That line is kind of interesting.' So we restructured the song so that the line appeared again at the end. When we finished we said: 'What do we call this? It's got to have a title. We felt that the song had to be a mind trip of some kind" – "The title was a line at the end of a section. The lyric we wrote was stream-of-consciousness. We three decided on the same one, a long baroque melody. We listened to all of them and decided to wait until the next day to choose one. In the original 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair, the song is heard – sung by Noel Harrison – during opening credits and, during the film, in a scene in which the character Thomas Crown flies a glider at the glider airport in Salem, New Hampshire: having edited the rough cut for this scene using the Beatles track " Strawberry Fields Forever", producer/director Norman Jewison commissioned an original song be written for the glider scene which would reference the ambivalent feelings of Thomas Crown as he engages in a favorite pastime while experiencing the tension of preparing to commit a major robbery.Īlan Bergman: "Michel played us seven or eight melodies. A cover by Sting was used in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. In 2004, "Windmills of Your Mind" was ranked 57 in AFI's 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top songs in American cinema. The song (with the English lyrics) was introduced in the film The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Īnd won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The French lyrics, under the title " Les Moulins de mon cœur", were written by Eddy Marnay. " 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.
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