tavis: i know the cole porter story.ckson, of course. >> indiana got some good something out there. tavis: good water. great artists who perform this stuff but don't necessarily write it emma since you mention sinatra, con -- necessarily write it, since you was hisd sinatra, khon muse. he sang 87 songs from the same guy. >> one thing i can say about frank sinatra which white -- which i will say in my show is that he always acknowledged to the writers. if you ever notice in his live performances are you see -- or you hear a live album, he always gave them credit. tavis: and you do the same thing. i have seen you everywhere but the carlyle. this season, hope to get there and see you. i saw bobby short there when he was holding court for 30 some years. years and iere 36 have been there nine. i have been there every year since he passed away. by the time i catch him come i will be am a 60. [laughter] , i haveelieve that [indiscernible] mike is on the way over to brooklyn. tavis: you love that room. >> i was honored to be ask

tavis: i know the cole porter story. michael jackson, of course

tavis: i know the cole porter story. michael jackson, of course.

probably, if cole porter had to sing his own songs, maybe he wouldn't have had some a great songs. it is two different talents. a used to be more separate back in those days. and the songwriters would get in there and write songs and that was their craft and the singers would just knock them out. billie holiday didn't do too bad either. all these people, there were two different things. they didn't write those songs. she did write a couple very tavis: i find myself always -- she did write a couple. tavis: i find myself always coming back to this. what do you think about the invisibility or the absence of melody these days? >> it's a shame. i think the technology in the technical world that we live in has contributed to that. because you couldn't go to a piano back in the day and just tell it to play two cords over and over again like you can ande we started sampling putting in a computer. i think it is great and a lot of created -- it is also ike that is our version of jazz or something. but the actual learning of how to be a musician is kind of a lost art. people, they were like t

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