Richard Morton Sherman was born in the spring of 1928 in New York City to Rosa and Al Sherman. Together with his older brother, Robert B. Sherman, "The Sherman Brothers" would follow in their songwriting father's footsteps to form one of the most prolific, lauded and long lasting songwriting partnerships of all time...See full bio »
2011Kinect Disneyland Adventures
(Video Game)
(writer: "Miracles from Molecules" 1967, "It's a Small World" 1964, "The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room" 1963, "Winnie the Pooh" 1966)
2011Captain America: The First Avenger
(music: "Make Way for Tomorrow Today" / as Richard Sherman / lyrics: "Make Way for Tomorrow Today" / as Richard Sherman)
2011Winnie the Pooh
(writer: "Winnie the Pooh", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers")
2011Gnomeo & Juliet
(writer: "The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room" / as Richard Sherman)
2010Epic Mickey
(Video Game)
(music: "It's a Small World" / lyrics: "It's a Small World")
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Our All Time Favourite Films
(2010)
(writer: "A Spoonful of Sugar" - uncredited, "Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious" - uncredited, "Chim-Chim-Cheree" - uncredited)
2010Iron Man 2
(music: "Make Way For Tomorrow Today" / as Richard Sherman / lyrics: "Make Way For Tomorrow Today" / as Richard Sherman / producer: "Make Way For Tomorrow Today" / as Richard Sherman)
2010Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
(Video Game)
(music: "It's a Small World", "Winnie the Pooh" / as Richard Sherman / lyrics: "It's a Small World", "Winnie the Pooh" / as Richard Sherman)
2009The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
(documentary)
(writer: "Panic At The Bank", "Twilight Blue", "Caprice", "Rain Street", "Ambition", "Prayer", "Shadows and Whispers" / music: "Chim Chim Cher-ee", "Let's Get Together", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", "The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room", "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", "I Wanna Be Like You", "Little Black Rain Cloud", "You're Sixteen You're Beautiful & You're Mine", "Toot Sweets", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Mary Poppins Overture Pt. 1", "Mary Poppins Overture Pt. 2", "Mary Poppins Underscore", "My Own Home", "Let's Go Fly a Kite", "Follow Me Boys", "Mr. Banks is Discharged", "It Changes", "Colonel Hathi's March", "Bout Time", "Gold Can Buy Anything But Love", "Things I Might Have Been", "Tall Paul", "Wild Willie", "Pineapple Princess", "Strummin' Song", "Jolly Holiday", "Stay Awake", "Summer Magic Overture", "Feed The Birds", "A Spoonful of Sugar", "The Wonderful World Of Color", "Higitus Figitus Merlin's Magic Song", "Substitutiary Locomotion", "Fortuosity", "Heffalumps & Woozles", "Fundamental-Friend-Dependability", "A Man Has Dreams", "There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow", "The Perfect Nanny", "Father's Footseps", "Through The Eyes of Love", "Let's Go Fly A Kite", "It's a Small World", "That Darn Cat", "Winnie The Pooh", "The Monkey's Uncle", "Up Down Touch The Ground", "Scales And Arpeggios", "Trust In Me", "On The Front Porch", "Me Ol' Bamboo", "You Two", "Hushabye Mountain", "Detroit", "Are We Dancing", "Hushabye Mountain" Live, "Bedknobs and Broomsticks Overture", "Deep In The Dark Charlotte's Lullaby", "Mother Earth And Father Time", "The Aristocats", "The Wonderworld Song", "The Age Of Not Believing", "Gratification", "If'n I Was God", "Your Heart Will Lead You Home", "I Can't Forget The Melody", "The Life I Lead", "Teamwork", "River Song", "Ten Feet Off The Ground", "I Love To Laugh", "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Rap Version", "Ten Feet Off the Ground", "'Bout Time", "On the Front Porch", "That Darn Cat!", "Feed the Birds" / lyrics: "Chim Chim Cher-ee", "Let's Get Together", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", "The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room", "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", "I Wanna Be Like You", "Little Black Rain Cloud", "You're Sixteen You're Beautiful & You're Mine", "Toot Sweets", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Mary Poppins Overture Pt. 1", "Mary Poppins Overture Pt. 2", "Mary Poppins Underscore", "My Own Home", "Let's Go Fly a Kite", "Follow Me Boys", "Mr. Banks is Discharged", "It Changes", "Colonel Hathi's March", "Bout Time", "Gold Can Buy Anything But Love", "Things I Might Have Been", "Tall Paul", "Wild Willie", "Pineapple Princess", "Strummin' Song", "Jolly Holiday", "Stay Awake", "Summer Magic Overture", "Feed The Birds", "A Spoonful of Sugar", "The Wonderful World Of Color", "Higitus Figitus Merlin's Magic Song", "Substitutiary Locomotion", "Fortuosity", "Heffalumps & Woozles", "Fundamental-Friend-Dependability", "A Man Has Dreams", "There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow", "The Perfect Nanny", "Father's Footseps", "Through The Eyes of Love", "Let's Go Fly A Kite", "It's a Small World", "That Darn Cat", "Winnie The Pooh", "The Monkey's Uncle", "Up Down Touch The Ground", "Scales And Arpeggios", "Trust In Me", "On The Front Porch", "Me Ol' Bamboo", "You Two", "Hushabye Mountain", "Detroit", "Are We Dancing", "Hushabye Mountain" Live, "Bedknobs and Broomsticks Overture", "Deep In The Dark Charlotte's Lullaby", "Mother Earth And Father Time", "The Aristocats", "The Wonderworld Song", "The Age Of Not Believing", "Gratification", "If'n I Was God", "Your Heart Will Lead You Home", "I Can't Forget The Melody", "The Life I Lead", "Teamwork", "River Song", "Ten Feet Off The Ground", "I Love To Laugh", "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Rap Version", "Ten Feet Off the Ground", "'Bout Time", "On the Front Porch", "That Darn Cat!", "Feed the Birds" / performer: "There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow", "Through The Eyes of Love", "Scales And Arpeggios", "Twilight Blue", "Caprice", "Rain Street", "Ambition", "Prayer", "Shadows and Whispers")
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420
(2009)
(music: "A Bag of Weed" / lyrics: "A Bag of Weed")
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Peter's Got Woods
(2005)
(music: "I Have James Woods" / lyrics: "I Have James Woods")
2008The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
(TV documentary)
(writer: "Let's Get Together", "Enjoy It!" - uncredited, "Jolly Holiday" - uncredited, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" - uncredited, "Feed the Birds" - uncredited, "I'll Always Be Irish" - uncredited, "The Gnome-Mobile Song" - uncredited, "The Age of Not Believing" - uncredited, "Let's Go Fly a Kite" - uncredited)
2007Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
(Video Game)
(music: "Winnie The Pooh" / as Richard Sherman / lyrics: "Winnie The Pooh" / as Richard Sherman)
2005Kingdom Hearts II
(Video Game)
(music: "Winnie The Pooh", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", "Whoop-de-Dooper Bounce" / as Richard Sherman / lyrics: "Winnie The Pooh", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", "Whoop-de-Dooper Bounce" / as Richard Sherman)
2004The Lion King 1 1/2
(video)
(music: "It's a Small World" / lyrics: "It's a Small World")
2003Piglet's Big Movie
(music: "Winnie the Pooh", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" / lyrics: "Winnie the Pooh", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers")
2003The Jungle Book 2
(music: "I Wan'na Be Like You", "Colonel Hathi's March" / lyrics: "I Wan'na Be Like You", "Colonel Hathi's March")
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Gala Disney
(2002)
(music: "Quiero ser como tú I Wan'na Be Like You - The Monkey Song" / lyrics: "Quiero ser como tú I Wan'na Be Like You - The Monkey Song")
2000The Tigger Movie
(music: "Your Heart Will Lead You Home", "The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers", "Someone Like Me", "The Whoop-de-Dooper-Bounce", "Pooh's Lullabee", "Round My Family Tree", "How to Be a Tigger" / lyrics: "Your Heart Will Lead You Home", "The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers", "Someone Like Me", "The Whoop-de-Dooper-Bounce", "Pooh's Lullabee", "Round My Family Tree", "How to Be a Tigger")
1999Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving
(video)
(music: "Winnie the Pooh", "Seasons of Giving" / lyrics: "Winnie the Pooh", "Seasons of Giving")
1998The Parent Trap
(writer: "Let's Get Together" / as Richard Sherman)
1997MGM Sing-Alongs: Searching for Your Dreams
(video short)
(writer: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Doll on a Music Box" and "Truly Scrumptious", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Reprise")
1996Walt Disney World Explorer
(Video Game)
(writer: "Beautiful Beuhlah", "The Best Time of Your Life", "Chim-Chim-Cheree", "Flitterin'", "It's a Small World")
1994The Lion King
(writer: "It's a Small World" 1966 / as Richard Sherman)
1990Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
(video)
(music: "I Love to Laugh", "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", "Jolly Holiday" / lyrics: "I Love to Laugh", "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", "Jolly Holiday")
1989The Fabulous Baker Boys
(music: "You're Sixteen You're Beautiful and You're Mine" / as Richard Sherman / lyrics: "You're Sixteen You're Beautiful and You're Mine" / as Richard Sherman)
1989Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Fun with Music
(video short)
(music: "Boo Boo Boo", "The Green with Envy Blues", "Scales and Apreggios" / lyrics: "Boo Boo Boo", "The Green with Envy Blues", "Scales and Apreggios")
1988Disney Sing-Along-Songs: You Can Fly
(video short)
(music: "The Beautiful Briny Sea", "Colonel Hathi's March", "Little Black Rain Cloud", "Step In Time" / lyrics: "The Beautiful Briny Sea", "Colonel Hathi's March", "Little Black Rain Cloud", "Step In Time")
1987Disney Sing-Along-Songs: The Bare Necessities
(video short)
(music: "Winnie The Pooh", "I Wanna Be Like You", "The Ugly Bug Ball" / lyrics: "Winnie The Pooh", "I Wanna Be Like You", "The Ugly Bug Ball")
1987Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Heigh-Ho
(video short)
(music: "Up, Down, Touch The Ground", "Let's Go Fly A Kite" / lyrics: "Up, Down, Touch The Ground", "Let's Go Fly A Kite")
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Episode #3.17
(1978)
(writer: "It's a Small World" - uncredited)
1978The Magic of Lassie
(writer: "A Rose Is Not A Rose", "When You're Loved", "There'll Be Other Friday Nights", "Brass Rings And Daydreams", "Nobody's Property", "I Can't Say Goodbye", "Banjo Song", "Travelin' Music", "That Hometown Feeling", "Thanksgiving Prayer")
1977The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
(writer: "Winnie the Pooh", "Up, Down, Touch the Ground", "Rumbly in My Tumbly", "I'm Just A Little Black Raincloud", "Mind Over Matter", "Like a Rather Blustery Day", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", "Heffalumps and Woozles", "The Rain, Rain, Rain, Came Down, Down, Down", "Hip-Hip Pooh-ray!")
1976The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella
(writer: "Why Can't I Be Two People?", "What Has Love To Do With Getting Married?", "Once I Was Loved", "What A Comforting Thing To Know", "Protocoligorically Correct", "A Bride Finding Ball", "Suddenly It Happens", "Secret Kingdom", "He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me", "Position and Positioning", "Tell Him Anything But Not That I Love Him", "I Can't Forget The Melody", "Secret Kingdom" reprise)
1974Huckleberry Finn
(writer: "Freedom", "Huckleberry Finn", "Someday, Honey Darlin'", "Cairo, Illinois", "Rose in a Bible", "Royalty", "The Royal Nonesuch", "What's Right, What's Wrong", "Rotten Luck")
1973Tom Sawyer
(writer: "River Song", "Tom Sawyer!", "Gratifaction", "A Man's Gotta Be What He Was Born to Be", "How Come?", "If'n I Was God", "Freebootin'", "Aunt Polly's Soliloquy", "Hannibal-Mozouree")
1973Charlotte's Web
(writer: "There Must Be Something More", "I Can Talk", "Chin Up", "We've Got Lots In Common", "Deep In the Dark", "Charlotte's Web", "Mother Earth and Father Time", "A Fair is a Veritable Schmorgasboard-orgasboard-orgasboard", "Zuckerman's Famous Pig")
1972Snoopy Come Home
(music: "Snoopy, Come Home", "Lila's Theme Do You Remember Me", "At the Beach", "No Dogs Allowed!", "The Best of Buddies", "Gettin' It Together", "It Changes", "The Best of Buddies" Reprise, "Fundamental-Friend-Dependability" / lyrics: "Snoopy, Come Home", "Lila's Theme Do You Remember Me", "At the Beach", "No Dogs Allowed!", "The Best of Buddies", "Gettin' It Together", "It Changes", "The Best of Buddies" Reprise, "Fundamental-Friend-Dependability")
1971Bedknobs and Broomsticks
(music: "The Old Home Guard", "A Step in the Right Direction", "The Age of Not Believing", "With a Flair", "Eglantine", "Portobello Road", "The Beautiful Briny", "Substitutiary Locomotion", "Nobody's Problems", "Finale Reprise of "The Old Home Guard" / lyrics: "The Old Home Guard", "A Step in the Right Direction", "The Age of Not Believing", "With a Flair", "Eglantine", "Portobello Road", "The Beautiful Briny", "Substitutiary Locomotion", "Nobody's Problems", "Finale Reprise of "The Old Home Guard" / arranger: "Portobello Street Dance")
1970The AristoCats
(music: "The Aristocats", "Scales and Arpeggios", "She Never Felt Alone" / lyrics: "The Aristocats", "Scales and Arpeggios", "She Never Felt Alone")
1968Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
(short)
(writer: "A Rather Blustery Day", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", "Hefalumps and Woozles", "The Rain Rain Rain Came Down, Down, Down", "Hip Hip Pooh-ray!")
1968Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(writer: "You Two", "Toot Sweets", "Hushabye Mountain", "Me Ol' Bamboo", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Truly Scrumptious", "Lovely Lonely Man", "Posh!", "The Roses of Success", "Chu-Chi Face", "Doll On a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious")
1968The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
(music: "The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band", "The Happiest Girl Alive", "Let's Put It Over With Grover", "Ten Feet Off the Ground", "Dakota", "'Bout Time", "Drummin' Drummin' Drummin'", "Oh, Benjamin Harrison" / lyrics: "The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band", "The Happiest Girl Alive", "Let's Put It Over With Grover", "Ten Feet Off the Ground", "Dakota", "'Bout Time", "Drummin' Drummin' Drummin'", "Oh, Benjamin Harrison")
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Disneyland Around the Seasons
(1966)
(writer: "The Wonderful World of Color", "It's a Small World", "Winnie the Pooh" - uncredited, "Step In Time" - uncredited)
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Disneyland Goes to the World's Fair
(1964)
(writer: "The Wonderful World of Color" - uncredited, "it's a small world after all" - uncredited / "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" - uncredited)
1967The Jungle Book
(music: "Colonel Hathi's March The Elephant Song" 1967 - uncredited, "I Wanna Be Like You The Monkey Song" 1967 - uncredited, "Colonel Hathi's March Reprise" 1967 - uncredited, "Trust in Me The Python's Song" 1967 - uncredited, "That's What Friends Are For The Vulture Song" 1967 - uncredited, "My Own Home The Jungle Book Theme" 1967 - uncredited / lyrics: "Colonel Hathi's March The Elephant Song" 1967 - uncredited, "I Wanna Be Like You The Monkey Song" 1967 - uncredited, "Colonel Hathi's March Reprise" 1967 - uncredited, "Trust in Me The Python's Song" 1967 - uncredited, "That's What Friends Are For The Vulture Song" 1967 - uncredited, "My Own Home The Jungle Book Theme" 1967 - uncredited)
1967The Happiest Millionaire
(writer: "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?", "WATCH YOUR FOOTWORK", "VALENTINE CANDY", "I'LL ALWAYS BE IRISH", "BYE-YUM PUM PUM", "ARE WE DANCING?", "THERE ARE THOSE", "LET'S HAVE A DRINK ON IT", "STRENGTHEN THE DWELLING", "FORTUOSITY", "DETROIT", "IT WON'T BE LONG 'TIL CHRISTMAS" - uncredited)
1966Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
(short)
(writer: "Winnie the Pooh", "Up, Down, and Touch the Ground", "Rumbly in My Tumbly", "Little Black Rain Cloud", "Mind Over Matter")
1965Those Calloways
(writer: "The Cabin Raising Song", "Rhyme-Around")
1964Mary Poppins
(writer: "Chim-Chim-Cheree" 1964 - uncredited, "Sister Suffragette" 1964 - uncredited, "The Life I Lead" 1964 - uncredited, "The Perfect Nanny" 1964 - uncredited, "A Spoonful of Sugar" 1964 - uncredited, "Jolly Holiday" 1964 - uncredited, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" 1964 - uncredited, "Stay Awake" 1964 - uncredited, "I Love to Laugh" 1964 - uncredited, "Fidelity Fiduciary Bank" 1964 - uncredited, "Feed the Birds Tuppence a Bag" 1964 - uncredited, "Step in Time" 1964 - uncredited, "A Man Has Dreams" 1964 - uncredited, "Let's Go Fly a Kite" 1964 - uncredited, "A British Bank The Life I Lead" 1964 - uncredited, "Mary Poppins Overture" - uncredited)
1963The Sword in the Stone
(music: "The Legend of the Sword in the Stone" 1963 - uncredited, "Higitus Figitus" 1963 - uncredited, "That's What Makes the World Go Round" 1963 - uncredited, "A Most Befuddling Thing" 1963 - uncredited, "Mad Madame Mim" 1963 - uncredited, "Blue Oak Tree" 1963 - uncredited / lyrics: "The Legend of the Sword in the Stone" 1963 - uncredited, "Higitus Figitus" 1963 - uncredited, "That's What Makes the World Go Round" 1963 - uncredited, "A Most Befuddling Thing" 1963 - uncredited, "Mad Madame Mim" 1963 - uncredited, "Blue Oak Tree" 1963 - uncredited)
1962A Symposium on Popular Songs
(short)
(writer: "The Rutabaga Rag", "Although I Dropped a Hundred Thousand in the Market, Baby I Found a Million Dollars in Your Smile", "I'm Blue For You Boo Boo Boo Boo Boo", "The Boogie Woogie Bakery Man", "Puppy Love is Here to Stay", "Rock, Rumble and Roar", "Charleston Charlie")
1962In Search of the Castaways
(writer: "Merci Beaucoup", "Grimpons!", "Enjoy It", "The Castaways Theme")
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The Sherman Brothers were awarded the 2008 American National Medal of the Arts by President George W. Bush in Washington D.C. for their services to music.
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