you got steve morris and stevie wonder on here.ou going to tell about these choices and why you decided to touch that stuff. >> the first thing. this is my first time approaching stevie wonder because i do believe like you say, some folks -- you just can't mess with their music. stevie wonder is one of them. that's why it took me until -- however old i am to cover him music. his music is like the sound track of my life growing up. i have all of his albums. i think he's an incredible genius and he has a stamp. that song the way it evolved in the stude joe. >> tavis: that is if it is magic. great song, nice tempo. you slow it down. it was already throw. -- show, you slowed it down. >> we took it to a dream space. it sits in the center of the whole project. it is almost as if it is a place we could go inside. it is a wonderful arrangement. the musicians are improvising. tavis: when you say it sits at the center of the project. i don't know if you mean that literally. tell me about it being the center of the pronl >> we're going in and

[applause] >> how many know the song living in the city by stevie wonder. that great skit at end where stevie plays all the voices and gets arrested. new york city, skyscrapers and everything. this is a poem that reimagines that gentlemen exists the bus in that skit as john henry. this is a section of it. skyscrapers and everything. j hammer henry mallet [inaudible] could barely fit hammer poking out like natural man's skyscraper to the concrete for deep machine sleep abouts income. don't go john henry traffic man, don't go across that street. the flood song poems were poems written in reaction to katrina. how can i enter that space of writing poems about that. i'm not from there and don't have family there. who benefits from that tragedy? who benefits from that disregard for humanity and the thought animals would benefit from that. this first poem is flood songs number 4 mosquitoes drinking didy. >> drink every hour next up this hour and every hour after. was born in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour on the hour and every hour after.

[ laughter ] stevie!the reissue contains a more upbeat, joyful version of "racing in the streets." con -- it contains a darker, more brooding version of "santa claus is coming to town." [ laughter ] ♪ you'd better watch out you'd better not cry you'd better not pout i'm telling you -- ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: darker, brooding version. why? pro -- bruce! con -- jenner! [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] any fans of wheaties out there? the kardashians? pro -- the album cover shows a young artist struggling to deal with fame and disillusionment with the music industry. con -- it also looks like the world's first american apparel ad. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] pro -- the previously unheard song "save my love" is streaming free at brucestringsteen.net con -- seriously, he couldn't get brucespringsteen.com? what's going on? [ laughter ] what's the problem there? >> steve: he should call the internet. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: pro -- it's cool to look through the notebook and see the kind of

and it's ironic because i met stevie at t 12, aretha at -- michael at 12, it is an interesting thing.ew at 12. >> they knew. they knew, they really were-- stevie had fingertips-- i met him at the-- he really, had hit records. and aretha came, you can tell her influence from her father, he had two hit records. and in the hoop at the end, you can feel aretha's voice. i can hear it. >> rose: what was it about sinatra's voice? >> he had drama and he had everything. number one he had the best songs ever written. made arrangements, best bands, the best of everything and the best voice. and he also had the drama, the sense of drama. >> rose: that you could hear in his voice. >> yes. the first time i ever worked with him, i was working in paris as a musical director. i had a 55 piece house band and i came to the studio one day and said quincy, grais kelly's office called mr. sinatra wants you to bring all 55 people down on the train to monday octobero for a fund-raiser. i couldn't wait. we were on that train so fast. and we played with him and he did one thing. we played, and he was hanging w

knew the wind was in the by twenty five sixteen the fans were out a surprisingly far from full blame stevie i ethiopian how league has shown on numerous occasions recently he can go the distance better than most meaning the thirty seven year old is still the man to beat at his first new york marathon on sunday the multiple time world record holder busy plotting his way ahead of one of the five world. you know new york it's not the i want to run for a time you know the one you're on we'd. of course in order to more time. for me. what i like i like an office called i'm enough though it doesn't matter at all what kind of course but it's better than all. that i thought to be pretty hostile thirty seven and still going strong now i finally a group of less able children from some petersburg are about to see one of their wildest dreams come true the little footballers who only two time world player of the year roll denio no less after winning a tournament in their native city picks up the story. i am meeting was ronald d. new goal mainly keats imagine in their wildest dreams but this scenario will

investigating that and also him investigating him moving the official away and there was the statement about stevieder and throwing in anne frank before realizing helen keller. >> and there may have been a lot of aggravation going on. are we agreeing on that? >> yeah. >> lots going on. >> ain't that the truth. >> coming up on coffee with. >> i just don't want the e- mails. i want to keep it an easy week. coming up on coffee with -- we've got jack lelane joining us. and he's in his 90s. he was bringing fitness home. you know? have a chair, have a break. june cleaver of the world, i'm going to make you a healthy american woman. well, he's really cool. they're still at it. the god father of fitness is joining us. sitting down with a legend to be honest about it. first warning weather and nothing but great news. could you handle it close to 70 degrees next sunday. i hope so. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> watch for a wreck in belfast road. you can see, we have delays there back to mt. carmel road. and meantime, an accident at hampstead and that's possibly involving a tractor trailer and 95, southbound from whi

bruce springsteen, stevie van zandt. for more of the roots and the e street band when we get back.e on! ♪ >> yeah, baby! it's "wiggle waggle"! "wiggle waggle." >> jimmy: he's quick, man. he's quick, man. >>h! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: did you see that? this was his genuine reaction. he was like, "go to commercial break. oh, my! it's 'wiggle waggle!'" [ laughter ] "that was 'wiggle waggle!'" >> questlove: we had less than 60 seconds to learn it. >> jimmy: how diyou do it? >> questlove: i looked it up on my computer and found somebody that had put it on youtube. the hard part was trying to practice to it without interrupting the -- >> jimmy: how did you do it? did you talk in the mike? >> it was a hail mary throw. it was a hail mary throw. jimmy: man, oh, man. well, you caught it and got a touchdown on that one. two-point conversion. that was fantastic, buddy. [ cheers and applause ] thank you, roots. you guys are unbelievable. i'm so thankful you guys are here. we have such a fun show tonight, you guys. the lovely and talented actress, one of our pals, amanda peet is joining

our guests the rest of the week includes stevie wonder, vladimir putin, the prime minister of russia, mike tyson, the former heavyweight champion, carlos slim, the richest man in the world, terry fetta, the brilliant impressionist and venn tril -- ventriloquist. bob woodward is the associated editor of ""the washington post" with his latest "obama's wars" a runaway best seller. we'll hear more from him after hillary clinton's reaction to the latest wikileaks document leaks. watch. >> the united states strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. it puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. >> larry: all right. no one knows more about revealing things, judging things, reporting on things. you've heard the first half of this show. you've heard from the secretary of state. what do you think, bob? >> well, i guess i would take a moderate position. first of all, a lot of it is not new. there was much hand wringing about the disclosure, that it was our weapon that w

actually, the film was my first love and i watched a documentary called stevie by steve james to also directed hoop dreams that won an oscar, and i'm getting a little of that away but at the end somebody goes to prison, and the young lady i had been dating said you know what, i'm going to look him up and see how he's doing. and i sort of was looking over her shoulder and i said that's a lot of information, you know, publicly available about this gentleman and says that is nothing. you should see texas and she led me to this amazing website, very encyclopedic everything from appeal process to descriptions of the crime to last meals and finally last words and she was up reading this long after i went to bed and after a little digging i was just appalled actually. it was the absence of a work like this that compelled me to do it. my book is not political. it simply asks if these are the most dangerous revival people in society why did the remaining cultural value uphold what they say and then of course what can we learn from them and here i am seven years later. >> i have to the answers