Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Music From the Original Soundtrack of the Paramount Picture)

The Academy Award-nominated original score and songs were composed by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, and musical direction was by Walter Scharf. The soundtrack was first released by Paramount Records in 1971. On October 8, 1996, Hip-O Records (in conjunction with MCA Records, which by then owned the Paramount catalog), released the soundtrack on CD as a “25th Anniversary Edition”. In 2016, UMe and Geffen Records released a 45th Anniversary Edition LP.