The Sound of Music (original Broadway cast recording)

The Sound of Music: Original Broadway Cast
Cast recording by the original Broadway cast
Released	1959 (1959)
Recorded	1959 (1959)
Genre	Show tunes
Label	Columbia Masterworks

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Billboard	positive [1]
AllMusic	[2]
AllMusic	no rating (1987 CD) [3]

The Sound of Music, subtitled Original Broadway Cast, is the album containing the original studio cast recording of the 1959 musical The Sound of Music . ^[4] The album was released in the same year by Columbia.

Billboard reviewed the album in its issue from December 7, 1959, writing: "Mary Martin is charming and sparkling, and she is warmly assisted by the other principals. The show boasts a flock of lovely and lyrical tunes. Flattering reviews the show has received will aid in interest for the album" and classifying it as "top potential". ^[1]

The album finished 1960 as the best-selling album of the year in the United States according to Billboard, ^[5] 1961 as the fourth-best-selling, ^[6] and 1962 as the fifth-best-selling. ^[7]

Track listing

LP (Columbia Masterworks KOL 5450)

Side 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"1.1. Preludium" "1.2. The Sound of Music"
2.	"Maria"
3.	"My Favorite Things"
4.	"Do-Re-Mi"
5.	"Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
6.	"The Lonely Goatherd"
7.	"How Can Love Survive"

Side 2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Sound of Music" (Reprise)
2.	"Laendler"
3.	"So Long, Farewell"
4.	"Climb Ev'ry Mountain"
5.	"No Way to Stop It"
6.	"An Ordinary Couple"
7.	"Processional"
8.	"Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
9.	"Edelweiss"
10.	"Climb Ev'ry Mountain"

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1960) Peak position US Billboard Top LPs – Mono Action Albums [8] 1 US Billboard Top LPs – Stereo Action Albums [8] 1

Year-end charts Chart (1960) Position US Billboard 200 [5] 1 Chart (1961) Position US Billboard 200 [6] 4 Chart (1962) Position US Billboard 200 [7] 5

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [9]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

1. "Reviews of This Week's LPs". Billboard . 7 December 1959.
2. "The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast]". AllMusic.
3. "The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast]". AllMusic.
4. "The Sound of Music – 50th Anniversary Edition". The Official Masterworks Broadway Site. Retrieved 2025-04-19.
5. "Billboard.com - Year End Charts - Year-end Albums - The Billboard 200 (1960)". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2025.
6. "Billboard.com - Year End Charts - Year-end Albums - The Billboard 200 (1961)". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2025.
7. "Billboard.com - Year End Charts - Year-end Albums - The Billboard 200 (1962)". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2025.
8. "Billboard". 8 February 1960.
9. "American album certifications – Soundtrack – Sound of Music". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved April 18, 2025.