CBS Sunday Morning

CBS Sunday Morning

'The Price Is Right' host Bob Barker (October 19, 2008)

Longtime TV game show host and passionate animal rights advocate Bob Barker died on Saturday, August 26, 2023 at age 99. In this profile that originally aired on "Sunday Morning" October 19, 2008, Barker talked with correspondent Rita Braver about his career, activism, retirement, and the time when a "Price Is Right" contestant revealed more than just her enthusiasm after being called to "Come on down!" 
Addded Aug 28, 2023

Robbie Robertson of The Band on 'Testimony'

Musician and songwriter Robbie Robertson, best known for his work with The Band, died August 9, 2023 at age 80. In this "Sunday Morning" profile that originally aired December 18, 2016, Robertson talked with correspondent Anthony Mason about his memoir, "Testimony"; his years playing with Bob Dylan; and the rift with drummer Levon Helm that spelled the end of one of rock's most influential groups. 
Addded Aug 24, 2023

The lyrical gifts of songwriter Lucinda Williams

Grammy-winning songwriter Lucinda Williams was a late-bloomer as a singer, blurring rock, country, folk and blues into such hit albums as "World Without Tears", "West" and "Little Honey." With a new memoir ("Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You"), and a new album ("Stories from a Rock 'n' Roll Heart"), 2023 is shaping up to be a big year for the 70-year-old, just three years after she'd suffered a stroke.
Addded Jun 25, 2023

How beatboxer Kaila Mullady found her voice

Beatboxing is one of the most misunderstood of art forms - vocal percussion in which the lungs and mouth are the instrument. And one of the best beatboxers in the world is Kaila Mullady, who co-organizes the American Beatbox Championships. Correspondent Luke Burbank gets some beatbox pointers from Mullady, and talks with Doug E. Fresh about beatboxing's origins.
Addded Mar 6, 2023

Extended interview: Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir

Nearly 60 years after Bob Weir helped form The Grateful Dead, the band's music is being adapted for the concert hall. In this extended interview, correspondent John Blackstone talks with Weir, now 75, about adapting the Dead's music for a symphony orchestra, the curious life of a song "critter," and the unfinished business resulting from bandmate Jerry Garcia's passing.
Addded Nov 28, 2022

Pulling back the veil of secrecy surrounding McKinsey

In their new book, "When McKinsey Comes to Town," "New York Times" investigative reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe dig inside McKinsey & Company, the consulting firm that has worked with corporate and government clients around the world (from entertainment firms to tobacco companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers).
Addded Oct 9, 2022

David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash speak

Half a century ago, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released one of the greatest albums of the rock era, "Déjà vu." The record would sell eight million copies, but the band, and the friendships, did not endure. "CBS This Morning" co-host Anthony Mason talks with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash about their shared history and the timeless music they produced, as "Déjà vu" gets a delayed 50th-anniversary expanded release.
Addded May 24, 2021
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