. >>> se presentaba en una obra de teatro en broadway con paul simÓn y marc anthony, yo fui, hablÁbamos pero eso ya hace diez aÑos se haquo de eso, y vuelve otra vez, lamento mucho eso. >>> quÉ mensaje le envÍas si estÁ mirando ante nuestras cÁmaras esta entrevista. >>> hazte la prueba y te dejare tranquilo. >>> el parecido es impresionante, dijo que no tiene prueba alguna, solo la palabra de su madre. en nueva york, danila polanco "primer impacto." >>> gracias daneira. 5 compositores ingresaron al pabellÓn de la fama de los compositores latinos, fue anoche en miami. desfilaron muchos famosos, tony estuvo presente, preparÓ el siguiente recuento, veamos. >>> desfilaron cantaautores e invitados especiales, como andy garcÍa que llegÓ con su madre, ella dijo que es fiel televidente de "primer impacto." >>> me encanta. >>> cÓmo se siente en esta noche? >>> bueno, cÓmo se va a sentir uno? por la ropa que es grandes. >>> su famoso hijo recibiÓ un premio especial, muy pocos saben que tiene muchas pomcomposiciones. >>> sÍ, muchas para mi propia pelÍcula. >>> muy importante para ti una banda sono

cab cal obey, jay mcsham, buoy, daisy duke, ray charles, aretha, paul simon, frank sinatra, michael jacksonhat's the whole 20th century of black music. >> ludicrous, snoop dogg, everybody. incredible, man. it is a blessing and i receive it very gracefully. >> when you got into the music business, you began as an artist. playing the trumpet. how did you get your first big break? >> i wanted to be a gangster until i was 12. >> before music, you wanted to be a gangster? >> yeah. my dad was a master carpenter in chicago in the depression. five million black people and he was a carpenter for the city's most serious triple owe gees on the planet, the jones boyce. i got my medals, switchblade, seven years old, ice pick in my head. >> so what got you out of the gang life and into the music? >> oh, no, no. my father was busy all the time. my mother was put in a mental home. so he was never home to look out after us. he was working and all. he was working with these guys. capone found out that they started a policy racket in the first black-owned businesses. the five and dime stores. they made $100 m

i learned all the paul simon songs. as i got older -- >> he is a hell of a guitarist. people do not realize. he is not flashy, but if you try to learn his tunes, they are really hard. >> he is a brilliant guitar player. i eventually got interested in jazz, world music, everything. maybe that is one of the reasons. i enjoyed so many kinds of music, i did not have a preference. i did not want to be anything in particular. i just wanted to play guitar and get that sound that i was hearing in my head. >> is there a particular song of yours that you can trace back to and influence, sound that you were trying to get that you heard somebody else use and you wanted to use it? >> i will play you a few bars from a piece that i wrote in the 1970's, very much influenced by the british isles style. this one is called "inverness." ♪ >> i am cutting it short, but, to me, that is the quintessential british isles style. >> although, in your hand, it is more harmonically complex. >> it could be. >> one of the things i was trying to do -- i became a big fan of keith jarrett when i was yo

he's a legend in the business who has worked with giants including billy joel, paul simon, barbra streisand, fring sinatra and ray charles. >>> finally, justin bieber's brand-new pet monkey, yes, he's got a monkey now. why not a goldfish? it was kwaurn tquarantined at at because of insufficient papers. don't worry, he's doing okay. >> is biebs doing okay? he's the one i'm worried about. >> some reports saying the name is mali. it gets more and more interesting with justin bieber. >> he's bored. that's all i can say. >>> this comes to us from kxas in dallas ft. worth where one couple overycame their darkest ever. one of the nation's full transplant patients was married in the same spot where he wasser is veerly injured in 2008. weems met jamie nash after her own nearly fatal crash in 2010. the couple say they plan to put their painful past behind them. >> so much in common. they can relate to each other. >> love it. i'm richard lui. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> leading the news in "the l.a. times," charged egyptian satirist remains irr

cab cal obey jay mcsham, buoy daisy duke ray charles aretha paul simon, frank sinatra michael jackson. >> that's the whole 20th century of black music. >> ludicrous, snoop dogg everybody. incredible, man. it is a blessing and i receive it very gracefully. >> when you got into the music business, you began as an artist. playing the trumpet. how did you get your first big break? >> i wanted to be a gangster until i was 12. >> before music, you wanted to be a gangster? >> yeah. my dad was a master carpenter in chicago in the depression. five million black people and he was a carpenter for the city's most serious triple owe gees on the planet the jones boyce. i got my medals, switchblade, seven years old, ice pick in my head. >> so what got you out of the gang life and into the music? >> oh, no no. my father was busy all the time. my mother was put in a mental home. so he was never home to look out after us. he was working and all. he was working with these guys. capone found out that they started a policy racket in the first black-owned businesses. the five and dime stores. they made $10

. - "paul simon." - i don't get that, but it hurts. look, i love a good joke, but i am their boss, and, at a certain point, it crosses a line. to quote rodney dangerfield, "hey, i-- hey, i..." no, let's see... - lemon, if you're about to say that you don't get any respect, you're right. i mean, in a post-apocalyptic world, how would society even use you? - traveling bard. - radiation canary. i have to run, lemon. i have an appointment in washington. the hearings on the kabletown-nbc deal are underway, and the company has entrusted me to be their front man. - hey, will you ask congress where they put the usa network? i've been trying to find monk for, like, three months. - the only thing i will be discussing with the house subcommittee on baseball, quiz shows, terrorism, and media is vertical integration. - what's vertical integration? - imagine that your favorite corn chip manufacturer also owned the number one diarrhea medication. - that'd be great, 'cause then they could put a little sample of the medicine in each bag. - keep thinkin

he's a legend in the business who has worked with giants like billy joel, paul simon, barbara streisand charles. >>> i'm betty nguyen. "way too early" starts right now. >>> good morning, i'm bill karins and this is "way too early." thanks for being up with us on this monday, april fool's day. we have a lot to cover today including new signs that even background checks are dead on arrival in the senate. now some republican lawmakers are threatening a filibuster calling it a bridge too far. for what's left. overseas, a man who's being dogged egypt's jon stewart thrown in jail after speaking out against the government of president muhammad morsi. not a good sign for the government there. >>> finally, a

of the supreme court-ney thorn smith-sonian museum of modern art garfunkel, bringing it back to paul simonsimon, simon says "hand on head, no, instead -- here's a tip, flip the script, hand on hip," hip-hop, bringing it back to the roots, the legendary band in all of the land, they're lending a hand on nbc, studio 6b, "late night" with me, jimmy fallon. how do you like me now? [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> i get it. you're better than me. [ light laughter ] this is all i had going for me, though. i'm going to be alone forever. i'm out of here. [ audience aws ] ♪ >> jimmy: hey. whoa, hey, come on. come on, i'm sorry. come on back. ♪ come on, mets bucket hat guy. come on. [ laughter ] all right. hey, whoa, whoa. don't make that face. come on, man. i'm sorry. [ audience aws ] we were just playing around and we were just having -- having -- ♪ there he is. come on. there's my pal. there you go. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ yeah. come on. thank you very much. come on back. oh, come on, man. don't look back at me again. [ light laughter ] you're really milking this. come on, buddy. come on back. i'm

as paul simon once sang? sure. absolutely.ory published this morning saying, quote, i want to ask people to give me a second chance. i do want to have that conversation with people who i let down and people who put their faith in me and who want to support me. i think to some degree i want to say to them, give me another chance. i think it is -- entirely obviously up to the voters of new york city and will be rough because that media environment is very difficult as you know. but it is certainly possible. huma, his wife and mother of their son, is standing by him and supportive. at the end of the day, i've seen much stranger things happen than anthony weiner returning to public life. >> i'm sure you have, after all your years in washington. speaking of, big day today, as far as the gun debate, compromise now. brokered between these two senators and it sounds like you have landed both of them. >> that's right. we're going to have the first joint interview with the republican and democratic senator who are trying toing ir this c