# No Strings (album)

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | link |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| Orlando Sentinel | |
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.
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

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

## Personnel
### Musicians

* Sheena Easton – lead vocals
* Patrice Rushen – acoustic piano
* Phil Upchurch – guitar (2, 6, 8)
* Paul Jackson, Jr. – guitar (5, 10)
* Reggie Hamilton – bass (1)
* Ken Wild – bass (2-11)
* John Guerin – drums (1)
* Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums (2-11)
* Valerie King – flute (2, 5, 6, 8, 10)
* Marni Johnson – French Horn (2, 5, 6, 8, 10)
* Richard Todd – French Horn (2, 6, 8)
* Fred Jackson, Jr. – alto and soprano saxophones (2, 5, 8, 10), tenor saxophone (6)
* Bob Sheppard – alto and tenor saxophones (4, 7), tenor sax solo (11)
* Larry Williams – tenor saxophone (6, 8), clarinet (6, 8)
* Lew McCreary – trombone (2, 6, 8), bass trombone (5, 10)
* Reggie Young – trombone (2, 6, 8)
* Rick Baptist – trumpet (2, 6, 8), flugelhorn (2, 6, 8)
* Raymond Lee Brown – trumpet (2, 4, 6, 7, 8), flugelhorn (2, 5, 6, 8), cornet (4, 7)

### Production

* Producer and arranged by Patrice Rushen
* Recorded and mixed by Rick Winquest
* Assistant engineers – Eric Cowden and Dann Thompson
* Recorded and mixed at Group IV Recording (Los Angeles, California)
* Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, California)
* Music copyist – Booker White
* Art direction – Vartan
* Design – Margo Chase and John Coulter
* Photography – Alberto Tolot
* Hair – Barron Matalon
* Stylist – Fleur Theimeyer
* Make-up – Francesca Tolot

## Charts

Chart performance for No Strings :
| Chart (1993) | Peak position |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon) | 80 |