tavis: before i get a phone call, i should say david porter is more than isaac hayes. d dave. , david everybody stax porter had a hand in it. how did you process at that time motown? stax versus for folks who remember the era, motown had its brand and were out the gate first. when stax showed up it was a different day. >> we listened to motown. we did not compare. we tried to emulate songs. at the same time we wanted to keep your individuality. we thought of ourselves as being these simple, funky musicians and them being the more sophisticated people is the way we thought of it. tavis: tommy about the booker t and the mg days. >> the days of the hammond organ and trying to emulate the organ charles or jimmy smith. those were my mentors, my inspirations. exciting times. tavis: i always believed jimmy smith is one of the best to ever touch the instrument. tell me more about his gift. >> the amazing thing about jimmy is he got better as he lived. he was amazing when he started, -- the older jimmy smith just unbelievable. tavis: i mentioned earlier you were a child prodigy

at night in april of 1863 there are casualties and the guns take a toll little bit, admiral david dixon porter, marvelous character and superior naval man pulls it off, gets a lot of his gun boats and a bunch of supply barges and they run it in the middle of the night and get past the guns enabling grant to come across the river and make it across the mississippi, no one in vicksburg expects that and the townspeople aren't even really aware of it because the rumors that are flying through the confederate army that grand is leaving, they are retreating, union controls waters, so the word flyers that the recent you see across the river, the louisiana side, you see all these union troops marching south, the reason you see that, they are leaving, they're running away. the people want to believe that, they convince themselves of that. they have no reason to leave vicksburg. after the battle of the big black river when the union gunboats begin to shell the town of vicksburg all-day and all-night, all that wonderful confederate army goes out to meet ulysses grant and they're going to shove grant out

admiral david dixon porter, marvelous character, and a superior naval man for the navy pulls off. he gets a lot of his gun boats and a whole bunch of supply barges and a run in the middle of the night in the past the guns at vicksburg which enables grant to come across the river south of vicksburg and make his run across mississippi. nobody in vicksburg expects that, and the townspeople and not even really aware of it because the river is that are flying through the confederate army is that grant is leaving. they're retreating. you need controls new orleans. admiral farragut captured new orleans. so word flies that the reason you see across the river, on the louisiana site command you see all these union troops over there marching south, the reason you see that, they're leaving. they're running away. the people want to believe that they convince themselves of it. there is no reason to leave. after the battle of the black river, when the union gunboats are sort of upper river, they began to shell the town of vicksburg all day and all night. suddenly all that wonderful confederate a

david hyde pierce and sigourney weaver. and "kinky boots." one of the stars of "kinky boots" billy porter won leading actor.rmance by an actress in a leading role in a play. that went to cicely tyson. in "the trip to bountiful." >> "kinky boots" was a huge winner. >> the musical won best original score, with music and lyrics by the great cyndi lauper. take a listen. ♪ everybody say yeah, yeah yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah yeah, yeah >> and one of last night's most touching moments was cicely tyson's acceptance speech. >> the 88-year-old actress returned to broadway for the first time in 30 years. she plays a widow in a 1953 era, whose only desire is to revisit her home in bountiful. >> she offered an emotional thank you, but as it happened, she was wrapped toward the end. >> please wrap it up. well, that's exactly what you did with me. you wrapped me up in your arms after 30 years. and now, i can go home with a tony. god bless you all. and thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. >>> her speech itself must have been dynamite. i didn't see it. i was watching the basketball game. but classy all the