close Video Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines of the week Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific songwriting duo with his brother Robert Sherman, has died at 95.
The Walt Disney Company announced the news on their website on Saturday. "Disney Legend Richard M. Sherman, half of the Academy Award-winning songwriting team of the Sherman Brothers (with his late brother, Disney Legend Robert B.
Sherman), passed away Saturday, May 25, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, due to age-related illness. He was 95 years old," their statement read. It continued: "Generations of moviegoers and theme park guests have been introduced to the world of Disney through the Sherman brothers’ magnificent and timeless songs.
Even today, the duo’s work remains the quintessential lyrical voice of Walt Disney." Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific and award-winning Sherman Brothers songwriting duo, has died at 95.
(Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for AFI) GLYNIS JOHNS, WHO PLAYED MRS BANKS IN 'MARY POPPINS,' DIES AT 100 Sherman, with his brother Robert, earned two Oscars and a Grammy for their work on "Mary Poppins," best score and best original song, for "Chim Chim Cher-ee." Disney’s statement also notes that the film’s song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was a pop hit in 1965, and "Feed the Birds" was one of Walt Disney’s personal favorites.
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