more from aretha franklin and little richard. ryan sechrest who's lucky enough to work alongside him. ryan seacrest said it was a joy to work for him every new year's eve. we will all miss him. president obama also paying tribute tonight. he reshaped the television landscape as a creative and innovative producer and we welcomed him into our homes to ring in the new year. but more important than the ground breaking achievements was the way he made us feel. we'll continue after a short break. ? i don't want you going out on those yet. mmm-hmm. and just leave your phone in your purse. i don't want you texting, all right? daddy...ok! ok, here you go. be careful. thanks dad. call me -- but not while you're driving. ♪ [ dad ] we knew this day was coming. that's why we bought a subaru. ♪ [♪...] >> announcer: with nothing but his computer, an identity thief is able to use your information to open a bank account in order to make your money his money. [whoosh, clang] you need lifelock, the only identity theft protection company that

our next guest needs no introduction, royalty rarely does, arrest aretha franklin. you were a part of "american bandstand" what did he mean to you personally? >> he was such a nice man. good evening, everyone, i'm sorry. such a nice and very easy man to work with, a very warm and classy and just an ageless person. and if you didn't go on "american bandstand" you just hadn't made it yet. you had to go on the bandstand. >> he was that important in american music? >> absolutely, if you didn't go on there, you hadn't made it. >> the fact that his appeal spanned generations from game shows and music shows, new year's eve, and so much more. it's a tough business, what made him such a success? >> i think that she was just so industry savvy and he was such a warm and personable kind of person. very, very well liked by everyone, the artists, industry people, everyone, even the parents loved watching the bandstand. as a teenager i loved it. i started with him when the band stand was in philadelphia and that was long before he moved out to los angeles. but i started with him t

more from aretha franklin and little richard. ryan sechrest who's lucky enough to work alongside him. ryan seacrest said it was a joy to work for him every new year's eve. we will all miss him. he left a rich legacy. president obama also paying tribute tonight. he reshaped the television landscape forever as a producer and for 40 years we welcomed him into our homes to ring in the new year. more important was the way he made us feel, as young and vibrant and as optimistic as he was. our own tribute continues after a short break. rhythmically ] ♪ bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum ♪ ♪ [ imitates guitar noise ] ♪ [ vocalizing up-tempo heavy metal song ] ♪ [ vocalizing continues ] ♪ [ all singing ] the redesigned, 8-passenger pilot. smarter thinking. from honda. i'm a wife, i'm a mom... and chantix worked for me. it's a medication i could take and still smoke, while it built up in my system. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. some people had changes

the legendary aretha franklin will join us in a few minutes. but here a look back at his career by koreen wynter. >> reporter: he was known as the world's oldest teenager. dick clark began his career on the weekly dance party that would later be known as "american bandstand" in philadelphia in 1956. the show became a national and later an international sensation, after it was picked up by abc one year later. ♪ do the twist >> reporter: in spite of racial altitudes at the time, clark was a pioneer in promoting african-american artists, including percy sledge, the silhouettes, the supremes and gladys night and the pips. an appearance on "american bandstand" could launch their career. >> if you look at the history of dance, from the popular music to the -- through the rock 'n roll period, country music, rhythm and blues, rap music, it is everything. >> reporter: but music wasn't his only beat, clark proved a prolific businessman, hosting the game show, the 25,000 pyramid. tv's bloopers and practical skroeks and of course the annual new year's ro

more from aretha franklin and little richard. ryan sechrest who's lucky enough to work alongside him. ryan seacrest said it was a joy to work for him every new year's eve. we will all miss him. he left a rich legacy. president obama also paying tribute tonight. he reshaped the television landscape forever as a producer and for 40 years we welcomed him into our homes to ring in the new year. more important was the way he made us feel, as young and vibrant and as optimistic as he was. our own tribute continues after a short break. rhythmically ] ♪ bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum ♪ ♪ [ vocalizing ♪ continues ] ♪ [ all singing ] the redesigned, 8-passenger pilot. smarter thinking. from honda. i'm a wife, i'm a mom... and chantix worked for me. it's a medication i could take and still smoke, while it built up in my system. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and

celebrities expected to be on hand include bill cosby, aretha franklin and wanda sykes also the evening's emcee. >>> after the break, deep discounts on getting your home cleaned as well as a great bite the eat. details in this afternoon's daily deal segment. howard? >> andrea, watering the plants out here, we've been kind of dry some areas seeing expanding drought conditions and we'll talk about that and of course the seven day forecast. we go to break though with a look at the allergy update and you see the tree pollen once again is in the high category. everything else is low. we'll be inside that and pet line 9 coming up when 9news now at noon returns. >>> we have breaking news right now out of new york city where people are being evacuated from two world financial center. that's in lower manhattan near the world trade center memorial site. police are investigating a suspicious package that was spotted during a routine screening. we'll bring you more information on this as it comes into the newsroom. >>> we've been combing through the day's daily deals emails and retailer websites to f

franklin. one of the owners expects a lin around the block. >> why is vinyl so good? >> the sound of it, the feel, the artwork. inserts that come inside, posters, special things. a lot of times it will come with the mp3 down load so you can have the cd, it's convenient, but you have the vinyl at home when you are trying to chill. you can't down load vinyl. >> you can't download vinyl. give independent music retailers a chance with come competing with the online record sales. personally, i love my vinyl. anita. >> earth day is this sunday, derek, and today preschool students at chesterbrook academy released thousands of lady bugs into the air. they are dressed like them, too. they set them free in nine locations to improve the health of local plant life. >>> a police officer in ohio stopped traffic to help a family of ducks cross a busy road. you can see, it was a little blurry. the officer's dash board camera caught the entire scene. the mother duck took coaxing, but the family made it safely a

aretha franklin drew a lot of attention in president obama's inauguration with odd choice of head wear. what song did she sing that day? >> bill: the answer is roll the tape again. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bill: the head wear is distracting. >> she is fabulous. she is tour. i was down in durham and she wasn't coming to town until i left. >> she didn't give you any respect. >> you were the warmup. >> bill: so you both got it wrong. so now it's still a tie with one to go. i have the tie-breaker. >> oh, good. >> judy garland starred in wizard of oz. ♪ ♪ >> bill: whatable treasury was originally offered that role but couldn't get out of her contract to play it? >> bill: the answer is, that is correct, shirley temple. >> she would do good in that role. >> coming up the great american news quiz. >> he's a traitor, don't forget that. >> bill: the gangster edition. moments away. we hav 5-hour energy? when i'm on overtime. when i'm in over my head. when i have to be sharp... no matter how many time zones i've crossed. when i'm on my feet for hours. when it's game time. when the day's only half over b

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aretha franklin drew a lot of attention in president obama's inauguration with odd choice of head wear. what song did she sing that day? >> bill: the answer is roll the tape again. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bill: the head wear is distracting. >> she is fabulous. she is tour. i was down in durham and she wasn't coming to town until i left. >> she didn't give you any respect. >> you were the warmup. >> bill: so you both got it wrong. so now it's still a tie with one to go. i have the tie-breaker. >> oh, good. >> judy garland starred in wizard of oz. ♪ ♪ >> bill: whatable treasury was originally offered that role but couldn't get out of her contract to play it? >> bill: the answer is, that is correct, shirley temple. >> she would do good in that role. >> coming up the great american news quiz. >> he's a traitor, don't forget that. >> bill: the gangster edition. moments away. we hav >> bill: back with the american news quiz. the gangster edition. i picked it for mccallum. it's not gangsta. no real gangsters. >> here we go. question number one. one of the most famous movie gangsters was portrayed

aretha franklin drew a lot of attention in president obama's inauguration with odd choice of head wear. what song did she sing that day? >> bill: the answer is roll the tape again. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bill: the head wear is distracting. >> she is fabulous. she is tour. i was down in durham and she wasn't coming to town until i left. >> she didn't give you any respect. >> you were the warmup. >> bill: so you both got it wrong. so now it's still a tie with one to go. i have the tie-breaker. >> oh, good. >> judy garland starred in wizard of oz. ♪ ♪ >> bill: whatable treasury was originally offered that role but couldn't get out of her contract to play it? >> bill: the answer is, that is correct, shirley temple. >> she would do good in that role. >> coming up the great american news quiz. >> he's a traitor, don't forget that. >> bill: the gangster edition. moments away. we hav ♪ ♪ i can do anything ♪ i can do anything today ♪ i cano anywhere ♪ i can go anywhere today ♪ la la lla la la la [ male announcer ] dow solutions help millions of people by helping to make gluten free brea

aretha franklin drew a lot of attention in president obama's inauguration with odd choice of head wear. what song did she sing that day? >> bill: the answer is roll the tape again. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bill: the head wear is distracting. >> she is fabulous. she is tour. i was down in durham and she wasn't coming to town until i left. >> she didn't give you any respect. >> you were the warmup. >> bill: so you both got it wrong. so now it's still a tie with one to go. i have the tie-breaker. >> oh, good. >> judy garland starred in wizard of oz. ♪ ♪ >> bill: whatable treasury was originally offered that role but couldn't get out of her contract to play it? >> bill: the answer is, that is correct, shirley temple. >> she would do good in that role. >> coming up the great american news quiz. >> he's a traitor, don't forget that. >> bill: the gangster edition. moments away. we have great clips to show you. ♪ ♪ i can do anything ♪ i can do anything today ♪ i cano anywhere ♪ i can go anywhere today ♪ la la lla la la la [ male announcer ] dow solutions help millions of people by helpin

franklin. so many people had that sort of grounding. was that your original sort of music influence and how things started for you in terms of singing and song writing? >> well, my mother and all my femur, all the smokey mountain music, they were either singing the songs from church or they were singing those old mountain songs that came from the old world. england ireland scotland. all the great old songs but it was still kind of all routed in through the church and i think that's where people like me i'm an emotional singer. i feel in everything to my core. i remember mom used to sing real sad song just break your heart. if you were really in there and i think you get imbedded in the smokey mountain dna i call it. the church that's where you have to have the hope. the goods pel song you are a musician. you have a singer. you sing a sacred song or gospel song or christian song it's a different feeling. it's like emotional. emotional attachment. so i really think that that mountain music, sit a

he was traveling and performing alongside aretha franklin. >> i remember her and i saw the first "17" magazine and i said, looky here. oh, my god, look here. >> reporter: whitney came to call him uncle sam. as quickly as he watched her rise, he watched her fall. it was the early '90s. >> when i first realized she was using, i saw her on tv. she was always perspiring, doing this to her face. >> reporter: at that moment, he knew she was an addict. he knew because sam moore was an addict himself. on the streets of harlem in the 1960s, sam moore's nearly deadly descent into drugs began. >> we were sitting in there and he took me by the arm. went to one of the stalls in the bathroom and he had this little package, white powder. >> reporter: the white powder was heroin. and it didn't take long for sam to get hooked. his habit soon cost him $600 a day. while he was still able to perform, the money soon ran out. he came desperate. it got so bad you would send your girlfriend out. >> uh-huh, prostitution. you use everybody. you tell lies to everybody. you use everybody. >> reporter: since sam

." ♪ i'm a soul man >> reporter: he was traveling and performing alongside gospel greats aretha franklin and houston's mother, cissy. >> i remember her. and i even saw the first "seventeen" magazine. i said, look at here! oh, my god, look at here. >> reporter: whitney came to call him uncle sam. and as quickly as moore watched the girl he called nippy rise, he watched her fall. it was the early '90s. >> when i first realized that she was using, i saw her on tv. she always was perspiring. she was doing this to her face. wiping the sweat. >> reporter: at that moment he knew she was an addict. he knew because sam moore was an addict himself. on the streets of harlem in the 1960s sam moore's nearly deadly descent into drugs began. >> we were sitting in there. and he said, come with me. took me right down. went to one of the stalls in the bathroom and he had this little package. white powder. >> reporter: the white powder was heroin. and it didn't take long for sam to get hooked. his habit soon cost him $600 a day. and while he still was able to perform, the money soon ran out. he became desp

franklin and so many people had that sort of grounding. was that your original sort of music influence and how things started for you, in terms of singing and song writing? >> well, my mother and all of my people, all the smoky mountain music, they were either singing the songs from church or they were singing those old mountain songs that came from the old world, you know, england, ireland, scotland, and all of those songs and it was still all rooted in the church and i think that's where people, certainly like me, i'm an emotion until singer and i feel everything in my core and when mama used to sing the sad songs and break your heart if you were really in there and i think that that kind of gets embedded in that smoky mountain dna, i call it, and the church stuff where you've got to have that hope, you know how it is when you sing a gospel song, you're a musician, a singer, and when you sing a sacred song, gospel song or a christmas song it's a different feeling, it's an emotional attachment. so, i really think that, you know, that moun

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so, what was your reaction when you first heard aretha franklin singing "natural woman"? >> in three words? oh, my god. and that's exactly how i wrote it. it was just an amazing thing. and as a songwriter, that's what gives me the greatest joy is to hear artists take it to the next level, the level i can't. i can't sing like that. i can suggest how to sing like that. which i did in a demo. i made a demo for her with jerry and you can kind of hear the elements in the demo. there's an album coming out in a couple ways, april 24th, called the legendary des. they did a lot of the demos capturing this time. >> right. which is a good map to how the songs emerged eventually. and you know, over this book, we hear about your loves, your losses, you married twice, you had four kids. >> i actually married four times. >> four times, okay? >> yes. hope springs eternal. >> and you had four kids. i got that right. and it was the relationship you write about that had to be painful to write about you say without warning he struck with his right fist, he hit me hard, as if we were in a box

and one that was especially special to you, "natural woman" and aretha franklin. is that one a cover of one of your favorite songs? >> it's hard to have a favorite cover, but i have to say, that was probably the ultimate, oh, my, god moment when i first heard her recording of that. because prior to that, i had made my demo, which is on that legendary demos album. and that was the last i heard about it. it was like we were in limbo, is she going to do it, is she going to like it. we didn't find out until the day jerry wexler called us and said, and -- and by the way, it was his title. it was jerry wexler's title, i'm looking for a hit for aretha, i've got a great title for you, "natural woman" you'll see him as a third writer on the song for the very well-deserved reason. and jerry calls us and says come on in and hear this. and what else do you say when you hear that for the first time? and you're the song writer. >> wow. >> bob dylan said the first time he heard jimi hendrix do "all along the watch tower," he said, not my song anymore. it's his. i mean, somebody

so, what was your reaction when you first heard aretha franklin singing "natural woman"? >> in three words? oh, my god. and that's exactly how i wrote it. it was just an amazing thing. and as a songwriter, that's what gives me the greatest joy is to hear artists take it to the next level, the level i can't. i can't sing like that. i can suggest how to sing like that. which i did in a demo. i made a demo for her with jerry and you can kind of hear the elements in the demo. there's an album coming out in a couple ways, april 24th, called the legendary demos. they did a lot of the demos capturing this time. >> right. which is a good map to how the songs emerged eventually. and you know, over this book, we hear about your loves, your losses, you married twice, you had four kids. >> i actually married four times. >> four times, okay? >> yes. hope springs eternal. >> and you had four kids. i got that right. and it was the relationship you write about that had to be painful to write about you say without warning he struck with his right fist, he hit me hard, as if we were in a b