Let's Put It Over With Grover
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"Let's Put It Over With Grover" is a song written by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman, also known as the "Sherman Brothers". The song is from the Walt Disney musical film: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band which premiered in 1968.
[edit] Story placement
The film's plotline centers around the United States presidential election of 1888 which was between candidates Stephen Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison. This song is meant to be a campaign song for Cleveland, of course, in reality it was written nearly eighty years after that election took place. The other campaign song from the film is entitled, "Oh, Benjamin Harrison".
[edit] Trivia
The songwriters' father, Al Sherman (who was also a songwriter) wrote two songs which were used as campaign songs for two different Presidential candidates in the mid twentieth century. In the 1948 election, Republican candidate, Thomas Dewey usurped the Al Sherman/Charles Tobias/Howard Johnson collaborative song, "(What Do We Do On A) Dew-Dew-Dewey Day" for his campaign. Four years later Sherman wrote a song specifically for Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign called, "I Like Ike".
[edit] Literary sources
- Sherman, Robert B. Walt's Time: from before to beyond. Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998, pgs. 95, 148-149.
