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.
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 . 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.
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