Leonard Bernstein dubbed into other languages. All of them were released on DVD by Kultur Video (half of them in 2013). Around the time he was appointed music director of the New York Philharmonic, and living opposite Carnegie Hall at The Osborne, Bernstein composed the music for two shows. The first was for the operetta "Candide", which was first performed in 1956 with a libretto by Lillian Hellman based on Voltaire's novella. The second was Bernstein's collaboration with the choreographer Jerome Robbins, the writer Arthur Laurents, and the lyricist Stephen Sondheim to produce the musical "West Side Story". The first three had
Somewhere Along the Way Cole Story" (1961). Somewhere Along the Way "Somewhere Along the Way" is a popular song. The music was written by Jimmy Van Heusen under the pseudonym Kurt Adams, the lyrics by Sammy Gallop. The sheet music was published in 1952. The original recording by Nat King Cole was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 2069. It first reached the "Billboard" Best Seller chart on May 23, 1952 and lasted 22 weeks on the chart, peaking at #8. The song became the opening track to Nat's 1952 album "8 Top Pops". Cole re-recorded the song in stereo for his album