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...Nuthin', and plenty of improvised solos are sprinkled throughout. To keep the spirit of improvisation intact, Bethlehem indulged in some offbeat casting, with surprising results. Frances Faye's bone-dry, heart-of-gold style is strangely apt as the voice of the inconstant Bess, and Mel Tormé's smoky tones give a proper touch of pathos to the part of the crippled Porgy. The oily voice of Al ("Jazzbo") Collins fills in narrative gaps between tunes. This procedure dilutes some of Porgy's dramatic excitement, but musically it is an exhilarating affair...
Basin Street Jazz (Sat. 10:05 p.m.-> CBS). With Mel Torm...
Divorced. Mel Tormé, 29, wheezy radio and screen crooner; by Candy Toxton (real name: Florence Toxstein), 29, onetime cinemactress (Knock on Any Door) ; after six years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Stranger in Town (Mel Tormé; Capitol). The "velvet fog" is back with a lonely mood number that combines the story of That Old Gang of Mine with some of the feeling of One for My Baby...
...with Morton Downey as M.C., now has a husband and wife team in charge: Peter Lind Hayes, genteel mugger and nightclub comic, and pretty Mary Healy, singing comedienne with a pleasant willingness to let others have their say. Under their easygoing coaxing, relatives of famous entertainers (Mimi Benzell, Mel Tormé) discuss the star of the family, who then obliges with a brief performance...