i grew up on motown, marvin gaye, diana ross, i always had love in the back of my mine, i grew up witheavy d, the concept with him was let's take the eye off his weight and put your eye more on his style and his heart, and his swag. so when he was singing "i want somebody to love me for me" ♪ >> that was always the concept style and love and attitude. >> you gave us ghetto love, mary j. blige singing -- that is a great image. what happened to that stuff? >> in the 80s, radio, black radio especially was about rap. it wasn't necessarily a lot of love in rap. >> one of the things you mentioned was motown how the uptown sound becomes a response to motown and the critics said andre harrell was over his head, once he got to the big corporation he couldn't handle it. >> they knew me coming in the door they were this far in the hole and they could have said to me "we should do it this way" had to tell me i'll let you build the biggest record company. takes five years to build it. i was only there for six months before stuff started popping up in the papers. >> that is one of the reasons most o

only black folks in a white neighborhood the party that they were at, they were playing salsa, marvin gaye, and we were hanging out after the birthday party. we got caught up in a situation where the police had been called for shots fired. we happened to be the only black people there, they got us and put us in jail. that was the first day that you mentioned. the long and short of it is, i was in my second year of law school at the time. i am reading all these things about criminal procedure, criminal law. the stuff that is on the books is not what is happening on the streets. don't i have some kind of rights? miranda or something? they just did what they want and it was the first time that somebody had taken my body and had physically done something with me -- except raimondi, a different category. [laughter] they put me and handcuffs and they did all of that. so i wrote about it. my lawyer, she was also a teacher. she encouraged me to tell my story. the next week, the assignment in class, it was to talk about -- writing about an experience of injustice. i was ready to send this. i did no

5, bill withers, barry white, gladys knight and the pips, aretha franklin and smokey robinson, marvin gaye, stevie wonder, and more . [music playing] don cornelius: soul train, the hippest trip in america. 60 nonstop minutes across the tracks of your mind, into the exciting world of soul. we think of gladys knight as our gladys knigh and the pips of course as our pips, simply because their appearance on our very first show. it's actually what helped us get this show off the ground. as they join us now to do for the first time on soul train, their original and very first version of "i heard it through the grapevine," let's welcome them warmly, gladys and the pips! [applause] gladys knight: ♪ooh, i bet you're wond'rin' how i knew baby, baby, baby, 'bout your plans to make me blue with some other girl you knew before between the two of us girls ya know i love you more it took me by surprise i must say

well, marvin gaye. >> has to be? >> marvin did it for me. you understand me?n national television? i mean, in other words -- yeah, marvin was -- marvin -- did it have a barry white night. >> barry white and smoky robinson. i'm kind of giving it to you -- >> and candle lit rooms? >> you understand. yes. >> let's get to the sculpture in the "hello" video. tell me about the sculpture. >> well, first of all, it was a nightmare. everyone thinks it was a wonderful scene. no, no, no. i spent -- bob while we were filming this during the video, i kept following him around going, bob, i saw the bust, it doesn't look like me. he says, i'll talk to you later. we'll talk about it. now we're getting closer to the scene. i said, bob, i want to talk to you. the bust does not look like me. and now of course we're shooting the scene. he says, lionel, she's blind. you understand? >> i understand. >> immediately i said, i understand. i had to be sensitive again. but i hated the way it looked, okay? so immediately after -- i mean, 20/20 hindsight i should have saved it, of course,

first i'd put heaven by your side ♪ ♪ pretty flowers would grow wherever you want, honey ♪ >>> marvin gaye morning, you're get nothing love on screen for it. >> i know. >> we give you credit right here. >> they assumed everyone would know what it is. >> you always think "ain't no mountain high enough" and i thought "if i could build my world around you" was good. >>> more than 3,000 santorum sweateren vests have been sold. hogan gidley tweeted the warmer temperatures make this difficult to believe but rick santorum has sold more than 3,000 sweater vests, fear ricks vest. go onloan and for a contribution of $100 or more, you get a gray sweatervest, only one color, and you fill out obviously the appropriate paperwork on the website but when you get this wrapped and delivered at christmastime from me with love. >> thank you. >> that's a great graphic, 300,000, romney. i think santorum is winning that category in the sweater vest fund-raising. >> homophobes who have a large collection of sweatervest, but romney is selling us loafers without tassels. >> we're ransacking the attic for ways of ma

i try to read history, drink dirty martinis, listen to marvin gaye, watch "true blood." vampires, everything. >> this has been fabulous. our thanks to katrina vanden h euvel, publisher of "the nation." [applause] we want to remind everybody that copies of her book are on sale in the lobby. she would be pleased to sign them. we aappreciate your allowing her to make her wait the lobby as quickly as possible. this meeting is adjourned. [applause]