West Side Story - Original Soundtrack (OL-5670)

Artist: Various Artists / Original Soundtrack
Title: West Side Story
Catalog #: OL-5670
Label: Columbia Records
Year: 1961
Format: LP
Condition: VG+

The soundtrack to one of Hollywood's most celebrated musicals and one of the best-selling soundtrack albums in history. Leonard Bernstein's score — conducted here by Johnny Green — is a landmark of American popular music, fusing jazz, Latin rhythms, and classical technique into something wholly original and deeply moving. Maria, Tonight, Somewhere, and America are among the most enduring songs written for the screen, and the film versions delivered here by Marni Nixon, Jim Bryant, and the cast are definitive. The album won the Academy Award for Best Score. This VG+ copy plays cleanly — an essential soundtrack title and a cornerstone piece for the film music, Broadway, or classical pop collector.