From the WDFM Archives: Conversations with Disney Legends

WD-FM: The Official Walt Disney Family Museum Podcast

First aired: February 5, 2014

In this special episode hear from three Disney Legends: Floyd Norman, Ruthie Tompson, and Richard Sherman. (03:00) Floyd Norman started his career in the mid-1950s as an inbetweener on Sleeping Beauty (1959), The Sword and the Stone (1963), and The Jungle Book (1967). (15:32) Ruthie Tompson, as a child in the 1920s she lived very close to the Disney Brothers Studio on Kingswell Avenue, which she frequently walked by. He path with the Disney brothers were cross again when she was hired by Walt to work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). She spent 40 years at The Walt Disney Studios, working on almost every animated feature up to The Rescuers (1977). (27:50) Richard Sherman and his brother Robert started their career at Disney in 1960, in just 13 years they wrote over 200 songs, many of which are still popular today. Their music in Mary Poppins (1964) garnered them an Academy Award for their song "Chim Chim Cher-ee."