Composer: Leonard Bernstein.

Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim.

Personnel include: George Chakiris, Marni Nixon, Russ Tamblyn, Betty Wand.

Electrifying on stage and screen - and just as exciting in superb stereo on this sensational album featuring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn and George Chakiris. The singing voices of the first three of those artists were dubbed at various times by Marni Nixon, Jim Bryant and Betty Wand, respectively, and they more than lived up to the challenge of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's dynamic and breathtaking score. The figures are staggering - USA: 144 weeks in the Top 40, 54 of them at number 1; UK: 175 weeks in the Top 20, including 13 at number 1. Plus a US Grammy for best soundtrack album.

Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.28) - Ranked #4 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...Innocent visions of gangland, articulated in wistful songs..."