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'''The Windmills of Your Mind''' is a song with {{about|the song|the album by Paul Motian|The Windmills of Your Mind (album)|the album by Bud Shank|Windmills of Your Mind (album)}}
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"'''The Windmills of Your Mind'''" is a song with music by French composer ] and English lyrics written by American lyricists ]. French lyrics, under the title "{{Lang|fr|Les Moulins de mon cœur}}", were written by ]. It was originally recorded by the English actor ] in 1968.


The song (with the English lyrics) was introduced in the film '']'' (1968),<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book
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and won the ].<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums" /> In 2004, "Windmills of Your Mind" was ranked 57 in ] survey of top songs in American cinema. A ] by ] was used in the ].


==Composition/original recording==
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In the original 1968 film '']'', the song is heard – sung by ] – during opening credits; and, during the film, in a scene in which the character Thomas Crown flies a ] at the glider airport in ].
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Producer/director ] had edited the ] for the glider scene using ] track "]", but then commissioned an original song 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.
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Alan Bergman said of the creation of the song: "Michel played us 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 title was 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."<ref name="Marrying The Image">{{cite web| url=http://www.ascap.com/playback/2007/summer/features/bergman.aspx| title=Marrying The Image: Alan and Marilyn Bergman| publisher=ASCAP.com| access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref>

Noel Harrison recorded the song after ] passed on it. According to Harrison: "It was recorded live on a huge sound stage at ], with the accompanying film clips running on a giant screen and Michel blowing kisses to the orchestra."<ref name="The Windmills of Your Mind">{{cite web| url=http://www.thewindmillsofyourmind.com/thewindmillsofyourmind| title=The Windmills of Your Mind| publisher=TheWindmillsOfYourMind.com| access-date=10 February 2016}}</ref>

Harrison took issue with the couplet "Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own / Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone", singing the word "shone" British-style with a short vowel sound making the rhyme with "own" imperfect. Marilyn Bergman: "We said 'No, it's shone .' And he said 'No, it's our language!' And we said: 'Yes, but it's our song.' So reluctantly, he sang shone and our rhyme was intact."<ref name="Marrying The Image" /> However, in the finally released version Harrison sings "shone" with a short vowel.

Harrison's version had a single released in the US in July 1968 soon after the premiere of the film and similarly was released in the British Isles at the time of the film's 7 February 1969 premiere in the UK and Ireland.

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 of 4 March 1969 and had risen to No. 15—abetted by performances by Harrison on the 27 March 1969 broadcast of '']'' and also on variety shows hosted by ] and ]—when the song won the Academy Award on 14 April 1969. The award facilitated the Top Ten entry of Harrison's single on the UK chart of 22 April 1969 with its chart peak of No. 8 effected two weeks later.<ref>, officialcharts.com</ref>

"The Windmills of Your Mind" was performed on the Academy Awards ceremony broadcast of 14 April 1969 by ]; Noel Harrison would recall: "I was invited to sing it at the Academy Awards... but I was making a movie in England at the time, and the producer (who didn't like me) refused to let me go." The film which caused the scheduling conflict has been identified as '']'' directed by ].<ref name="The Windmills of Your Mind"/>

==Dusty Springfield version==
]
], president of ], heard "The Windmills of Your Mind" on the soundtrack of ''The Thomas Crown Affair'' and championed having ] record the song for her debut Atlantic album '']'', overcoming the singer's strong resistance; Springfield's friend and subsequent manager ] would allege: "Dusty always said she hated it because she couldn't identify with the words."<ref>{{cite book| first1=Vicki| first2=Penny| last1=Wickham| last2=Valentine| title=Dancing with Demons: the authorized biography| year=2000| publisher=Hodder & Stoughton| location=London| isbn=978-0312282028| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/dancingwithdemon00vale}}</ref> During the first sessions for the track at ] in Memphis, problems with getting the proper chords down arose, and at Springfield's suggestion the song was arranged so the first three verses were sung in a slower tempo than the original film version.

In April 1969, the third ] release from ''Dusty in Memphis'' was announced as "I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore" with "The Windmills of Your Mind" as the ]. However Wexler was prepared to promote "Windmills" as the A-side if it won the Oscar for Best Song, reportedly instructing mailroom clerks at Atlantic Records' New York City headquarters to listen to the Academy Awards broadcast the night of 14 April 1969. Hearing "The Windmills" announced as the Best Song winner was the clerks' cue to drive a station wagon loaded with 2500 copies of a double-sided promo single of Springfield's version – identified on the label as "Academy Award Winner" – to the ], where the copies of the single were mailed out to key radio stations across the US.<ref>{{cite book| first=Paul| last=Howes| title=The Complete Dusty Springfield| year=2012| publisher=Titan Books| location=London| isbn= 9780857681409}}</ref> Although its ] debut was not effected until the 5 May 1969 issue of '']'' and then with a No. 99 ranking, Springfield's "The Windmills" made a rapid ascent to the ] being ranked at No. 40 on the Hot 100 of 24 May 1969 only to stall over the subsequent three weeks peaking at No. 31 on the Hot 100 of 14 June 1969 with only one additional week of Hot 100 tenure, being ranked at No. 45 on the 21 June 1969 chart. On the '']'' chart, the song rose as high as No. 22.<ref></ref>

Local hit parades indicate that Springfield's "Windmills" had Top Ten impact in only select larger markets: Boston, Southern California, and Miami. The track did reach No. 3 on the ] in ''Billboard'', a feat matched by Springfield's third subsequent single "]" which therefore ties with "The Windmills" as having afforded Springfield her best-ever solo showing on a ''Billboard'' chart.<ref>] (2004). ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), p. 592.</ref>

==José Feliciano version==
"The Windmills of Your Mind" was recorded by ] for his 1969 album ''10 to 23'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/10-to-23-mw0000418987|title=10 to 23 – José Feliciano – Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref> and Feliciano performed the song on the Academy Awards ceremony broadcast of 14 April 1969. The song's original singer, Noel Harrison, would later opine of Feliciano's performance: "A wonderful musician and compelling singer, he made much too free with the beautiful melody in my humble opinion. But that's jazz."<ref name="The Windmills of Your Mind" /> It was Feliciano's version of "The Windmills" which became a hit in the Netherlands, reaching No. 11 on the Dutch chart in November 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Jos%25E9+Feliciano&titel=The+Windmills+Of+Your+Mind&cat=s|title=Dutch Charts|first=Steffen|last=Hung|website=dutchcharts.nl|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref> and No. 4 in the Turkish hit parade in April 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fantasticfeliciano.blogspot.it/p/world-music-charts.html|title=World Music Charts|website=fantasticfeliciano.blogspot.it|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref>

==Chart history==
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|Australia (])
| style="text-align:center;"|40
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|Canada ''RPM'' Adult Contemporary<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5922&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5922.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5922|title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |date=1969-06-30 |accessdate=2021-03-19}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|6
|-
|Canada '']'' Top Singles<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5935&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5935.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5935|title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |date=1969-06-09 |accessdate=2021-03-19}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|21
|-
|Philippines
|align="center"|34
|-
|US '']'' ]<ref>''Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990'' - {{ISBN|0-89820-089-X}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|31
|-
|US ''Billboard'' ]
| style="text-align:center;"|3
|-
|US ] Top 100<ref></ref>
|align="center"|22
|-
|}
;Noel Harrison
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Chart (1969)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|New Zealand ('']'')<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=search%20listener&qsongid=1823#n_view_location |title=Flavour of New Zealand, 27 June 1969 |access-date=19 March 2021 |archive-date=4 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504204919/http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=search%20listener&qsongid=1823#n_view_location |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|17
|-
|South Africa (])<ref>{{cite web|title=SA Charts 1965–March 1989|url=http://www.rock.co.za/files/springbok_top_20_(H).html|accessdate=19 March 2021}}</ref>
|align="center"|5
|-
|] (])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artists/|title=The Official Charts Company - Noel Harrison|publisher=]|access-date=1 May 2011}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|8
|-
|}
;Jimmie Rodgers
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Chart (1969)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|US '']'' ]<ref>Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|123
|-
|}
;Jose Feliciano
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Chart (1969)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|Netherlands
| style="text-align:center;"|11
|-
|Turkey ''Hit Parade''
| style="text-align:center;"|4
|-
|}

==Other versions==

===In English===

Another version by British band the Colourfield from their 1985 album Virgins and Philistines

* ] Version #1: on his album ''Love Theme from 'Romeo & Juliet''' (1969)<ref>''Billboard'' vol 81 #36 (6 September 1969) p. 20</ref><br>Version #2: with ] on Thielemans' album ''Chez Toots'' (1998)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/chez-toots-mw0000036463|title=''Chez Toots'' – Toots Thielemans – Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref><br>''Chez Toots'' track listing reads "Les Moulins de mon cœur (The Windmills of Your Mind)" Mathis sings only the English-language lyrics.
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] recorded "The Windmills of Your Mind" in 1969 . It was released in Europe on her album "My Beautiful Songs" . For South Africa the album title was "Reflections" .

* ] recorded for album ''Comme d’Habitude'' (2011)
* ] recorded for commercial (starring Mendes) for ] perfume<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gala.de/beauty-fashion/beauty/eva-mendes-jeder-braucht-einen-schutzengel_27104.html|title=Eva Mendes: "Jeder braucht einen Schutzengel"|date=22 September 2011|website=Gala.de|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref>

===In French: "Les Moulins de mon cœur"===
The lyrics for the French-language rendering of the song were written by ] and this version, entitled "''Les Moulins de mon cœur''" ("The Windmills of My Heart"), was first recorded in 1968 by ] who had a minor French chart hit, peaking at no. 49.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://infodisc.fr/Bilan_A.php |title=InfoDisc : Tout les Titres par Artiste |access-date=2014-10-02 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114071613/http://www.infodisc.fr/Bilan_A.php |archive-date=2016-01-14 }}</ref> {{failed verification|date=October 2023}}

] recorded "Les Moulins de Mon Coeur" in 1969 and it was released on her album "Zoom Sur Vicky" in Canada among others .

===In other languages===

] in addition to her English and French versions recorded "The Windmills of Your Mind" in Greek ("Η Μικρή Μας Iστορία") and German ("Wie sich die Mühlen dreh'n im Wind") . These were released on her 1969 albums . It is the title track of the album in Greece and the German album title is "Ich glaub' an dich" .

In 1970 ], prior to recording "The Windmills of Your Mind" with its original English lyrics for her album ''Isle of Helena'' (1972), recorded the song as rendered in Czech: "Můžeš zůstat, můžeš jít",<ref name="Vondrackova.cz">{{cite web|url=http://www.vondrackova.cz/cz/muzika-3/1970-00-00-ostrov-heleny-vondrackove-8|title=Helena Vondráčková - Ostrov Heleny Vondráčkové|website=Vondrackova.cz|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref> and also Japanese: "Kaze no sasayaki".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vondrackova.cz/cz/pisnicky-15/1970-00-00-kaze-no-sasayaki-kaze-no-sasayaki-703|title=Helena Vondráčková - 風 の ささやき – Kaze no sasayaki|website=Vondrackova.cz|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref> Introduced on the album ''Ostrov Heleny Vondráčkové'',<ref name="Vondrackova.cz" /> "Můžeš zůstat, můžeš jít" has become a signature song for Vondráčková: in 2012 when her three CD retrospective ''(Nejen) o lásce'' was issued, Vondráčková cited "Můžeš zůstat, můžeš jít" as "the song on the dearest to heart".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.denik.cz/hudba/helena-vondrackova-prekvapenim-narozeninoveho-koncertu-bude-deyl-20121023-8sbk.html|title=Helena Vondráčková: Jazz miluju už od mládí|date=25 October 2012|website=Denik.cz|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref>

"The Windmills of Your Mind" has also been rendered as "Cirkels", in Dutch, released as a single by ] (1968), reaching the Top 40 in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.top40.nl/herman-van-veen/herman-van-veen-cirkels_21843|title=Herman Van Veen – ''Cirkels''|publisher=Stichting Nederlandse Top 40|website=Top40.nl|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref>

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This article is about the song. For the album by Paul Motian, see The Windmills of Your Mind (album). For the album by Bud Shank, see Windmills of Your Mind (album). 1968 single by Noel Harrison
"The Windmills of Your Mind"
A-side label of UK vinyl single
Single by Noel Harrison
from the album The Thomas Crown Affair
B-side"Leitch on the Beach"
Released1968 (1968)
LabelReprise
Composer(s)Michel Legrand
Lyricist(s)Alan and Marilyn Bergman (English)
Eddy Marnay (French)
Producer(s)Jimmy Bowen

"The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song with music by French composer Michel Legrand and English lyrics written by American lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman. French lyrics, under the title "Les Moulins de mon cœur", were written by Eddy Marnay. It was originally recorded by the English actor Noel Harrison in 1968.

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. A cover by Sting was used in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.

Composition/original recording

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.

Producer/director Norman Jewison had edited the rough cut for the glider scene using the Beatles track "Strawberry Fields Forever", but then commissioned an original song 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 said of the creation of the song: "Michel played us 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 title was 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."

Noel Harrison recorded the song after Andy Williams passed on it. According to Harrison: "It was recorded live on a huge sound stage at Paramount, with the accompanying film clips running on a giant screen and Michel blowing kisses to the orchestra."

Harrison took issue with the couplet "Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own / Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone", singing the word "shone" British-style with a short vowel sound making the rhyme with "own" imperfect. Marilyn Bergman: "We said 'No, it's shone .' And he said 'No, it's our language!' And we said: 'Yes, but it's our song.' So reluctantly, he sang shone and our rhyme was intact." However, in the finally released version Harrison sings "shone" with a short vowel.

Harrison's version had a single released in the US in July 1968 soon after the premiere of the film and similarly was released in the British Isles at the time of the film's 7 February 1969 premiere in the UK and Ireland.

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 of 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. The award facilitated the Top Ten entry of Harrison's single on the UK chart of 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; Noel Harrison would recall: "I was invited to sing it at the Academy Awards... but I was making a movie in England at the time, and the producer (who didn't like me) refused to let me go." The film which caused the scheduling conflict has been identified as Take a Girl Like You directed by Jonathan Miller.

Dusty Springfield version

B-side label of Dusty Springfield's US vinyl single "I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore"

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; Springfield's friend and subsequent manager Vicki Wickham would allege: "Dusty always said she hated it because she couldn't identify with the words." During the first sessions for the track at American Sound Studio in Memphis, problems with getting the proper chords down arose, and at Springfield's suggestion the song was arranged so the first three verses were sung in a slower tempo than the original film version.

In April 1969, the third A-side release from Dusty in Memphis was announced as "I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore" with "The Windmills of Your Mind" as the B-side. However Wexler was prepared to promote "Windmills" as the A-side if it won the Oscar for Best Song, reportedly instructing mailroom clerks at Atlantic Records' New York City headquarters to listen to the Academy Awards broadcast the night of 14 April 1969. Hearing "The Windmills" announced as the Best Song winner was the clerks' cue to drive a station wagon loaded with 2500 copies of a double-sided promo single of Springfield's version – identified on the label as "Academy Award Winner" – to the New York City general post office, where the copies of the single were mailed out to key radio stations across the US. Although its Hot 100 debut was not effected until the 5 May 1969 issue of Billboard and then with a No. 99 ranking, Springfield's "The Windmills" made a rapid ascent to the Top 40 being ranked at No. 40 on the Hot 100 of 24 May 1969 only to stall over the subsequent three weeks peaking at No. 31 on the Hot 100 of 14 June 1969 with only one additional week of Hot 100 tenure, being ranked at No. 45 on the 21 June 1969 chart. On the Cash Box chart, the song rose as high as No. 22.

Local hit parades indicate that Springfield's "Windmills" had Top Ten impact in only select larger markets: Boston, Southern California, and Miami. The track did reach No. 3 on the Easy Listening chart in Billboard, a feat matched by Springfield's third subsequent single "Brand New Me" which therefore ties with "The Windmills" as having afforded Springfield her best-ever solo showing on a Billboard chart.

José Feliciano version

"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. The song's original singer, Noel Harrison, would later opine of Feliciano's performance: "A wonderful musician and compelling singer, he made much too free with the beautiful melody in my humble opinion. But that's jazz." It was Feliciano's version of "The Windmills" which became a hit in the Netherlands, reaching No. 11 on the Dutch chart in November 1969. and No. 4 in the Turkish hit parade in April 1970.

Chart history

Dusty Springfield
Chart (1969) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) 40
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary 6
Canada RPM Top Singles 21
Philippines 34
US Billboard Hot 100 31
US Billboard Adult Contemporary 3
US Cash Box Top 100 22
Noel Harrison
Chart (1969) Peak
position
New Zealand (Listener) 17
South Africa (Springbok) 5
UK Singles (OCC) 8
Jimmie Rodgers
Chart (1969) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 123
Jose Feliciano
Chart (1969) Peak
position
Netherlands 11
Turkey Hit Parade 4

Other versions

In English

Another version by British band the Colourfield from their 1985 album Virgins and Philistines

  • Johnny Mathis Version #1: on his album Love Theme from 'Romeo & Juliet' (1969)
    Version #2: with Toots Thielemans on Thielemans' album Chez Toots (1998)
    Chez Toots track listing reads "Les Moulins de mon cœur (The Windmills of Your Mind)" Mathis sings only the English-language lyrics.

Vicky Leandros recorded "The Windmills of Your Mind" in 1969 . It was released in Europe on her album "My Beautiful Songs" . For South Africa the album title was "Reflections" .

In French: "Les Moulins de mon cœur"

The lyrics for the French-language rendering of the song were written by Eddy Marnay and this version, entitled "Les Moulins de mon cœur" ("The Windmills of My Heart"), was first recorded in 1968 by Marcel Amont who had a minor French chart hit, peaking at no. 49.

Vicky Leandros recorded "Les Moulins de Mon Coeur" in 1969 and it was released on her album "Zoom Sur Vicky" in Canada among others .

In other languages

Vicky Leandros in addition to her English and French versions recorded "The Windmills of Your Mind" in Greek ("Η Μικρή Μας Iστορία") and German ("Wie sich die Mühlen dreh'n im Wind") . These were released on her 1969 albums . It is the title track of the album in Greece and the German album title is "Ich glaub' an dich" .

In 1970 Helena Vondráčková, prior to recording "The Windmills of Your Mind" with its original English lyrics for her album Isle of Helena (1972), recorded the song as rendered in Czech: "Můžeš zůstat, můžeš jít", and also Japanese: "Kaze no sasayaki". Introduced on the album Ostrov Heleny Vondráčkové, "Můžeš zůstat, můžeš jít" has become a signature song for Vondráčková: in 2012 when her three CD retrospective (Nejen) o lásce was issued, Vondráčková cited "Můžeš zůstat, můžeš jít" as "the song on the dearest to heart".

"The Windmills of Your Mind" has also been rendered as "Cirkels", in Dutch, released as a single by Herman van Veen (1968), reaching the Top 40 in the Netherlands.

References

  1. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 135. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. ^ "Marrying The Image: Alan and Marilyn Bergman". ASCAP.com. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  3. ^ "The Windmills of Your Mind". TheWindmillsOfYourMind.com. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
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