I think that the love of his family and each of us kids inspired different things all the time for him. And so they would bring home the songs and I would hear all these songs before anybody else. My uncle usually would play and sometimes my dad would sing backup.
JS: They had this little recording studio. And he went over to the phone and he called Dick and told him that he had something, and the next day they wrote “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” They took out this little cup and put a sugar cube in it and then dropped the medicine and you just ate it.” And my dad looked at me and started shaking his head. And all the shades were closed, it was very dark in the house.Īnd I said, “Oh, we had the polio vaccine at school today.” And he looked at me, he goes “You let someone give you a shot at school? Did it hurt?” And I said, “No, no, no. And then I got home and my dad looked depressed. So I, you know, stood in line with all my friends and we all just took this thing. Well, it happened that that day I was at school, I was about six years old, and they were giving us the oral polio vaccine. My dad and uncle had a favorite song that they had created for Mary Poppins called “The Eyes of Love.” But Walt Disney said, “Could you write something that’s more in line with the philosophy of Mary Poppins?” and it was all just falling flat. He wanted to just know words and he loved the sound of words and how they felt on your tongue. He brought Word Builders on my mom and dad’s honeymoon, my mom complained. And then he would form his words very carefully. People thought maybe he wasn’t listening, but he would always listen. Jeff Sherman (JS): My dad always filtered everything down to its simplest form.
Host: This is a story about finding inspiration in unlikely places. Jeffrey Sherman is the son of Robert Sherman, one half of the Sherman Brothers, the songwriting duo behind many of Walt Disney’s classic films.Īt Stor圜orps, Jeffrey told his wife Wendy about how getting a vaccine as a child sparked the creation of one of the most famous songs in the American canon. Originally aired January 8, 2021, on NPR’s Morning Edition. Robert Sherman’s dedication reads, “Jeff -Thanks for ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ and thanks for being my son! Dad.” Bottom Photo: A Mary Poppins song book from Jeffrey Sherman’s childhood, with special dedication from the Sherman Brothers. Top Photo: A 5-year-old Jeffrey Sherman is pictured with his father, songwriter Robert Sherman, in the early 1960s. In this remembrance of his father, Jeffrey, who is now 63, recorded for Stor圜orps from his home in West Hills, California, where he spoke with his wife Wendy Liebman, 59, about how that day he inadvertently helped spark the creation of one of the most famous songs in the American canon. The Sherman Brothers were in low spirits.īut the conversation Robert had with 5-year old Jeffrey after he arrived home from school changed that. The new phrases they tried kept falling flat. Robert and his brother, Richard, were in the process of writing songs for the Mary Poppins classic film and had a favorite piece called “The Eyes of Love.” Unfortunately, actress Julie Andrews didn’t like the song and Walt Disney had asked them to go back to the drawing board and come back with something more in line with the philosophy of Mary Poppins. Sherman, one half of the Sherman Brothers, the songwriting duo behind many of Walt Disney’s classic films. Jeffrey Sherman was around 5 years old in 1962 when he came home one day and found his father at home, looking depressed.
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