The Windmills of Your Mind
Context
Music by Michel Legrand to lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, written for the film "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), in which Noel Harrison sings it over the opening credits and in the glider scene. Alan Bergman describes a long melody with a baroque feel. Academy Award for best original song in April 1969, it became "Les Moulins de mon cœur" in French (Eddy Marnay, first performed by Marcel Amont in 1968); Dusty Springfield covered it in 1969.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to French jazz, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of French jazz: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Traditional revival, Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz, Jazz in France (interwar years), Jazz of the Maghreb and the Near East.