West Side Story - Original Soundtrack Recording [2CD] (New CD)

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West Side Story became the smash hit stage musical of 1957 through a combination of Leonard Bernstein's dramatic score with Jerome Robbins' exuberant dance routines. The musical also introduced a young Stephen Sondheim as lyricist. The ten-Oscar haul West Side Story garnered, including Best Picture and Best Original Score, was a record for any movie musical. As for this album, it clocked up 53 weeks on top of the Billboard Stereo Albums chart and 12 on the Mono, making it the album with the most weeks at Number 1 of the rock (post 1955) era. Featured here are the Original Movie and Broadway soundtracks.