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With ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ songwriter Richard Sherman relives the pain of ‘Mary Poppins’

85-year-old Richard Sherman is a character in the Disney holiday release “Saving Mr. Banks” opposite Emma Thompson as Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney.   Jason Schwartzman plays Sherman and B.J. Novak plays Sherman’s brother and songwriting partner, Robert B. Sherman. Schwartzman, who at 33 is two years older than Sherman was in 1961, sings “Feed the Birds” beautifully…

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Songwriting podcast with Richard Sherman of Disney’s Sherman Brothers

              Sodajerker, a British podcast devoted to songwriting, produced a great one-hour episode with Disney songwriting legend Richard M Sherman, half of the Sherman Brothers team that gave us everything from “It’s a Small World” to “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (and lots more).   Hearing Sherman talk about his work is fascinating.

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