Baubles, Bangles, & Beads Deodato recorded an instrumental in a hit LP of 1973. Argentine composer Ernesto Acher mixed the "scherzo" of Borodin's string quarted with this piece of music, under the name "Borodin, Bangles & Beads" in 1987 on his album "Juegos" Baubles, Bangles, & Beads "Baubles, Bangles & Beads" is a popular song from the 1953 musical "Kismet", credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest. Like all the music in that show, the melody was based on works by Alexander Borodin, in this case the second theme of the second movement of his "String Quartet in D." The "Kismet" setting maintains the
The Broadway Melody The Broadway Melody The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is an American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. Today the Technicolor sequence is lost; only a black and white copy survives in available versions. The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical. "The Broadway Melody" was