The Windmills of Your Mind

"The Windmills of Your Mind" ("Les moulins de mon cœur") is a song performed by Noel Harrison, with music by Michel Legrand and English lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, from the 1968 film, The Thomas Crown Affair. The French lyrics were penned by Eddy Marnay.

Noel Harrison took the song to #8 in the UK Singles Chart, and it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1968. Remarkably, Harrison's father, the British actor Rex Harrison, had performed the previous year's Oscar winning "Talk to the Animals".

The opening two melodic sentences were borrowed from Mozart's second movement from his Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra.

Dusty Springfield's version of the song from her album Dusty in Memphis is also well known; this version reached #31 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart in 1969. This recording also appeared on the soundtrack to Breakfast on Pluto (2006).

Other artists who have covered the song include Alison Moyet, The Colourfield, Swing Out Sister, Edward Woodward, Parenthetical Girls, Esthero, Anne Clark, Sting (whose version was used in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair) and Sharleen Spiteri on her The Movie Songbook album.

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