Yesterday up at the Magic Castle, I saw Richard Sherman, a man who goes through life with people behind him whispering, "Do you know what he wrote?" I've gotten to know him a little and he's a wonderful source of anecdotes and stories about Working With Walt and discussions of Mary Poppins and Disneyland and all the places one can hear timeless tunes that he and his brother Robert composed. So I'm eager to see a new documentary that's out now about the two of them. It's called The Boys and I hear nothing but raves about it. (Well, actually, I hear people lament that it's not in very many theaters…)
The Sherman Brothers, of course, wrote the tunes for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang…and the title song is one of our faves here in the old Today's Video Link spot. Not long ago, Richard played a little concert for children out in Thousand Oaks and I'm a sucker for composers performing their own compositions. So here he is…