh muddah fadduh, take me home, I hate Grenada
Don’t leave me out in the forest where I might get eaten by a bear.
Take me home, I promise I will not make noise or mess the house with
other boys, oh please don’t make me stay, I’ve been here one whole day.
Dearest fadduh, darling muddah,
How’s my precious little bruddah?
Let me come home if ya miss me
I will even let Aunt Bertha hug and kiss me.
Wait a minute, it stopped hailing,
Guys are swimming, guys are sailing,
Playing baseball, gee that’s better,
Muddah Fadduh please disregard this letter.