West Side Story CD

All tracks have been digitally remastered. This is part of Columbia Records' Columbia Broadway Masterworks series. Record buyers who had not seen the show that opened on Broadway in 1957 could hardly believe their ears when this dramatic early stereo album reached the stores soon afterwards. Classical composer Leonard Bernstein and newcomer Stephen Sondheim's spellbinding score combined exquisite ballads such as &quotMaria&quot and &quotTonight&quot with streetwise numbers such as &quotGee officer Krupke&quot and the exhilarating &quotAmerica.&quot Carol Lawrence Larry Kert and Chita Rivera led the superb young cast and the album stayed for 120 weeks in the US chart but faired poorly on its UK release. In 1991 it was inducted into the NARAS Hall of Fame.

Tracklisting

1. Prologue -- Orchestra
2. Jet Song -- Mickey Calin, Ensemble
3. Something's Coming -- Larry Kert
4. The Dance at the Gym -- Ensemble
5. Maria -- Larry Kert
6. Balcony Scene -- Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert
7. America -- Chita Rivera, Marilyn Cooper, Ensemble
8. Cool -- Mickey Calin, Ensemble
9. One Hand, One Heart -- Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence
10. Quintet (Tonight) -- Chita Rivera, Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Ken Le Roy, Mickey Calin, Ensemble
11. The Rumble -- Orchestra
12. I Feel Pretty -- Carol Lawrence, Carmen Gutierrez, Marilyn Cooper, Elizabeth Taylor
13. Somewhere -- Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Reri Grist, Ensemble
14. Gee Officer Krupke -- Eddie Roll, Grover Dale, Tony Mordente, David Winters, Hank Brunjes, Ensemble
15. A Boy Like That -- Chita Rivera, Carol Lawrence
I Have a Love
16. Finale -- Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Ensemble