The Windmills of Your Mind

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Michel Legrand in Haymarket (2008)

The Windmills of Your Mind is a pop song from 1968, the music of which was written by the French composer Michel Legrand and whose English text was written by the Americans Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman . The French text, entitled Les moulins de mon cœur , was written by Eddy Marnay .

history

The song with the English lyrics was used as the theme for the 1968 film Thomas Crown Unbelievable . The two melodic movements of the opening come from the 2nd movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola in E flat major , KV 364 from 1779.

In the original 1968 produced film, the song was sung by Noel Harrison , who brought the song to number eight in the UK singles charts . It won the 1968 Oscar for Best Original Song . A version of Sting was used in the 1999 remake The Thomas Crown Affair .

Dusty Springfield's version of the song from her 1969 album Dusty in Memphis reached number 31 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart in 1969 and is a number on the soundtrack for Breakfast on Pluto (2006).

Petula Clark's recording of the song can be heard in the film Killing Them Softly .

The Windmills of Your Mind has been interpreted many times, including by All Angels , Tina Arena , Lill-Babs , Pedro Biker , John Davidson , Neil Diamond , Val Doonican , Esthero, Connie Evingson , José Feliciano , Earl Grant , Terry Hall, Kiri Te Kanawa , Michel Legrand , Barbara Lewis , Arthur Lyman , Sally Ann Marsh, Maureen McGovern , Meck , Farhad Mehrad , Eva Mendes , Alison Moyet , Elaine Paige , Parenthetical Girls , Dianne Reeves , Rita Reys , Jimmie Rodgers, The Sandpipers , Sharleen Spiteri , Barbra Streisand , Swing Out Sister , Take 6 , Grady Tate , Carmen Lundy , Billy Paul , Vanilla Fudge , Vassilikos, Helena Vondráčková , Anne Clark and Edward Woodward . Helena Vondráčková interpreted the song in Czech with the title Můžeš Zůstat, Můžeš Jít . In 2015, a version of the song sung by Randy Crawford appeared on David Sanborn's album Time And The River .

The French variant Les Moulins de mon cœur (text by Eddy Marnay ) was written by Frida Boccara , Grégory Lemarchal , Natalie Dessay , Didier Barbelivien , Amaury Vassili , Dany Brillant , Claude François , Noëlle Cordier , Patricia Kaas , Michel Legrand , Caterina Valente , among others , Jessye Norman and Julia Migenes interpreted.

There are German-language versions of Udo Lindenberg as Unterm Säufermond , as Wie Mühlen rot'n im Wind by Vicky Leandros (1969), Katja Ebstein (1970) and Queen Bee (2004). The song was also interpreted in German by various artists in the GDR; a new version in the broadcast by Klaus Munro comes from Uschi Brüning on her LP "So wie ich" from 2015.

Instrumental versions of The Windmills of Your Mind were recorded by Henry Mancini and James Last .

In the first episode of the second season of the Muppet Show , produced from May 23-25, 1977, it was also performed.

The song was adapted into the Arabic version La Bidayi Wala Nihayi , orchestrated and conducted by Oussama Rahbani, sung by Hiba Tawaji .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b David Roberts: British Hit Singles & Albums , 19th. Edition, Guinness World Records Limited, London 2006, ISBN 1-904994-10-5 , p. 135.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits , 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), p. 592.
  3. ↑ as "Vinden I Min Själ", (Swedish)

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