A Spoonful of Sugar
obert Sherman was desperate. He and his brother, Richard, had been hired to create the songs for Walt Disney’s a musical version of the children’s books by P. L. Travers. Disney himself wanted Julie Andrews to play the part of the magical English nanny. The actress asked to hear the movie’s songs. When the brothers played their tunes, she loved them all…except for their favorite, the one that Robert and Richard had been certain would be a hit. Walt Disney demanded a replacement for it, pronto. The brothers, however, had run out of ideas.
