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 Posted: 17:16 - 04 Dec 2011  Post subject: What's this song all about? |
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Dusty Springfield windmills of my mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl8fKAYQuPk
So many different people have sung it.
It about drugs in the sixties, or like some kinda cult song? |
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Lets see what Alan & Marilyn Bergman have to say about it:
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MB: That was an assignment, for a picture called The Thomas Crown Affair. It was a picture about a very wealthy playboy who has been everywhere and done everything, and for a thrill, plans a very complicated bank heist. There was a scene in which he is flying a glider for pleasure while he's planning the bank heist, and the director shot six- or seven-minutes of him circling in the glider -- which is a dream for a songwriter: no dialogue, no sound effects, just a little shoosh of wind. Norman Jewison, the director, wanted a song that exposed no character, that didn't tell any plot -- he just wanted the restlessness and uneasiness of the character underlined. Michel wrote six or seven full melodies, and when we work with him, we write to his melodies, because even though he expresses himself perfectly in English, his French accent is such that things can come out sounding a little like calypso songs! He played us these wonderful melodies, and we agreed to sleep on it. The next morning all three of us had independently chosen this oddball melody, almost baroque in feel. It was the opposite of what we had thought we would have chosen the night before.
AB: I think we chose it because it's kind of a ribbon, a circular melody that reflected the flight of a glider very well.
MB: And it reminded us of those moments when you're trying to fall asleep and you can't turn your mind off. Anxiety is circular, actually.
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So there you have it - restlessness, unease and anxiety.
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| Posted: 18:35 - 04 Dec 2011 Post subject: |
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Indeedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rTq6lDtCsU
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| Posted: 19:47 - 04 Dec 2011 Post subject: |
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And, for added trivia, the original was sung by Noel Harrison (son of actor Rex) and it won an Oscar for best song in 1968, but Noel couldn't do it live, because he was away filming; the previous year it was won by 'Talk To The Animals' from Dr Doolittle and Rex did sing it live at the awards.
Oh, and Noel played at this year's Glastonbury.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 14 years, 113 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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