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Richard M. Sherman

real name Richard Morton Sherman

New York City, United States · 1928-06-12 – 2024-05-25

Richard M. Sherman is credited on 4,775 releases across 1,200 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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4,775

Credits

1,200

Albums

8

Decades active

261

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American songwriter
Born: 12th June 1928 New York, New York, USA
Died: 25th May 2024 Los Angeles, California, USA
Since the 1950s Sherman formed a songwriting team with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Often working for the Walt Disney film studios, they composed the songs for movies like Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
During his career that spans almost 50 years, he has won multiple Academy and Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005.
The Sherman brothers are the sons of Al Sherman.

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4,775 releases · 1,200 albums · active 1951–2025

  • Performance · 6,659
  • Other credits · 1,258
  • Production · 11

Studios: Sunset Sound Recorders · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Half Note · Contemporary Records

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