Songs that carry the story
Richard and Robert Sherman wrote the songs for Mary Poppins, including Feed the Birds. The music advances the family’s story as well as supplying memorable melodies.
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The Sherman Brothers
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The songwriting partnership behind “Feed the Birds” and the songs of Mary Poppins.
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The songwriting partnership behind “Feed the Birds” and the songs of Mary Poppins.
A quiet song among spectacles
Feed the Birds stands apart from the film’s exuberant numbers through its slower pace and intimate setting. That contrast gives it a particular place in the score.
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Song
Feed the Birds
Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman · Mary Poppins, 1964
A quiet song about noticing a small need, sung by Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins.
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Film
Mary Poppins
Walt Disney Productions · directed by Robert Stevenson · 1964
A musical film in which a remarkable nanny unsettles and reconnects a London family.
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