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. 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 that 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 what you do with the song. ta

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william smokey robinson like bob dylan has been called one of the greatest living poets of our time.which featured love tunes like "ohh baby baby" and the timeless emotions felt by the miracles singing "the tracks of my tears". ♪ people say i'm the life of the party because i tell a joke or two although i might be laughing loud and hearty deep inside i'm blue so take a good look at my face you'll see my smile looks out of place if you look closer, it's easy to trace the tracks of my tears.. i need you, need you since you left me if you see me with another girl seeming like i'm having fun although she may be cute she's just a substitute because you're the permanent one.. so take a good look at my face you'll see my smile looks out of place if you look closer, it's easy to trace the tracks of my tears.. i need you, need you outside i'm masquerading inside my hope is fading just a clown oh yeah since you put me down my smile is my makeup i wear since my break up with you... so take a good look at my face you'll see my smile looks out of place if you look closer, it's easy to trace the t

as we go to break, from the night michael died, here's smokey robinson talking about his friend, michael jackson. >> i first met michael when the kids first came to mo-town and they did a show, actually at barry's home in detroit. they did a show for us there. they were so dynamic. to see a little guy like michael was at that time, singing like he had been here forever, you know, singing like an old man, was just an incredible experience. >> did you know he was going to be a hit? >> oh, absolutely. it was obvious. >> this was a no doubter? >> it was a no doubter. it was obvious. like i said, he's like an old soul. he sang like he had before, when he was 10. i knew he was going to be great. s what a lipstick can't. it's never sticky cuz it's a stain. and it won't leave your lips cuz it's outlast lipstain. bi [ male announcer ] from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. >>> welcome back it to a special edition of "larry king live." i'm jim moret. reverend al sharpton is speaking. gladys knight has already sung. lisa marie is quite emotional, we hear. she's sitting in the last row. elizabeth t

, raphael saadiq, who, if you have not heard him, he has got the smoothest sound this side of smokey robinson. >> thank you, thank you. i've been playing music for a long time. i felt like it was time for me to spread this kind of love to the world. >> well, you want to check out the raphael saadiq brand of love coming up with kathie lee -- i'm very afraid of her -- and hoda ko kotb. >> i like the tie. >> mutual admiration society. let's check out the weather, see what's going on. a lot of wet weather in georgia. the good news is, it's lightened up, and that is great. because we are looking at over the next 24 hours about an inch or so of rain, but that will be the worst of it. then as we go out into texas, we're looking at a frontal system bringing rain down into houston, down to corpus christi. rainfall amounts there, again, just about an inch to maybe two inches of rain. the good news is, theyç#ç#ç#ç#ço >>> good morning. the overcast is beginning to lift a bit. we couldn't see the top of the washington monument obscured by the low clouds and now it's beginning to lift a bit. the fog that w

recovery ever. 10,000 of us will gather in lower manhattan, march over the brooklyn bridge, and smokey robinsonalso works to be part of the solution. we will have several interventionists from the hit show "intervention" at the rally as well tomorrow. it's just a positive gathering of people in sobriety to celebrate the fact that they're no longer hooked on booze or pills. >> that's exactly what it is. incredibly positive and, boy, don't we need that? don't we need that, jane? >> yes, we have to be in the solution, not just the problem. >> good stuff. and congratulations to you for getting to be the center of that. i love it, jane. i love it. >> i'm excited. >> have a good weekend. >> you, too. >> catch "issues" every night at 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln. >>> security scare on the potomac on the anniversary of september 11th. now, the coast guard is responding to what it says was just a training exercise. don't go anywhere. @ @úh@; 8twxepg0ep%p'pk@,l3uñ >>> well, you saw this chase live a little while ago. very unlikely driver. even though chases aren't that unusual, but this driver w