Robert B. Sherman
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Sherman in 2002
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| Born |
Robert Bernard Sherman December 19, 1925 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 6, 2012 (aged 86) London, England, UK |
| Resting place | Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Robert Sherman Bob Sherman "Bob" "Moose" |
| Occupation | Songwriter, screenwriter, publisher |
| Years active | 1950–2012 |
| Spouse(s) | Joyce Ruth Sasner (m. 1953; d. 2001) |
| Children | 4 including Robert |
| Parent(s) |
Al Sherman Rosa (Dancis) Sherman |
| Website | http://www.shermanmusic.com |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Musical film, musical theatre, animation |
| Instruments | Violin, Piano |
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Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman. According to the official Walt Disney Company website and independent fact checkers, "the Sherman Brothers were responsible for more motion picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history." Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known songs were incorporated into live action and animation musical films including: Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Slipper and the Rose, and Charlotte's Web. Their most well known work, however, remains the theme park song "It's a Small World (After All)". According to Time.com, this song is the most performed song of all time.
Robert Bernard Sherman was born on December 19, 1925, in New York City, to Russian Jewish immigrants, Rosa (Dancis) and Al Sherman. Al Sherman, a songwriter, paid for Robert's hospital delivery costs with a royalty check that had arrived that day for the song "Save Your Sorrow". His brother and later songwriting partner, Richard, was born in 1928. Sherman's father later became a well known Tin Pan Alley songwriter.
As a youth, Robert Sherman excelled in intellectual pursuits, taking up the violin and piano, painting and writing poetry. Following seven years of frequent cross-country moves, the Shermans finally settled down in Beverly Hills, California. Some of the primary schools Robert attended in Manhattan included PS 241 and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School; in California, the El Rodeo School. Throughout his years at Beverly Hills High School, he wrote and produced radio and stage programs for which he won much acclaim. At age 16, he wrote Armistice and Dedication Day, a stage play centered on contemporary 1940s Americans that showed how their lives were inextricably changed following the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. The play yielded thousands of dollars for War Bonds and earned a special citation from the War Department.
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