Like his two previous albums, No One Ever Tells You was produced and conducted by film and television composer Joel McNeely.

[5] On what attracted him about making this kind of album, MacFarlane stated, "There was a time during the mid-1950s and early 1960s when popular song was stretching its creative boundaries, and experimenting with more ambitious structures and tones.

"[9] JazzTimes Christopher Loudon praised the album by saying "Backed by a wall of brass and a sea of strings, MacFarlane again succeeds admirably—as does McNeely, whose charts estimably echo Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins.

While he lacks Sinatra’s raw emotional wallop and more closely mirrors the mellow warmth of Dean Martin, he is no poseur.

It's the kind of album where the orchestra wraps you up and indulges your sorrow while the nuances in his voice break your heart completely.