motown got behind us and give us what we needed.ch a lot of times people today, they make all this money, more money than we ever made. they do not have that training before hand as we did. we did a lot of workshops. when we have that first number one record we were already professionals. tavis: i am glad you said that. when the first hit came seven records in, -- >> look who is laughing now? i am sorry. i did not mean that. tavis: when they first hit came, you are ready for it. it also said something about motown. you got today and get a record deal. you are out of there. the same thing in television. if you're not hitting in the ratings the first couple of weeks. >> i have written several books. this is not the first one but this is the second. it was a bestseller. i am very happy that i did write a lot about that. motown's early give us everything. they really did. i am able 57 years letter to have a real life. it was then that i faxed them i give the credit to in terms of training as and giving that time to develop. it was reall

i grew up on motown, marvin gaye, diana ross, i always had love in the back of my mine, i grew up with 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 of the time

funk, motown, disco. the right on band is here keeping the '70s alive. don't miss their performance coming up at 9:45. ♪ burn, baby burn ♪ >> they have quite a set up. >> they were here at 5:00 in the morning with their truck loading in, and we've been hearing them all morning through the walls. they're incredible. >> i think there's still people coming off the truck. how many people are in this band, it's amazing. >> that's great. good morning, i'm tony perkins. >> i'm sarah simmons. let's check in with tucker barnes who is probably dancing in the weather center. you can probably hear them down there, too. >> i can hear them, but i'm not going to make anybody watch me dance. let's get to the forecast. lots to talk about. no issues today. partly sunny with highs in the low 40s. reagan national 38 degrees. bulls and bwi marshall, 34. cold start. limited sunshine as we have clouds working in from the west. looking at our satellite radar, want to show you the storm system, next one, getting its act together in tennessee, alabama, mississippi. that is quick

records founder berry doherty who fled detroit for l a in the 1970s making the entire motown operation with him to write a theme song for this remodeled after frank sinatra's theme for new york, new york, which had been a hit a few years earlier. it being detroit, a black member of the pack, sammy davis jr. was conscripted to handle vocals but his son, hello detroit, failed to burn up the charts. we used to play it every morning on one of the local radio stations. except in belgium where it reached number one. i didn't know that. it says but now much to the attention being showered on detroit from the trendiest quarter came no small measure thanks to the city's flag. detroit's brandon became authenticity and a key component of this had to do with the way the city looked. fixing the very real problem faced by detroit that began to wonder inevitably robin detroit of some part of its essential detroitness. two your four people in the last couple days to have given the book to read have come to me and asked about that specific last line and they are curious whether what you are saying is o

schemes with gambling, new ballparks, hosting a grand pre, hosting a super bowl, and commissioning motown record's founder who fled detroit for l.a. in the early 1970s taking the entire motown operation with him to write a theme song for the city modeled after frank sinatra's song, new york new york, and davis handled the vocals, but the song, hello, detroit, failed to burp up -- burn up the charts." i remember that. we played it every morning on a local radio station. >> i remember that too, yeah. >> except in belgium where it reached number one. i didn't know that. [laughter] it says, "but now the attention showered on detroit from the trendy quarters came in no small measure thanks to the city's blight. the city's brand was authenticity that had to do with the way the city looked. with fixes the very real problem facing by detroiters, i began to wonder, rorks b detroit -- robbing detroit some part of its essential detroitness." three or four people who i gave the book to read, came back and asked me about that specific last line, and they are curious whether what you're saying is that

but now, at least one motown politician is telling president obama he should bail out detroit bankrupt city government, too. this sure isn't the free market, and i asked why should a texas taxpayer bail out detroit? >>> breaking news from syria, and it is a blockbuster. the assad regime is walking and loading its chemical weapons, ready to use them on its own people. nbc's chief pentagon correspondent joins us now. jim, is this the red line president obama was warning about? >> well, not quite yet. u.s. officials tell us that the syrian military is poised to use chemical weapons against their own people, and all it would take really is the final order from syrian president assad. but we have learned that as of today, all the precursored chemicals for that deadly nerve gas have in fact now been loaded on to aerial bombs, but those bombs are still in the depots. they haven't been loaded on to airplanes yet, and president assad hasn't given the order. but they're pretty close, larry, and that's why earlier this week, of course, president obama issued a very strong statement aimed at presi

announcer: tonight pbs remembers motown's early years. ♪ i remember mama said ♪ you can't hurry love, you just have to wait ♪ my mama told me ♪ you better shop around ♪ oh, yeah, you better shop around ♪

i thought i left this place. >> reporter: within a few months, motown had left him too.r putting out an album. >> how much of a blow was that when they dropped you? >> the biggest blow. that was a hard phone call, to call my mom and dad and say, i'm no longer a signed artist. i got to rethink this whole thing. >> reporter: broke, he started going to pawn shops. his guitars were all he had left to sell. going home to honolulu was tempting. but he resisted. >> if i moved back to hawaii, then i felt like i would have never made it back up here. i would have been at the polynesian review with a ukelele and an aloha shirt probably singing elvis tunes again. >> reporter: so he teamed up with two other songwriters, philip lawrence and ari levine. their goal? to write a hit song. >> we knew that we could do it. if we kept going, if kept trying, if we kept pushing we were going to write the song that's going to change our lives. >> reporter: and it did. yeah. wrote a few songs that changed our lives. you see the jewelry. ♪ go ♪ go all over the world >> reporter: performed with hi

unpleasant putin says it's now or never as he calls on buses no make is to overhaul the economy motown's corruption and stem the outflow of the country's wealth. you're watching all to see broadcasting live from a brand new h.d. studios here in moscow i mean. under a very warm welcome to the program to egypt trust where the brotherhood and its opponents are claiming that the country has not only voted to bonk the disputed draft constitution in around one a referendum so the claim is based on an official tallies there for sure results will not be announced until after the next stage so they dry out by the islamist but has been slammed by the opposition so our correspondent is in cairo for us what will. be to tell you right here in the capital in cairo as people have been waiting for these key results on the referendum of the constitution in the last few hours we've got preliminary results of course traditional. to come out of the second round indicate that it was a yes but the most a brotherhood together with the media outlets numbers and matching up there saying approximately fifty six p

today, with unemployment hovering near 20%, motown is a tough place to find a job. that is, unless you happen to be dealing in one of the few lines of merchandise that still pays around here -- the buying and selling of sex for cash. >> we actually have a number of partners that are in the task force. >> special agent michael glennon heads up the fbi's human trafficking task force in michigan. >> why the need for a task force when it comes to this issue of human trafficking, sex trafficking? >> in detroit a lot of people don't realize that we're kind of a hub of both recruitment as well as a destination city and recruitment city. that as well as the end of the i-74 corridor, there's a lot of truck traffic and a lot of components that make it a very popular area for trafficking unfortunately. >> today the task force has invited us to ride along for a firsthand look at their efforts to combat the illicit sex trade in the motor city. >> our objective overall obviously is recover as many juveniles as possible. second unto that is build cases. >> investigators begin the

detroit and the smoky bar where, back in the late '60s, he was discovered by dennis coffey, a legendary motownutting his poems to music of what he saw. and it was definitely a very gritty look at what he saw on the streets of detroit. the only writer that i had heard of of that time period was maybe bob dylan, that was writing that well. ♪ ♪ ♪ lost my heart when i found it ♪ >> simon: coffey co-produced his first album, "cold fact." critics liked it, but it bombed. steve rowland was responsible for his second. it did no better. >> steve rowland: nobody in america had even heard of him. nobody... nobodyven was interested in listening to him. how can that be? how can that be? ♪ ♪ >> simon: and how could it be that no one in america knew that rodriguez had become an icon in south africa? steve segerman owns a record store in cape town. >> steve segerman: to many of us south africans, he was the soundtrack to our lives. if you walked into a random white, liberal, middle-class household that had a turntable and a pile of pop records, you would always see "cold fact" by rodriguez. to us, it was one

and his favorite thanksgiving food is bologna. [ laughter ] for this last one, how about a motown style♪ well all right my friend homey says he's going homey ♪ ♪ just for thanksgiving plans ♪ ♪ my friend homey got up out of his seat because jimmy had asked him to say ♪ ♪ i said what's your favorite thing to eat on thanksgiving homey said bologna for real ♪ ♪ i like bologna i like bologna that's my one and only that's my one and only ♪ ♪ my favorite homie my favorite homie ooh bologna ♪ >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about! [ cheers and applause ] my thanks to homey. thanks to these guys. thanks to the roots. we'll be right back with taylor lautner! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ we can feel it when we wake up ♪ ♪ were all travelin 'cause ♪ tonight were sittin' around the table ♪ ♪ the holiday when were able...♪ ♪ something in the air something in the air ♪ ♪ it's christmas in the air that keeps us together♪ bye daddy! bye! bye girls, love you daddy, we made you a video for your trip! yeah, watch it on the airplane! ok here you go aw, thanks girls yeah hey, i also made you a video aw,

the president living it up in motown last hour calling on republicans to stop being party poopers. >> i believe america only succeeds and thrives when we've got a strong and growing middle class. i want us to bring down our deficits but i want to do it in a balanced, responsible way. and i want to reward -- i want a tax code that rewards businesses and manufacturers, like detroit diesel right here creating jobs right here in redford, right here in michigan. right here in the united states of america. >> rhetoric like that might be working. look at the headline today. end game approaching as it's looking more and more likely that the republicans forced to give in on taxes. house speaker john boehner after a secret white house meeting this weekend says the lines of communication between both sides remain open. but what would the gop demand for a concession on taxes and how much leverage do they have left? let's bring back dr. jay john allen for politico. how are you, sir? >> doing very well. i was concerned about the wheel of misfortune there on the fiscal cliff. >> i'm worried about it

. >> labor unions are sing an angry tune in motown. the signature on the right to work legislation makes michigan the 24th state to enact such a law preventing them from acquiring membership and dues. it's an important strike at organized labor in a strong union state. nearly in five workers are unionized. the massive protests with 12,000 strong reflect a backlash to what's happening in other parts of the country. it's not just wisconsin or ohio. they have become the latest scott walker. >> this guy who really looks pleasant enough, maybe it won't be so bad. the phrase right to work is a positive and up living message. can it do to unions? the law probably strengthens unions. >> if this is a right to work state, it makes it illegal for unions and employers to man tateidate that employees be part of the union or pay money to that union. >> or destroy when they have to stay afloat. one or the other. >> kagy gray is the reporter for the detroit free press and joins us now. this happened very quickly. it looks like we have not seen the end

this is motown, this is detroit, this is the heart of the american automobile industry. is still alive and kicking. we're just not forcing people to pay the money. >> people have a right to associate and the right to join labor unions. i am not against labor unions. like the end of the day at 5:00 for most people, you like weekends off? that was free unions really organizing often against the state. now the state it's in their pocket by saying you must contribute to this union whether you like it or not. tracy: they hold so much power and yet their numbers are diminishing by the second. >> yes, that is also what they fear. without the power of the state to compel people to join or to contribute their numbers will shrink even more. as society changes and we have been less industrialized and more high-tech like this great one for which the three of us work, not have unions, the influence of the labor union is diminished or isolated into a small part of the economy. they would like to expand their influence, they would like more politicians like barack obama who will give t

audiences were moving to the music of motown and blues clubs were closing.rk. i met a guy at the club sparky was his name he said no flies in the butter milk no flies in the butter milk. i said what does that mean? the audience is primarily white. why do you think that is? >> i know me and bb king talked about that. >> reporter: i get a sense you don't care what the audience is. >> music don't have a color. >> reporter: buddy guy's unique style was now influencing artists all around the world. clapton. santana. hendrix. but life on the road was ruining relationships at home. >> i dedicated myself to the music and both of my ex-wives would come down and say i'm glad you took the good times instead of me. >> reporter: why? >> i still help them. >> reporter: you have -- >> eight children. >> reporter: eight children. >> between the two. six and two. >> reporter: do you have regrets your marriages didn't work out? >> you know that's a good question. i don't know because if i had stayed there, one of them told me it's me or the guitar, and i took the guitar. >> r