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The Windmills of Your Mind: Noel Harrison

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  2. Lori Kossowsky's avatar Lori Kossowsky Says:

    January 23, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    I’ve alway liked this song. To Kill A Mockingbird is still one of my favorite books, and they made an excellent movie. Thanks Kat.

  3. katry's avatar katry Says:

    January 24, 2011 at 12:28 am

    Buzz,
    It’s was just To Kill a Mockingbird somehow became apart of the conversation.

    Windmills even one an Emmy for bets film movie.

  4. J.M. Heinrichs's avatar J.M. Heinrichs Says:

    January 24, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    He sings it all wrong; it should be “Windmills in Your Mind”.

    Cheers

  5. katry's avatar katry Says:

    January 24, 2011 at 10:04 pm

    Buzz,
    The conversation got all interspersed. Yes, that’s exactly the movie

  6. sblake's avatar sblake Says:

    January 25, 2011 at 2:30 am

    ok everyone.It was written by Michel Legrand and Alan Bergman for the soundtrack of “Thomas Crown Affair” and was sung by Noel Harrison, who is the son of the actor Rex Harrison.It won an Academy Award in 1969 for best song and was sung on the Awards by Jose Feliciano because Harrison’s record company would not allow him to sing it on the broadcast
    The opening slide down the chromatic scale is based on the opening movement of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola.
    and just a piece of trivia – (Harrison’s father, the British actor Rex Harrison, had performed the previous year’s Oscar-winning song “Talk to the Animals”)

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      January 25, 2011 at 11:45 am

      sblake,
      This one too has an African connection. In July of 1971 I ws in Accra getting ready to close my Peace Corps service. A bunch of friends were there for the same reason so we went out together every night. The Thomas Crown Affair was at one of the theaters and we went to see it. I didn’t remember the song, but I sure as heck recognized the scenery as it was shot in and around Boston. I was going home and there it was, a preview.

      Thanks, as always, for the great background!

  7. Ralph Zwier's avatar Ralph Zwier Says:

    January 25, 2011 at 6:50 am

    Thank you, thank you for posting this. I had forgotten the name Noel Harrison. My favourite song of his was “The young girl”, which I just now listened to for the first time in 40 years.


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