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personalties. >> larry: i've enjoyed every minute of it. >> really? >> larry: yeah, 50 years went by like yesterday. i remember the first day i started. but this is about you. so artie shore, he stopped playing at age 53, and i asked him why and he said, he had nothing more to say. do you ever feel that way? >> for as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it out, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime and destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, i will always have something to say. >> do you ever sing what ray charles used to sing? do you ever sing "america"? >> i haven't sang the song. i like the song. >> larry: you ought to sing
he said no, no, no, this is a song -- i said i'm telling you, this is a good way to do it. he said okay, if i'm wrong, you know, i'll buy you dinner. if i'm right, you buy me a car. no. but anyway, i said, i'm telling you, i feel it. >> larry: well, you put your own stamp on it, though. >> yeah, i just felt that that was the way to do it. it was a song that was really -- i mean, in both ways, obviously. it's a great song. i think part of a great song is that you're able to do various interpretations of that song. >> larry: yeah. >> and so that song done like that, to me it felt like what i could relate to at 17, 18 years old. >> larry: play us to the break. we've got to go to break here. be my tunesmith. >> you'll sing with me? come on, let's go. ♪ for once in my life ♪ i have someone who needs me ♪ someone i've needed so long
wonder. what a career. you toured with the rolling stones back in 1972. i was going to ask, what was that like backstage? what was that like? >> it was interesting. we had a lot of fun. a lot of what i wrote for "talking book," the album that was very successful -- ♪ problem around that time i wrote on that tour. "superstition" i wrote on a day off while on the tour with the stones. i mean, we had a good time. we really did. >> larry: did you like their music? >> i think we went to the playboy -- was it the -- >> larry: playboy probably. >> playboy mansion. we went to the playboy mansion in chicago. and at that time, stupid me, i
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play. the amount of beats. the bars that you play. the song ends. so that's how it happens today. now -- >> larry: the machine can write the note? >> yeah, there's a machine that can write. through the computer and software it can be written out. >> larry: are you always thinking of music? are you always sort of writing in your head? >> i can't say that i'm always writing in my head, but i do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. and what i do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. but when i feel that i don't have a song i just say, "god, please give me another song." and i just am quiet and it happens. it's just amazing. >> larry: like? >> like -- >> larry: play something. ♪
i think it would get down to the chemistry. and if the chemistry was right and if we had both the same feeling about working together and if they could sing or play and they didn't mind being challenged, i'm good. >> larry: will you play "sir duke" to break? >> i need some tea. hold on. how can we do this? mm. ♪ >> larry: one-handed here. ♪ music is a world within itself ♪ ♪ with a language we all understand ♪ ♪ with an equal opportunity ♪ for all to sing, dance, and clap their hands ♪ ♪ well, just because a record has a groove ♪ ♪ don't make it in the groove ♪ you can tell by the way it let's the a when the b boys
kept it with integrity was great. >> larry: tell me about "for once in my life." where did that come from? ♪ for once i can say this is mine, you can't take it ♪ >> the way that went was, i was in motown in detroit. and i was with my producer, hank cosby at the time, who -- i said, i've got this great idea. because i mean, obviously i heard tony bennett do the song when i was like maybe 12 years old, 13, or whatever it was. 14. and i loved it. what he did with the song. but by about 17, 18, i said, wow, that's such a great song. let me try to do it a different way. i said hank, i've got a great idea to do this song. he said what song? i said, "for once in my life." so i went to the studio and started going like -- ♪ he said what are you doing, man? what's up? i said listen, just listen. ♪
♪ come on, let's fall in love >> larry: we're back with stevie wonder. what a career. you toured with the rolling stones back in 1972. i was going to ask, what was that like backstage? what was that like? >> it was interesting. we had a lot of fun. a lot of what i wrote for "talking book," the album that was very successful -- ♪ problem around that time i wrote on that tour. "superstition" i wrote on a day off while on the tour with the stones. i mean, we had a good time. we really did. >> larry: did you like their music? >> i think we went to the
and my mother worked at a fish company working with i guess the -- for a while -- and then fortunately, we were blessed with me being discovered at the age of 9. then signing to motown by the age of 10, and then at 11 having the first record out. >> larry: and that helped the whole family? >> we did make some money. >> larry: you were a prodigy. when did you -- what was -- did you play piano like when you were 5? >> yeah. i played piano. i mean, you know, obviously, sound was very important to me. so when i was able to -- you know, to touch that thing that's called a piano, you know, i was curious about it, and i think the first -- ♪ that's probably the first thing i played. >> larry: "three blind mice." >> exactly.
♪ ♪ how i wish that you were mine ♪ >> larry: so why did you change it? >> marsha and i broke up. and so the lyricist -- the lyricist sylvia moore wrote "my cherie amour." sorry, marsha. >> larry: oh, marsha, you're sorry today, aren't you? when you think -- >> she's probably saying, well, it was about me originally any way, so whatever. >> larry: when you think the song out, someone has to write down all the notes, right? >> well, you know, in today's technology you can play on a keyboard like this or any of the other keyboards or piano and through midi, which is the technology that takes, based on numbers, digital, information and take that information and convert that into the -- the writing of each note that you