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National Lampoon cartoonist Ed Subitzky talks to Mark Newgarden and Owen Kline about his new book, his career, and time with David Letterman.

Narrated mostly in Ms. Warwick's own velvet-toned voice, Don't Make Me Over blends archival footage with personal photographs and newsreels, telling the story...

♪ i did a demonstration record of a song called "make it easy on yourself." and it was agreed between david baccarat, david and myself that that would be my very first record. >> calvin carter was a&r at dj records. he called and he said to me, you know that song "make it easy on yourself," want to do it with jerry butler. basically, run the date, book the musicians. that was a big opportunity for me. >> well, i was on my way from hartford down to new york to do a session for them. and out of the radio came jerry butler singing "make it easy on yourself." ♪ make it easy on yourself ♪ â...

Documentary. >> so let's go back all the way back, 60 years to 1962 you're in college. you go to new york to audition to be a backup singer for the legendary composer burt and here is a clip from the documentary. >> okay. >> these four ladies came in. they were pretty awesome. i mean, the way they sounded you don't tell who was the best singer. dionne stood out, she looked like she could be a star. >> burt approached me and asked if i would be interested in doing my demonstration record, a song he'd be writing with hal david a new song writing partner. i said yeah, i guess if it doesn't interf...

He said, you never wrote me that song. i came back to new york, sitting up in my apartment 1:00 in the morning and i still cannot get my arms around the fact that sinatra is leaving. i started typing. i was a journalist back in canada, a cub reporter, and i said, what would frank do with this if he were writing it. met forricly, i started creating this song as if frank were writing it, and now the end is near, the final curtain, wrote it until 5:00 in the morning. and at the end of it i knew i had something that i wouldn't be afraid to give him. i did a demonstration record, flew out to vegas ...