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Finally tonight here, conjunction junction, whats your function? ♪ three six nine >> he turned multiplication into music for "school house rock." ♪ 21, 24, 27, 30 >> bob doroughs legacy, those catchy lyrics we all know. ♪ congress junction junction ♪ whats your function >> teaching generations of kids -- and adults, too -- math, history, and tricky grammar rules. as he tells it, it started with a magic number -- three.

>> lets pick a number. three. thats a good number. >> it turns out that his boss was upset his sons could remember the words to jimi hendrix, but not their math. he asked him to write some songs. >> i sat down at the piano and i started fooling around. ♪ ♪ three is a magic number >> the song leading to a grammy-nominated album. ♪ knowledge is power >> and of course, "schoolhouse rock." for dorough, a song he wrote about a lucky rabbit and the number seven says it all. >> of all the songs i...

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>> it was all over the floor, scattered. >> reporter: you thought you are looking at trash? t we didnt know what we were looking at until i reached down and said, "wait a minute. this says 1941." we knew then we had found something. we struck gold. > reporter: like this ledger signed by legends who flocked to oreme to perform in the 1940s. >> heres one. thats ella, dizzy, ella fitzgerald. and lionel hampton right here nnderneath. >> reporter: but theres one name most connected with treme: >> lou...

More-- ♪ you play the cheatin game >> reporter: --a performance iontract for ray charles before he made it big. >> ray charles on that gig earned $50 a night. >> reporter: $50 a night. >> a night. >> reporter: ray charles was playing for $50 a night. >> its on the contract. >> reporter: jackson opened the treme petit jazz museum last summer to display all these hidden treasures in this ntntrifying neighborhood. is it your hope that all this history will also save tremes future? >> we are hopin...

>> is aaron king. im a conductor and composer for the rainbow chamber singers. >> the choir became famous for its original co naal compositio. one of their biggest hits highlights the parental pressure young people face when it comes to their love lives. ♪

♪ happy birthday, your majesty ♪ the scene in londons royal albert hall this evening at a star-studded birthday party for queen elizabeth. she turned 92 today and took the stage with her son and heir, prince charles. among those attending, prince harry and meghan markle, whose wedding at windsor castle is less than a month from now. its become a kind of unofficial wonder of the world, and other worlds. were talking about the hubble space telescope, which is about to mark 28 years explori...

>> i started playing violin in the orchestra, fifth grade strings. >> reporter: valerie started the group. >> the idea of having my own female group was something was interested in. >> reporter: texas is leading the way with more and more women playing mariachi. >> it was usually always men. i dont remember seeing female mariachis when i was younger. >> reporter: but that is changing. at bracken ridge high school more than half of johns mariachi students are girls. >> the male only adds so much....

Anything to do with the mueller investigation or president trump and to mr. avantes comments that this is what the american people are interested in, focused in, i dont know i -- run across too many people that the fate of the democracy turns on the stormy daniels case. >> dershowitz had this to say on "fox & friends". >> new york, cohen, whether he flips, sings, whether he composes, thats the fear. if youre innocent, you dont worry about a singer but you have to worry about a composer, elaborat...

But even if you are innocent you have to worry about a composer. someone who creatively collaborates on a story. ed: what about rudy giuliani. >> thats a great idea. rude and i have fought each other for years. he was always a prosecutor i was a defense. he is a yankee and im a red sox fan. todd: thats just mean to ed and i. >> i always wear this tie. i wore it today to remind rude that we stilruderudy that e differences between us. abby: new to give him your own thoughts, you say sit back, let ...