"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" writer dies

[+ azdr0710]

read the news article.....

 

http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/06/10591208-robert-sherman-disney-tunesmith-of-its-a-small-world-dies

 

then sing along with Julie and Dick.....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-Z0SSyUcw

 

 

if this doesn't get you pumped up for the day, nuttin' will....listen for use of the word "indubitably", Brooklyn Guy!

[Decatur Guy]

Although I knew most of the songs, I somehow never saw Mary Poppins until a few years ago. And I discovered it was one of the best movies ever made -- not just musical, but any genre.

 

So salute to the author of the song that has brought so many of us perfectly happy!

[+ deej]

A bit of trivia about "Mary Poppins":

 

Julie Andrews originated the role of Eliza Doolittle on Broadway in "My Fair Lady" (and was Tony nominated) and was in the running to play the movie role. She had a release clause in her contract with Disney. If "My Fair Lady" came through, she was out of Poppins. Producers were afraid the relatively unknown Andrews couldn't carry the movie so Eliza Doolittle went to Audrey Hepburn. Andrews won that year's Best Actress Oscar (and BAFTA, and Golden Globe) for Poppins.

 

Things worked out for her.

[jgoo]

Last night I was just watching a documentary from several years ago about Walt Disney and the Sherman Brothers were interviewed. Their song "Feed the Birds", also from Mary Poppins, was a favorite of Walt's....and mine too RIP to a very talented song writer.

[+ FreshFluff]

Interesting quote from the songwriter in Wikipedia:

 

The songwriter said that the roots of the word have been defined[3] as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty."

 

As I child, I focused on other things. I remember thinking about how unfair it was that children of that era were supposed to be "seen and not heard" and then told they're bad when they obeyed that maxim.

 

Later on, I wondered whether "I said it to me girl and now me girl's me wife" (to which she responds by hitting him on the head) meant that he had seduced her and gotten her pregnant. In 1964, that was a lot to even hint at in a Disney film!

[+ FreshFluff]

For those who are interested, the Making of Mary Poppins: