who sings the original windmills of your mind
Noel Harrison
title: The Windmills of Your Mind text: The Windmills of Your Mind "The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song with music by French composer Michel Legrand and English lyrics written by Americans Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The French lyrics, under the title "", were written by Eddy Marnay. The song (with the English lyrics) was introduced in the film "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in the same year. In 2004, "Windmills of Your Mind" was ranked 57 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top songs in American cinema. A cover by Sting was used in the title: Noel Harrison text: in a third-season episode titled "The Galatea Affair". "A Young Girl" was included as one of the tracks on Harrison's debut album, "Noel Harrison", in 1966. Two years later, he recorded "The Windmills of Your Mind", the theme tune from the film "The Thomas Crown Affair", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1968, and was also a Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart. Despite the song winning the 1968 Oscar for best original song, Harrison did not sing it at the ceremony. Instead his place was taken by Jose Feliciano. The change was made title: The Windmills of Your Mind text: feat matched by Springfield's third subsequent single "Brand New Me" which therefore ties with "The Windmills" as having afforded Springfield her best-ever solo showing on a "Billboard" chart. "The Windmills of Your Mind" was recorded by José Feliciano for his 1969 album "10 to 23", and Feliciano performed the song on the Academy Awards ceremony broadcast of 14 April 1969; the song's original singer Noel Harrison would later opine of Feliciano's performance: "A wonderful musician and compelling singer, he made much too free with the beautiful melody in my humble opinion. But that's jazz." It was Feliciano's version of "The title: The Windmills of Your Mind text: renderings of famous French-language songs. "The Windmills of Your Mind" has also been rendered as: The Windmills of Your Mind "The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song with music by French composer Michel Legrand and English lyrics written by Americans Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The French lyrics, under the title "", were written by Eddy Marnay. The song (with the English lyrics) was introduced in the film "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in the same year. In 2004, "Windmills of Your Mind" was ranked 57 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs title: The Windmills of Your Mind text: Windmills" which became a hit in the Netherlands, reaching #11 on the Dutch chart in November 1969. and Nr. 4 in the Turkish hit parade in April 1970. The lyrics for the French-language rendering of "The Windmills of Your Mind" were written by Eddy Marnay and this version, entitled "Les Moulins de mon cœur", was first recorded in 1968 by Marcel Amont who was resultantly afforded a minor French chart hit (peak #49). "Les Moulins de mon coeur" has subsequently been recorded by: In 1970 Helena Vondráčková, prior to recording "The Windmills of Your Mind" with its original English lyrics