Michael Barbella, Managing Editor03.24.22
A prayer for peace.
That was the intention of the Sherman Brothers’ most renowned song six decades ago as the world weathered a 35-day standoff between the Soviet Union and United States. Working under strict parameters from iconic animator/entrepreneur Walt Disney, the pair was tasked with penning a simple paean to global unity.
“He said, ‘I want it to be a simple song that is a salute to the children of the world because they are the hope of the future. They have to learn as youngsters how to live together and share the world because that’s all we’ve got,’” Richard M. Sherman told the non-profit music rights group BMI in a May 2014 interview. “As we worked back in our office...we said, ‘Well, Walt said the small children of the world are the hope of the future. What’s key to that? Let’s learn to live together, not kill each other, after all we live in a small world, that’s where we live after all, small, all, ooh! That rhymes.’ Then we said, ‘It’s a small world after all, let’s not kill each other! No, we don’t have to say that, it’s a small wo
That was the intention of the Sherman Brothers’ most renowned song six decades ago as the world weathered a 35-day standoff between the Soviet Union and United States. Working under strict parameters from iconic animator/entrepreneur Walt Disney, the pair was tasked with penning a simple paean to global unity.
“He said, ‘I want it to be a simple song that is a salute to the children of the world because they are the hope of the future. They have to learn as youngsters how to live together and share the world because that’s all we’ve got,’” Richard M. Sherman told the non-profit music rights group BMI in a May 2014 interview. “As we worked back in our office...we said, ‘Well, Walt said the small children of the world are the hope of the future. What’s key to that? Let’s learn to live together, not kill each other, after all we live in a small world, that’s where we live after all, small, all, ooh! That rhymes.’ Then we said, ‘It’s a small world after all, let’s not kill each other! No, we don’t have to say that, it’s a small wo
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