A Spoonful of Sugar: Robert Sherman, 1925-2012 | Film reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk

A Spoonful of Sugar: Robert Sherman, 1925-2012 | Film reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk:

'via Blog this'As for perhaps their most famous song, Bob Sherman recalled how 40 years earlier they were asked to replace a ballad which Julie Andrews had rejected. After two weeks they were still looking when his eight-year-old son came home from school. “I said, ‘How was school?’ He said, ‘Fine. We had our vaccine today.’ I said, ‘Oh, did it hurt?’ ‘Oh no, they just put a drop of medicine on a lump of sugar.’ The next day I said, ‘Dick, what do you think about a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down?’” The next day they sang it to Walt Disney who was just down the hall in the animation building. He said, “Yeah, that’ll work, finish it up.”