smokey robinson, one of the greatest songwriters of all time, covering your song. ve heard your cover of this. smokey has still got it. the third thing is, of all of the songs to cover, why did you choose that one? >> i am a song lover. some songs give me that impact when i first hear them. that was one of those songs. i heard it and i loved the melody. it had a calypso version of its period -- of it. it was such an abstract love song. i just loved the song. i am a song lover. tavis: when you hear a song like that of any song and you decide that you went to cover it, tell me more about smokey's process. what is your process when you decide you're going to cover the song and put your own flavor on it? >> that is what i do the first time. i hear it over and over again. i decide how i would want to sing the song if i was singing it. i do thatat verse and then i get together with my conductor. there were two guys, there were both keyboard players. we would just get an arrangement together and go into the studio and not get out. " because you are such a genius, i hear wh

it >>i am alwaysleased, honored, a humble to have smokey robinson on this ogram. all of these years we haveeen featuring conversationsith the great motwn legends ase celebrate the 50th anniversary of motown. fore there was marvin or stie or the jason five, there was a guy named smoy ronson. he helped put motown o the map with their no. 1 signal -- sing. his new cd is called "timelies when you're having fun." here is some of the new single. ♪ you will be a min rever do not know why i did n come ♪ tavis: when i first heard this song on the rad, three things went through my mind almost immediately. but what an honor it must be to ha smok, th all of th songs he has wrien, to cover yo song. orah jones is somewre grinning ear to ear. smokey binson, one of the greatest songwters of all time, cering your song. i have heard your ver ofhis. smokey has sll got it. the third thing is, of all o he songto cover, why did u choos that one? >> i am asong lover. some songs give me that impact when i first hear them. that was one of those songs. i heard it and loved the melody. it h

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. >> larry: smokey robinson said the seemingly endless media coverage has made the mourning process harder for him. what do you make of the fact that the story never ends? >> well, it's a great loss to the world and especially to me and my family and i guess people realize this is a great person, a great humanitarian besides the entertainer part. he's just a wonderful person. >> larry: so the fact that it's in the papers every day and on television every night, it becomes -- you're not upset by it? you understand it? >> yeah. well, not that i understand a lot of the things they say because i hate that jacko crap. they need to stop that. it's just getting the facts. they need to know the facts. everybody is saying they are doing business but there are facts. >> larry: we'll get to some tonight. what about the plans -- any plans for laying michael to rest? so many people are interested in that. >> i am also. >> larry: who decides it? >> my mother and i guess i want him at neverland and there's a question -- there's a question. but still -- >> larry: she's your mother. can't you say, hey, mom

. >> larry: smokey robinson said the media coverage has made the mourning process harder for him. what do you make of the fact that the story never ends? >> well, it's a great loss to the world. and especially to me and my family and i guess people realize this is a great person. he is a wonderful person. >> the fact that it's in the papers every day and on television every night becomes -- you're not upset by it? >> well -- >> you understand it? >> yes. well not that i understand a lot of things they say. because i hate that jacko crap. they need to stop. that it's just getting the facts. they need to know the facts. because everybody thinks there are seven papers and doing business. there are facts. and that's the thing. >> larry: we'll get to some tonight. so many people are interested in that. who decides that? >> my mother. and i guess i want him at neverland. and there's a question. but still -- >> she's your mother. so can't she say, hey mom -- >> i'm not the only one, larry. there are so many. >> larry: what does your mother say? does she give you any hint? >> well, she --

ladies and gentlemen, smokey robinson. thank you so much, sir. i want to thank my guests, quentin tarantino, mark feuerstein, of course, andy richter, max weinberg and ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that sounds good. hot show tonight. hot show. hot crowd. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. happy thursday, happy thursday. let's get right to the news. oprah winfrey, she was number one on the "forbes" list of most influential women in media. oprah celebrated by buying "forbes." that was nice of her. [ laughter ] that's a fun way to celebrate. a judge dismissed donald trump's court case against an author who questioned trump's claim that he was worth $3 billion. it's been going on for

lubricated a lot of the racial integration into, broke it is hard to be a racist when you slowdowns to smokey robinsons the straight jazz musicians and call themselves the fall of brothers they stayed in the studio all day then went out after hours to hear the improvisation and then you hear it in the music that change pop culture. >> host: it are we seeing what we saw in the auto industry? >> board put a lot of hype in this new cared day open-ended 10,000 into new dealerships to deal with the huge demand but it turns out there was a postwar boom but then a recession began that was a more premium car, a bigger car, people did not have the money they were looking for smaller cars it was also the year they started to build compact and also the first indication that detroit could not determine the market and a more than the united states government could determine what was going on in the rest of the world. you can look back to that date as foretelling is a lot of things about the limits of superpower and the supermarket power. >> host: we have the republican in line good morning. >> caller: your book so