Customer Reviews

You Sing The Hits of West Side Story (karaoke)

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This is the best Broadway karaoke album I have in my collection. It has the entire musical score faithfully created. If you do theater to recorded tracks, this has everything you need for a production of West Side Story. Having been disappointed with many of the Broadway tracks avaiable because of either being incomplete or poor arrangements, I was thrilled with this CD. One of the best of the genre.

This is a good, albeit quiet recording. The volume level seems quite low. I see there's a new version of West Side Story coming out on a accompaniment cd that includes some of the overlooked dance music in this version.

I bought this CD for a single song, "America." A group of Japanese ESL students saw the Broadway production and were inspired to perform that number. But it was unusable. The tempo was much slower than the original, and the orchestration was spare and bland, lacking the brass and percussion that really makes the piece. It seemed like an elevator-music version. It may be suitable for drunken, middle-aged party-ers, but not for young people. I would have returned it, but thought the other songs might come in handy later.

I ordered this for my 18 year old son. We have quite a library of karaoke music, and we've heard a lot of low- to mid-quality recordings. I was at work when this one arrived, and I asked my son to listen to it and tell me what he thought. He had a one-word review..."WOW!". My son has performed the role of Tony, so he knows the music very well. In addition, he is very hard to please, so getting a "WOW" from him says a lot. After listening to the recording, I agree wholeheartedly.