The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter — the names bandied around for the title of Greatest American Songwriter are a familiar bunch. Less well-known are the handles of the Sherman Brothers. Yet their songs are just as memorable — maybe moreso. As "Toy Story" director John Lasseter says in the documentary "The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story,"...
Animated Views (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... adventure made up of three individual stories strung together with songs written by the Sherman Brothers (who wrote the music for the original Winnie the Pooh cartoons). It includes the popular A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving special from 1998, along with re-purposed episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh , connected by new animation. The result is a charming Winnie the...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... Incredibly, she lost her suit against Disney for it’s use of the Sherman Brothers tune featured in “Mary Poppins.” I’d be pissed, too. (Actually, Dick Van Dyke’s gawd-awful Cockney accent is grounds enough for a legal action.) Read and comment. From musicformaniacs.blogspot.com.
