i remember clearly one day, she was making dress says, to feed threechildren, my father died.on't have me work on a bad dress. that sentence changed my career. i decided i would never sing a cheap song just to get a hit song. i decided to stay with quality. by doing that, i ended up falling in love with the great american song book. that fred astaire was responsible for. everybody wrote the best songs for him. cole porter, the greatest composures wrote for fred astaire. to this day, two people i love so much, to watch and be entertained by, is fred astaire and sally chaplin. >> to this day? >> those two artists. they knew how to do it. >> i am from indiana, as is cole porter, he is the pride of indiana, i grew up listening to cole porter. >> he was the best. >> one of the best. >> you mentioned earlier, you perhapsed only to do quality stuff, didn't want to do something because a producer begged you to do it to get a quick hit. you have been true to who you are, and your artistically. what makes a great song? great song writers, like smoky robinson, what to them makes a great