A Spoonful of Hope

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Nearly 60 years ago, Americans witnessed the roll out of a polio vaccine that would change lives and the way we fight disease. Writer and producer Jeffrey Sherman was a child when he took the vaccine, at the time delivered by sugar cube. It turns out that small act inspired an American classic. He talks to CNN writer Tom Lake about the experience and why it’s so relevant today. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The song in itself is really about, on one level, it's tangentially about the Sabin
0:08.9	vaccine, but it's also really about enjoying the fun part of anything you do.
0:16.0	So I find myself singing it once in a while.
0:19.2	It's something that sort of lifts people up.
0:23.7	That's Jeffrey Sherman.
0:25.3	He's a writer, producer and director of TV and film.
0:29.2	He also comes from entertainment royalty.
0:32.1	His father and uncle were Robert and Richard Sherman, best known as the legendary Disney
0:37.2	songwriting duo, The Sherman Brothers.
0:40.0	They wrote many of the songs we've come to know and love, for films like Winnie the Pooh.
0:44.8	Winnie the Pooh.
0:46.8	Winnie the Pooh.
0:48.8	Covey, little, covey, all scuffed with love.
0:52.0	The parent trap.
0:54.0	Let's get together, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, why did you and I come by?
0:59.9	And Mary Poppins.
1:01.6	Now as it turns out, Jeffrey played a small role in one of those classics as well.
1:07.5	He was the inspiration behind one of Mary Poppins' most memorable songs, A Spoonful of Sugar.
1:15.2	For a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
1:20.0	The medicine go down.
1:22.4	Those lyrics may have been written nearly 60 years ago, but the words, A Spoonful of Sugar
1:29.9	helps the medicine go down.
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