Within the mid-Nineteen Seventies, I used to be, as a movie commerce paper journalist, invited to satisfy the brothers Robert and Richard Sherman. That they had supplied the rating for The Slipper and the Rose, Bryan Forbes’s Cinderella musical, then in manufacturing at Pinewood. To my shock I used to be ushered into the ballroom of a giant London resort and located them draped spherical a grand piano, extraordinarily amiable and infectiously enthusiastic.
Slightly than a standard interview, they gave me a preview of a few of their rating, which they performed and sang for this privileged viewers of 1. I want I may report that the composers of a few of musical cinema’s biggest hits had provide you with one thing, something, to rival their enduring work on the likes of Mary Poppins, The Jungle Ebook or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Sadly, for me anyway, their tunes had been, this time spherical, candy however totally unmemorable.
