Russell Davies - 21/11/2010

With the "Favourite Duets" search reaching its climax, Russell plays the penultimate pair that we've not yet heard - Ray Charles & Betty Carter's "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "Can't We Be Friends" sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong". The centre of the programme takes the form of a tribute to Broadway melodist Jerry Bock who died earlier this month. We hear five songs from five different shows - 'Tenderloin', which gave Bobby Darin his 'Artificial Flowers'; 'Mr Wonderful' from which we hear Peggy Lee's famous recording of the title song; excerpts from 2 Broadway cast recordings - of 'Fiddler On The Roof' ('Do You Love Me?') and 'Fiorello' ('I Love A Cop') - and another title song: 'She Loves Me' sung by Jack Jones. Russell requests help from the audience in identifying the mysterious sound at the end of an early Jean Goldkette recording, asks them to admire Bing Crosby's whistling technique in a Paul Whiteman 1928 recording of a J Fred Coots song and wonders if it's a coincidence that there's whistling in another Coots tune as sung by Pat Boone almost 30 years later.