music ) sang windmills of your mind in the original thomas crown affair.
music ) sang windmills of your mind in the original thomas crown affair.
who sang windmills of your mind in the original thomas crown affair?
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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 utilizing 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. alan bergman: "michel [legrand] played us [ie. alan and marilyn bergman] seven or eight melodies. we listened to all of them and decided to wait until the next day to choose one. we three decided on the same one, a long baroque melody... the lyric we wrote was stream-of-consciousness. we felt that the song had to be a mind trip of some kind" – "the [eventual] title was [originally] a line at the end of a section... when we finished we said: "what do we call this? it's got to have a title. that line is kind of interesting.' so we restructured the song so that the line appeared again at the end. it came out of the body of the song. i think we were thinking, you know when you try to fall asleep at night and you can't turn your brain off and thoughts and memories tumble."
the windmills of your mind
the thomas crown affair (1968 film)









































the thomas crown affair is a 1968 american heist film directed and produced by norman jewison and starring steve mcqueen and faye dunaway. it was nominated for two academy awards, winning best original song for michel legrand's "the windmills of your mind". a remake was released in 1999, and a second remake was in development stages as of 2016.









































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the thomas crown affair (1968 film)