waited for the singer-songwriter cat stevens, joni mitchell, early 0e's, gordon lightfoot, and carol king who i dated for two minutes. and tavis: lucky you. >> i brought her up to the brill building. >> lucky her. >> greenfield and i were the first writers to go to the building, i brought carol king and her -- all of the people in this were neil diamond, stole has. it was a great -- it was a great bunch of writers and we were teenage new yorkers writing for the teenagers. so, i was lucky between 1958 and 1963, i sold about 0 million records to the shock of my mother and father because i was always playing beethoven. i bought my mother a mink stole and she said, i think this is better than bait toven. they just signed elvis presley and it was a new teen age market, and our -- r.c.a. was distributed all over the world, so i got to -- to be heard and -- in every country in the world and i didn't want to be a rock and roller. i wanted to be a bobby daryn because he was the -- the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated, so i played the copa and i played all of these adult places. and i go