Alison Moyet ‎- Windmills Of Your Mind

Alison Moyet ‎- Windmills Of Your Mind
(Written By: Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michael Legrand)
«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 «Les Moulins De Mon Cœur», 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 2004, «Windmills of Your Mind» was ranked 57 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs survey of top songs in American cinema. 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. As a result, it was a current UK release when «The Windmills of Your Mind» received an Academy Award nomination on 24 February 1969: Harrison's single debuted at No. 36 in the UK Top 50 dated 4 March 1969 and had risen to No. 15 - abetted by performances by Harrison on the 27 March 1969 broadcast of Top of the Pops and also on variety shows hosted by Rolf Harris and Scott Walker - when the song won the Academy Award on 14 April 1969, an endorsement which facilitated the Top Ten entry of Harrison's single on the UK chart dated 22 April 1969 with its chart peak of No. 8 effected two weeks later. «The Windmills of Your Mind» was performed on the Academy Awards ceremony broadcast of 14 April 1969 by José Feliciano. «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. Jerry Wexler, president of Atlantic Records, heard «The Windmills of Your Mind» on the soundtrack of The Thomas Crown Affair and championed having Dusty Springfield record the song for her debut Atlantic album Dusty in Memphis, overcoming the singer's strong resistance.
Lyrics:
Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!
Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving in a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!
Keys that jingle in your pocket, words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly, was it something that you said?
Lovers walking along a shore and leave their footprints in the sand
Is the sound of distant drumming just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway and the fragment of a song
Half remembered names and faces, but to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over you were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair!
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
As the images unwind, like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind!
Credits
Cello: Anthony Pleeth (tracks: 1 to 9, 11), Dave Daniels (tracks: 6, 7, 9), Martin Loveday (tracks: 6, 7, 9), Paul Kegg (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6 to 9)/Clarinet: Nicholas Bucknall (tracks: 1, 4, 11)/Double Bass: Chris Laurence (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 9)/ Drums: Ralph Salmins (tracks: 2, 3, 5 to 7, 10)/Guitar: John Parricelli (tracks: 2, 4 to 7, 10)/Piano: Anne Dudley (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 10)/Trumpet: Derek Watkins (tracks: 3, 6, 10)/Viola: Andy Parker (tracks: 6, 7, 9), Bruce White (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6 to 9), Peter Lale (tracks: 1 to 9, 11), Vicci Wardman (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6, to 9)/Violin: Boguslaw Kostecki (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6 to 9), Gordon Buchan (tracks: 6, 7, 9), John Bradbury (2) (tracks: 6, 7, 9), Julian Leaper (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6 to 9), Maciej Rakowski (tracks: 6, 7, 9), Patrick Kiernan (tracks: 6, 7, 9), Paul Willey (tracks: 6, 7, 9), Rita Manning (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6 to 9), Roger Garland (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 9, 11), Rolf Wilson (tracks: 1 to 8), Simon Baggs (tracks: 6, 7, 9)/Violin [Leader]: Rolf Wilson (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6 to 9)
Label: Sanctuary Records – SANCD270/ CD Album/Europe/Sep 2004/Pop/ Ballad, Vocal
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