Robert Sherman

One half of the “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” duo who crafted more than 150 songs for Disney movies, including “A Spoonful of Sugar,” Robert Sherman died March 5 at age 86. Along with his brother Richard, with whom he often squabbled, he won Oscars for Best Score and Best Song (“Chim Chim Cher-ee”) for Mary Poppins, composed scores for The Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and penned one of the most inescapable songs on earth for the 1964 World’s Fair, “It’s a Small World (After All).” He had a brooding nature–during World War II he was with the troops who liberated the Dachau concentration camp–but a universal one. As his brother once said of the duo, “We write for Grandpa and the 4-year-old and everyone in between.”