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Hey, everybody. As you can
see, we're here with Jimmy Mulligan the

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Great and producer Chris and I.
And this is an add on, this

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is a little a special one.
We just had some news that a mutual

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good friend of ours and yours,
Richard Sherman, has passed away. And

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well, if the name doesn't ring
a bell, the five hundred songs that

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he wrote will Mary Poppin's all Mary
Poppins songs, all the songs from Jungle

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Book, and I'm pretty sure he
had a few songs in Winnie the Pooh

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too. Yeah, I could be
wrong, but yeah, it's uh,

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you know, he's one of the
good guys, and he's he's a legend,

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a legendary man. He's I remember
meeting him for the first time saying,

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well, thank you for the soundtrack
of my life. Yeah, it

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was, Uh, it's so funny
to add on to what Jim was just

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saying. The wonderful thing about the
Sherman brothers, of course, is their

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music and the legacy that they've left
and really the ability to tell stories.

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Something Richard always said, things that
were simple, singable and sincere, and

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they certainly accomplished that, and also
anybody who ever got to know Richards as

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a person, he was, without
question, one of the kindest people I've

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ever met. I mean, I
think you would attest to that. I

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mean, this morning, the show, busy stuff aside. He was a

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star as a human being. I
mean, his very soul was pure kindness

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and pure love. And you couldn't
write those songs without having having the kind

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of soul and the kind of spirit
that he had. And the love for

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people. God, he loved.
He genuinely loved people. Yeah, really

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did. I remember I was privileged
to introduce oh, my whole family,

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Margaret and all our daughters, and
there were there at the premiere of Christopher

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Robin and he was gracious. He
was like he was meeting princesses. You

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know. He was just so kind
and so great. And then, my

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goodness, I've got so many stories. I'm overflowing with them, and I

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remember just different things. Like I
asked him when I first met him,

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I said, so, how many
how many movies did you do the soundtrack

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for the Legendary And and Dick was
walking back and forth, he goes,

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twenty five movies. We did twenty
five different movies. And if you count

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Chitty Chitty Bang bang, it's what
and his brother, you know, was

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sitting down there going no. Twenty
eight, twenty eight, and he goes,

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wait, hold on, hold on. I think I was twenty eight,

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could be twenty seven. It was
just the two of them together.

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Boys, the boys. Yeah,
and that's what we'll call them, Yeah,

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the boys. You know, Well, what's gonna happen here? And

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I heard a great story that when
Walt is it was prepping to do Mary

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Poppins, he read the book and
he gave the book to the Shimmer brothers

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and said, I'm thinking of doing
this movie and I would like to turn

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it into a musical. So could
you read this and see what you think

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it would be appropriate to put a
song here there, you know, wherever.

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And the story goes that when they
came back to him, they all

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had identical spots. Jim Jimmery was
right there. You feed the Birds was

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right there. And I think a
lot of people know that Feed the Birds

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was I get from what I hear
it was Walt's favorite song that they ever

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wrote. It was this Friday afternoon
song. He would just say play it

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and the boys would come in in
play a neat little addend of this,

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and we could go for hours,
which we won't do because we're in the

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middle of a show and right now. But when I went through the archives

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with with Greg Sherman, Richards,
Richard's son, and Tim O'Day and Howard

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Green and the whole the whole Disney
gang, we were in Walt's office and

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Becky Klein went over and she pulled
this old, uh, this old tattered

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yellow book off the shelf that was
Waltz. And when when Dave Smith had

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gone into the archives and really done
a fabulous job, the whole team of

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of making Walt's office at exactly as
it was, to the point of where

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the pencils are sort of playing in
the direction of the amount of paper clips,

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and the books were in the same
order that Walt had. So Becky

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sort of picked up this old,
you know, yellowed tome and pulled it

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down and opened it up, and
on the inside of it it said,

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uh, forgive me for quotes I
said, for mister Disney. May Mary

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Poppins b as she's so is she
so often put it a pleasure of a

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tree love pel travers and of course
you know chills. The second I saw

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that, and I'm walking through the
Walt Disney archives of Disney one hundred last

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night where they have the Pooh Bear
from the film that they used with you

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for Christopher Robbin and I turned and
I yelped to my wife and my brother

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in law. I said, oh
my god. I turned around and the

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book is there next door. And
we were talking about Richard last night before

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he we found out he had passed, and it was just like his little

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sense of humor and maybe maybe it
was Walt sort of, you know,

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guiding us through that, that that
legacy. So the end of the movie

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was Richard playing the piano like they
brought you know, he was in a

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little cute little musker hat on the
beach. Yeah, and the kind of

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had that barbershop quartet look about him. But he was only one quarter of

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it, but it was it was
really great. And I'm gonna say,

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I'm busy, busy, busy doing
nothing and nothing is good enough for me.

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That's classic Sherman Brothers. It's so
Sherman, isn't it. I mean,

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busy doing nothing and nothing's great.
You know, it's it's and you

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were you guys were out there on
the city in your chair, getting a

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sun tan, Yes, getting getting
a for tan, whatever it was.

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But yeah, great memories, great
memories for free from the Sherman brothers.

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What a precious man and the legacy
that you've shared with me. They said

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that that Richard Sherman was Tigger,
and obviously we have We've got Richard Sherman

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being. It was a Jim Cummings
being being Tigger. So it truly was.

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He was a He was a bouncy, bubbly lollipop of a man.

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Yeah, for sure, just dear, dear, So like I said that,

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the ending of of Christopher Robin,
it just gave me chills thinking about

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it, sitting there on the beach
pounding it out. It was great.

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And if you want to do yourself
a favor, look up all the songs

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that he wrote. And you're including
the Wiener Schnitzel theme. Oh the boys

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wrote back in the fifties. I
guess, oh my gosh, the Wiener

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Schnitzel theme. Yeah. Another neat
thing is that theme to Christopher Robin.

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Oh I'm whatever he played at the
end of Christopher Robb. Yeah, song

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that was used in a commercial here
in the UK, and so I was

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over a few years ago. I
was in the UK, and I forget

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what brand it was, but they
used that song in the UK from Christopher

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Robin and it was this really well
known commercial here so sorry advert yeah,

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so yeah. So if you think
you don't know them, you were wrong,

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because you do. And I have
to tell you that really briefly.

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Uh, I don't. I don't
remember what we were recording, but I

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went in and like a goose,
I said, oh, by the way,

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I found the cure for It's a
Small World. And and I know

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you never saw, you know,
Bob throw his head back and labbing.

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Tell him again, he found the
cure for it's a small worm. I

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said, well, everyone wants a
cure for that, for that song.

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That yeah, that earworm. You
know, you get it in your head

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and you're done. And I'll okay, it's okay, I'll give you a

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cure in a second. And I
said it's the Beatles. The Beatles are

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the cure. And I said,
well, no, I mean, but

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one song in particular, because it's
a lilting melody, the Long and Winding

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Road he goes, and that's the
cure. Yeah, And he just thought

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it took the Beetles to find the
cure for the Sherman brothers. That's not

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bad, that's sing and it's just
crack. I'll never forget it. Well

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it, but it would it would
have to be the Beatles that would that

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would defroll that song. Out of
Earth, Yeah, out of your earth.

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He said, either either wanted to
kiss him or kick him. He

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preferred kisses, but he got it, you know, Yes, I got

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stuck at Christmas time with them when
it's a small world. One time we

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were together in the boat riding it
broke. Well, it was only about

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five minutes. Oh yeah it was
that was were ready to confess the crimes

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you did even commit. Absolutely so, God, he's so missed it,

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going for hours, but you missed. Yes, yes, we could probably

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do this all day, but we
also probably shouldn't before I'll end up being

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modlin' you know. So, uh
my goodness, I think it would be

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wonderful to have maybe maybe Pooh,
give a little thank you to to Richard

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Sherman for for everything that Richard and
Bob Sherman for the what they've contributed.

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So take it away, pooh bear, don't dum do do do do.

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Thank you very much for putting words
and music in my mouth and uh do

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wonderful thing about tigers. To Sherman
brothers, thanks guys, very sweet of

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you, Jimbo. Good night,
folks. Mm hmm