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 Happy Time (musical) home searching for family and love ("Running"), and understands that he must set out alone again. The Original Broadway cast recording was released by RCA Victor Broadway in January 1968 and the CD was released on March 10, 1992. The Happy Time (musical) The Happy Time is a musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by N. Richard Nash loosely based on a 1950 hit Broadway play, "The Happy Time" by Samuel A. Taylor, which was in turn based on stories by Robert Fontaine. The story had also been made into a 1952 film