No Strings (album)

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No Strings
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Studio album by
Sheena Easton
Released13 August 1993
Recorded1993
Genre
Length46:00
Label MCA
Producer Patrice Rushen
Sheena Easton chronology
What Comes Naturally
(1991)		No Strings
(1993)		 My Cherie
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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No Strings is the eleventh studio album by Scottish-born singer Sheena Easton released in 1993 by MCA Records. The album was a departure from the pop and R&B style of her earlier recordings with jazz-tinged production arrangements by Patrice Rushen.

Contents

The disc was recorded live in the studio, as Easton wanted to record the music in a similar fashion to Frank Sinatra's Capitol Records sessions of the 1960s. The song "The Nearness of You" was featured on the soundtrack of Indecent Proposal . Easton appears in a cameo role singing the song with Herbie Hancock playing the piano during a pivotal moment in the film, and the song was released as a promo single in some European markets.

In 2007 No Strings was released on iTunes' available for download. The disc was reissued by Universal Distribution on 26 July 2013.

Track listing

  1. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:18
  2. "Medley: I'm in the Mood for Love / Moody's Mood for Love" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields / Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh, James Moody) – 4:14
  3. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 3:17
  4. "How Deep Is the Ocean" (Irving Berlin) – 3:40
  5. "If You Go Away" (Ne me quitte pas) (Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen) – 5:52
  6. "Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Robert Sour) – 5:51
  7. "Medley: Little Girl Blue / When Sunny Gets Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers / Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 6:10
  8. "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else" (Gus Kahn, Isham Jones) – 3:25
  9. "The Man That Got Away" (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin) – 4:23
  10. "I Will Say Goodbye" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 2:37
  11. "Never Will I Marry" (Frank Loesser) – 3:25

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Charts

Chart performance for No Strings
Chart (1993)Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [3] 80

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References

  1. ↑ Woodard, Josef (13 August 1993). "No Strings". Entertainment Weekly .
  2. ↑ Gettelman, Parry (17 September 1993). "Sheena Easton". Orlando Sentinel .
  3. ↑ Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN   4-87131-077-9.
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