Welcome to my ever growing list of Motion Picture, Television Show, and Video Game Scores/Soundtracks from Original Releases, Expanded Releases, Compilation Releases, Promotional Releases and the occasional Bootleg Releases.

Most of them are CD rips done using EAC with the exception of a few Vinyl or Cassette Tape rips from Soundtracks that have yet to get an official CD issue.
If there are any Soundtracks you have that I'm after, please do contact me VIA my Email.

All Soundtracks are currently converted into 6 different Audio Formats, these are as follows:

[.ape] Monkey's Audio: version 3.99
[.flac]
Free Lossless Audio Codec: version 1.4.3
[.m4a] MPEG-4 AAC LC: version 4.0.1
[.mp3] MPEG Layer-3: version 3.100
[.ogg] OGG Vorbis: version 1.58
[.wma] Windows Media Audio 10: version 9.2

(If there is another prefarable Audio Format other than the ones listed then get in contact and let me know which it is.)

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DISCLAIMER

All Soundtracks listed are for sharing purposes only and do try to seek out and purchase these when ever possible.

I give all the credit to the people who released these Soundtracks and also the Movie, Television Show or Video Game they are taken from.
Please don't download these with the intent to SELL them. You may add a link to your own Blog or Forum, but remember to give credit to whom it concerns.

NOTE
All Download Links are regularly checked and are updated/re-uploaded accordingly.
All Soundtracks are fully tested before they are uploaded to avoid any faults from CD ripping when using EAC, which is very rare.
(Vinyl Rips and Cassette Tape rips may contain hiss or pops 'n' cracks but can't be helped unless I find a better version or a CD issue is released.)

You can also listen to songs from a number of the soundtracks available to get sample of what it is like, although the Quality is not the same as Original Full downloads, and are mono, so don't expect Digital Quality Sound.

Also Soundtracks with the next to it can mean two different reasons, one being recently added to my collection or I have added new content to that particular soundtrack.

PLEASE DON'T POST RE-UPLOAD REQUESTS IN COMMENTS UNLESS IT'S FOR A SOUNDTRACK CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE!

Here is a list of places where you can purchase these on CD's and Vinyls:

Varese Sarabande
https://www.varesesarabande.com/

Intrada
http://store.intrada.com/

La-La Land Records
https://lalalandrecords.com/

Colosseum
https://colosseum.de/?lang=en

Preseverance Records
https://perseverancerecords.com/

Film Score Montly
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/daily/index.cfm

My recommended Soundtrack Information Sites:

Discogs
https://www.discogs.com/

Soundtrack Collector
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/index.php

A number of great Apps/Software that I use:

Audacity
https://www.audacityteam.org/

dBpoweramp
www.dbpoweramp.com/

foobar2000
https://www.foobar2000.org/

Exact Audio Copy
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Monkey's Audio
https://monkeysaudio.com/

Winamp
http://www.winamp.com/

7-zip
https://www.7-zip.org/

WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

Leonard Bernstein was displeased with the orchestrations for the movie, which was the work of Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal, who had orchestrated the original Broadway production. That show had been orchestrated for roughly 30 musicians; for the movie, United Artists allowed them triple that, including six saxophone parts, eight trumpets, five pianos and five xylophones. Bernstein found it "overbearing and lacking in texture and subtlety."

Stephen Sondheim, who did not like the sequence of the songs in the Broadway version, had the song "Gee, Officer Krupke" being sung before the rumble in place of the song "Cool" which is sung instead after the rumble; the song "I Feel Pretty" is also sung before the rumble instead of after. In addition, the song "America" was sung in-between the two love songs "Maria" and "Tonight", instead of having the two love songs being sung consecutively. The "Somewhere" ballet was omitted, because it slowed down the pace of the film, and was sung instead by Tony and Maria. Reprises of the lyrics were omitted as well, especially in the songs "One Hand, One Heart" and "A Boy Like That". Some lyrics were changed in order to avoid censorship, especially in the songs "Jet Song", "Gee, Officer Krupke", "America" and the "Tonight Quintet". Even the phrase "Womb to Tomb, Sperm to Worm" between Riff and Tony had to be replaced with "Womb to Tomb, Birth to Earth" between Riff and Tony near the beginning of the film and "One-Two-Three, One-Two-Three" between Riff and Diesel in the Quintet.

As provided in her contract, Wood prerecorded her songs and allowed the production team to decide whether to use her voice. She found the songs challenging, but was allowed to film her scenes lip-synching to her own vocals and was led to believe that these versions would be used, although music supervisors Saul Chaplin and Johnny Green had already decided to use Marni Nixon's voice. Wood's singing voice is only heard during the reprise of the song "Somewhere" when Tony dies. Though Nixon had recorded the songs in the same orchestra sessions as Wood, she had to re-record them to synch with Wood's filmed performances. Even the one song for which Wood had lip-synched to Nixon's voice, "One Hand, One Heart", had to be recorded again because Wood's lip-synching was unsatisfactory. When Marni Nixon learned that she had not signed a contract for participating in the recording and demanded a percentage of the LP record, she was told that all percentages had been allocated. Bernstein gave her 0.25% of his album royalties. This set a precedent for all future "ghost singers".

Beymer's vocals were performed by Jimmy Bryant. Tucker Smith, who played Ice, dubbed the singing voice of Riff in "Jet Song", instead of Russ Tamblyn. Tamblyn's own voice was used in "Gee, Officer Krupke" and the "Quintet". Rita Moreno was dubbed by Betty Wand in the song "A Boy Like That" because the song needed to be performed at a register that was too low for her. However, Moreno sang her own vocals in "America". Marni Nixon sang some of Moreno's parts in the "Quintet" when illness prevented Moreno from doing so. Wand was also ill on the day of final recording, and so Nixon recorded Anita's vocal line as well.

For the 50th anniversary of the film's 1961 release, a score closer to the Broadway version was created by Garth Edwin Sunderland of the Leonard Bernstein Office to be performed live at screenings of the movie with the score removed, but with the original vocals maintained. The score's New York City premiere was presented at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall, called Avery Fisher Hall at the time, built atop the original film locations, which were razed in a late 1950s urban renewal project.

The Stan Kenton Orchestra recorded Kenton's West Side Story, an entire album of Johnny Richards' jazz orchestrations based on the Bernstein scores in 1961. It was previewed at Capitol Records by the producers of the motion picture during the editing and mix down who lamented that, had they known of its existence, it would have been used as the musical foundation of the new film. The Kenton version won the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Recording by a Large Group. A still picture from the movie is the front cover of the Kenton LP. - Wikipedia


ARTIST/COMPOSER
Various Artists

LABEL
Columbia Records - 489472 2

FORMAT
CD, Album, Reissue

COUNTRY
Europe

RELEASED
© 1990

TRACK LISTING

01. Prologue
02. Jet Song
03. Something's Coming
04. Dance At The Gym: Blues/Promenade/Jump
05. Maria
06. America
07. Tonight
08. Gee, Officer Krupke!
09. I Feel Pretty
10. One Hand, One Heart
11. Quintet
12. The Rumble
13. Cool
14. A Boy Like That & I Have A Love
15. Somewhere (Finale) 

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ARTIST/COMPOSER
Various Artists

LABEL
Sony Masterworks - SK 48211

FORMAT
CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered

COUNTRY
Europe

RELEASED
© 1992

TRACK LISTING

01. Overture
02. Prologue
03. Jet Song
04. Something's Coming
05. Dance At The Gym: Blues, Promenade, Mambo, Pas De Deux, Jump
06. Maria
07. America
08. Tonight
09. Gee, Officer Krupke!
10. I Feel Pretty
11. One Hand, One Heart
12. Quintet
13. The Rumble
14. Somewhere
15. Cool
16. A Boy Like That/I Have A Love
17. Finale
18. End Credits 

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