whether the grandmas were telling the stories or packing away the stories, grandad, as we called him,le all around. blues whistling. they were from the south, alabama, my grandparents, but they could whistle up a storm and tell these stories. i just recontained all that stuff about human nature. there's where a lot of them came from. tavis: i want to though -- throw some names about some of the groups and you tell me whatever you want to tell me. i want to start with the supremes. it's hard for us to imagine it now but at one point they were known inside the company at the no-hit supremes. they didn't have no hits and y'all went to work and something happened. >> yeah, we had to go to work. we wrote a little song first called "when the love light starts shining in his eyes ." that was a top 30 song and it did fairly well. so they dropped back down in that status, the no-hit supremes area again after that. suddenly i came up with this idea, and i was banging on the piano and -- ♪ baby baby where did our love go ♪ but at first i was going to give it to the valveettes because they were h