Artist: Shark Girls
Author: Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim
Label: Columbia
Year: 1957
Featuring Chita Rivera, Reri Grist & Marilyn Cooper; in Broadway musical West Side Story, subsequently on the Original Cast Album.
Covers:
Betty Wand & George Chakiris & Shark Girls [on the movie soundtrack with severe lyrical changes, Betty Wand ad-libbing for Rita Moreno]
Rory Storm & The Hurricanes [without Ringo]
Trini Lopez [B-side of his world hit If I Had A Hammer]
Danyel Gérard [French version]
Herb Alpert [as A-Me-Ri-Ca]
Nice [incorporating elements of Dvorák's New World Symphony and Bach's French Suite]
Kiri Te Kanawa & Jose Carreras [in new studio cast West Side Story]
Shark Girls [from the West Side Story remake cast, with Leonard Bernstein conducting]
Metallica [intro Don't Tread On Me]
Hans Versnel [as Wij Gaan Naar Amerika]
Apollo 440 [as Astral America, sampling the Nice version, hit UK]
Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez and company [in Spielberg's West Side Story]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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