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Russell Davies - 27/06/2010

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Almost the entire show this week is taken up with a centennial tribute to songwriter Frank Loesser. Russell concentrates mostly on the pieces for which he wrote both melody and words, though we do hear some of his early collaborations when he was known solely as a lyricist. Russell does make one brief detour from Loesser to reveal an hilarious gaffe perpetrated by singer Janet Seidel (made all the funnier because it's a repeat of the same error that Sarah Vaughan made - in a different song - 50 years earlier).