<P> "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 melody was inspired by the theme of Mozart's second movement of his Sinfonia Concertante . 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 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 remake by Sting was utilized in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair . </P> <P> 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 ." </P>

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