when you work with john williams and dave grissom and johnny mandel, hank mancini. how we feel about it, when the melody is there, it is wonderful that there are words on the tips of those notes had we have to find them. that is our exploration and discovery. tavis: henry mancini became hank mancini. one of the best. >> terrific. tavis: how did -- i of the story, but for those who don't, how did the two of the meet after being born in the hospital four years apart? >> we were riding with the same composer. i was writing in the morning and in the afternoon. they decided to introduce the lyric and we wrote a song that day. a terrible song. but we enjoy the process. it was 1956 and we have been writing together ever since. tavis: hughes said that you suffered a severe injury. >> i was living in a fifth for building in new york. headstones that were worn from years of traffic. it had been raining that they have the staff -- high took a header down the steps and then broke both my shoulders. house going to college in new york at the time, and my parents -- it was new yor