June 12 - Richard M. Sherman (The Musical Birthday Series)

Richard M. Sherman (b. 12 June 1928) was half of the Sherman brothers team that was a ubiquitous presence in Disney scores from the 1960s to 80s.

Disney Princes

It’s hard to determine

What each brother Sherman

Contributes in each Disney song.

But fate has decided

However divided

As a team they could hardly do wrong.

The keen effervescence

Of pre-adolescence

Is captured in songs by the myriad.

And they learned to unleash

A potent pastiche

To capture a place or a period.

On the edge of annoying,

In danger of cloying,

As earworms extremely efficient.

It may not seem much,

For those Oscars and such,

But apparently it was sufficient.

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