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West Side Story, along with Breakfast at Tiffanys soundtrack in the Top 10.

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West Side Story is the soundtrack to the 1961 film West Side Story. Released in 1961, the soundtrack spent 54 weeks at #1 on Billboard's album charts, giving it the longest run at #1 of any album in history.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is a studio album by American rhythm and blues and soul musician Ray Charles, released April 1962 on ABC-Paramount Records, in both mono and stereo format.

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The First Family is a comedy album recorded on October 22, 1962, as a good-natured parody of President John F. Kennedy, both as Commander-in-Chief and as a member of a large, well-known political family.

Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack from the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn.

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Pot Luck with Elvis is the fifteenth album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2523, in June of 1962. It peaked at #4 on the Top Pop Albums chart.

Bob Dylan is the eponymous debut album from the highly influential American artist of the same name. It was released on March 19, 1962 on Columbia Records, when Dylan was 20 years old. It features two original compositions, the rest being old folk standards.

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Out Of The Shadows is a 1962 rock album by British group The Shadows. It was their second album.

My Son, the Folk Singer is a monophonic album by Allan Sherman, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1962. On the album sleeve, the title appears directly below the words "Allan Sherman's mother presents."

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Original Cast - West Side Story

- In 1961, it won a Grammy award for "Best Sound Track Album – Original Cast". In the United States, it was the best-selling album in of the 1960s, certifying three times platinum by the RIAA on November 21, 1986.

The album Money Jungle is a 1962 jazz trio session by Duke Ellington with drummer Max Roach and bassist Charles Mingus.

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