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Prior to their 14-song score for Mary Poppins, songwriting brothers Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman were best-known for the Top Ten hits "Tall Paul" by Annette Funicello and "You're Sixteen" by Johnny Burnette. Mary Poppins changed all that. It won the brothers Academy Awards for best original musical score and best song -- for "Chim Chim Cher-Ee" -- and the soundtrack album won them a Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or TV Show, as well as winning Best Recording for Children. The album also topped the Billboard LP chart for 14 weeks and reportedly sold 2.3 million copies in its first year of release. Of course, all this success could not be the sole result of the brothers' writing ability, as also expressed in memorable songs like "A Spoonful of Sugar," "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," and "Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag)." A great deal of it could be credited to the many unnamed talents at the Disney studio, and not a little to Julie Andrews, who embodied the character of Mary Poppins so perfectly that she never really escaped it. But Mary Poppins had a lot of songs for a movie musical, no less than 13 separate numbers, and they were all very good, from Mrs. Banks' (Glynis Johns) declaration of "Sister Suffragette" to Mr. Banks' (Dave Tomlinson) transfiguration, "Let's Go Fly a Kite." The brothers had clearly paid attention to Andrews' stage triumph My Fair Lady, and not just to learn how to craft songs for her. They wrote what might have been a new song for that show's Henry Higgins character in Mr. Banks' statement of purpose as a self-satisfied British male in "The Life I Lead." But their primary influence was the popular music of the period in which the story was set, Edwardian England, specifically the British music hall style of the pre-World War I era. That gave them the buoyancy and glee of many of the numbers, but the wonderful melodies of songs like "Chim Chim Cher-Ee" and "Feed the Birds" were their own. And they benefited from an excellent cast that included Johns, Tomlinson, and Ed Wynn in minor parts, and Dick Van Dyke (sporting an awful, but nevertheless entertaining Cockney accent) in a major one. Best of all, of course, was Andrews, simultaneously warm and proper, bringing out the best in the material.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Irwin Kostal, ComposerLyricist - Robert B. Sherman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Richard M. Sherman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1989 Walt Disney Records
Glynis Johns, MainArtist - Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Reta Shaw, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Hermione Baddeley, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Irwin Kostal, ComposerLyricist - Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - David Tomlinson, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Karen Dotrice, MainArtist - Matthew Garber, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, Composer - Julie Andrews, Unknown, Other, MainArtist - Richard M. Sherman, Composer
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Irwin Kostal, ComposerLyricist - Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Dick Van Dyke, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Irwin Kostal, ComposerLyricist - Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Julie Andrews, MainArtist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Dick Van Dyke, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Richard Sherman, Unknown, Other - Julie Andrews, MainArtist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Dick Van Dyke, MainArtist - J. Pat O'Malley, Unknown, Other - The Pearlie Chorus, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Julie Andrews, MainArtist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Ted Kryczko, Producer, Executive Producer - Randy Thornton, Unknown, Other
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Julie Andrews, MainArtist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Dick Van Dyke, MainArtist - Ed Wynn, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Irwin Kostal, ComposerLyricist - Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Julie Andrews, MainArtist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - David Tomlinson, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Julie Andrews, MainArtist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - The Disney Studio Chorus, MainArtist - Ted Kryczko, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Allan Davies, Unknown, Other - Bill Lee, Unknown, Other - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - David Tomlinson, MainArtist - Thurl Ravenscroft, Unknown, Other - Dick Van Dyke, MainArtist - The Bankers, MainArtist - Arthur Malet, Unknown, Other - William R. Cole, Unknown, Other
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Julie Andrews, MainArtist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Dick Van Dyke, MainArtist - Karen Dotrice, MainArtist - Matthew Garber, MainArtist - Ted Kryczko, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Irwin Kostal, ComposerLyricist - Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Dick Van Dyke, MainArtist - The Chimney Sweep Chorus, MainArtist - Cast - Mary Poppins, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - David Tomlinson, MainArtist - Dick Van Dyke, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - Richard M. Sherman, ComposerLyricist - David Tomlinson, MainArtist - The Londoners, MainArtist - Dick Van Dyke, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Walt Disney Records
Robert B. Sherman, Unknown, Other, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Richard M. Sherman, Unknown, Other, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Not Available, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1989 Walt Disney Records
Album review
Prior to their 14-song score for Mary Poppins, songwriting brothers Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman were best-known for the Top Ten hits "Tall Paul" by Annette Funicello and "You're Sixteen" by Johnny Burnette. Mary Poppins changed all that. It won the brothers Academy Awards for best original musical score and best song -- for "Chim Chim Cher-Ee" -- and the soundtrack album won them a Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or TV Show, as well as winning Best Recording for Children. The album also topped the Billboard LP chart for 14 weeks and reportedly sold 2.3 million copies in its first year of release. Of course, all this success could not be the sole result of the brothers' writing ability, as also expressed in memorable songs like "A Spoonful of Sugar," "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," and "Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag)." A great deal of it could be credited to the many unnamed talents at the Disney studio, and not a little to Julie Andrews, who embodied the character of Mary Poppins so perfectly that she never really escaped it. But Mary Poppins had a lot of songs for a movie musical, no less than 13 separate numbers, and they were all very good, from Mrs. Banks' (Glynis Johns) declaration of "Sister Suffragette" to Mr. Banks' (Dave Tomlinson) transfiguration, "Let's Go Fly a Kite." The brothers had clearly paid attention to Andrews' stage triumph My Fair Lady, and not just to learn how to craft songs for her. They wrote what might have been a new song for that show's Henry Higgins character in Mr. Banks' statement of purpose as a self-satisfied British male in "The Life I Lead." But their primary influence was the popular music of the period in which the story was set, Edwardian England, specifically the British music hall style of the pre-World War I era. That gave them the buoyancy and glee of many of the numbers, but the wonderful melodies of songs like "Chim Chim Cher-Ee" and "Feed the Birds" were their own. And they benefited from an excellent cast that included Johns, Tomlinson, and Ed Wynn in minor parts, and Dick Van Dyke (sporting an awful, but nevertheless entertaining Cockney accent) in a major one. Best of all, of course, was Andrews, simultaneously warm and proper, bringing out the best in the material.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:00
- Main artist: Various Artists
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Walt Disney Records
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
© 2018 Disney ℗ 1997 Walt Disney Records
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