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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Angel Records
Salesrank: 326873
Released: February 16, 1993 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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No Strings (1962 Original Broadway Cast) Track Listing:
1. Sweetest Sounds - Diahann Carroll, Richard Kiley
2. How Sad - Richard Kiley
3. Loads of Love - Diahann Carroll
4. Man Who Has Everything - Mitchell Gregg
5. Be My Host - Don Chastain, Al Epstein, Al Epstein, Ann Hodges, Richard Kiley,
6. La-La-La - Noelle Adam, Al Epstein
7. You Don't Tell Me - Diahann Carroll
8. Love Makes the World Go
9. Nobody Told Me - Diahann Carroll, Richard Kiley
10. Look No Further - Diahann Carroll, Richard Kiley
11. Maine - Diahann Carroll, Richard Kiley
12. Orthodox Fool - Diahann Carroll
13. Eager Beaver - Don Chastain,
14. No Strings - Diahann Carroll, Richard Kiley
15. Finale: The Sweetest Sounds (Reprise) - Diahann Carroll, Richard Kiley
No Strings (1962 Original Broadway Cast) Reviews:
The sublime Diahann Carroll is Matched by Richard Kiley 
2000-12-29 - As a very young guy, I saw the touring company of "No Strings" which starred Howard Keel and Barbara McNair. I had seen Diahann Carroll on the Ed Sullivan Show doing a number from the show and she was, of course, superb.
I loved the show and the songs. Richard Kiley had one of the great voices of Broadway and Diahann Carroll actually "lives" her lyric in everything she sings. Personally, I think the show's songs are "typical Broadway". That doesn't bother me, I love "typical Broadway".
Carroll's reading of "You Don't Tell Me" is worth it all. I love "Look No Further" and "No Strings". Richard Rogers' score was wonderful and the production was different and interesting to watch.
I have the old lp, but just ordered the CD along with another favorite, but "lost" show, "Flora, The Red Menace" starring the incredibly young, Liza Minelli and surprisingly engaging singer, Bob Dishy. Great songs.
Later, I had the pleasure of seeing Diahann Carroll in person at the Persian Room (Plaza Hotel) in New York. As expected, she was a dynamite performer and garnered deserved standing ovations. Plus, she was one of the most beautiful creatures God ever created. No wonder Richard Rogers loved her so!
Bright and fresh adult musical - Rodgers only solo work
1998-07-30 - Other than five songs donated to the STATE FAIR film remake, this is the only score that is entirely Richard Rodgers' - music and lyrics. It's a return to the freeweeling style he shared with Larry Hart. Bright, breezy, brassy. The orchestrations (without string instruments ala the title)are unusual and intriguing. Diahann Carroll shines in her Tony Award-winning role. The rest of the cast fares less well and about a third of the songs "don't work". The rest however is sublime. Very worthy of one's attention.
