Henry Mancini: 'The Windmills Of Your Mind'

[Nancy99999]

BEST SONG EVER MADE? I think so.

[attalal]

I've been looking for this version for years. The links to Amazon and iTunes ARE NOT this version of the song.

[reach1ja]

I could listen to this music 24/7. 

[ebald]

@Emil4ik "Henry Mancini also performed an instrumental version on the album Best of Henry Mancini, released on the 20th of June 2004." (Look for this music name on Wikipedia)

[ZizooMoDaI]

Turn your right speaker off, or shift balance so only left side of the stereo track plays (whatever works). It's like another little gem hidden in there. :3

[sia09081]

Wundervoll, Danke...

[Chuckie548]

This is the best version of Windmills of Your Mind.

[ElPorteroso]

I had to pause this and go get a small glass of one of my better scotches before I could finish it.

[Emil4ik]

"The Windmills of Your Mind" ("Les moulins de mon cœur") is a song performed by Noel Harrison, with music by Michel Legrand and English lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, from the 1968 film, The Thomas Crown Affair.[1] The French lyrics were penned by Eddy Marnay.

This is MICHEL LEGRAND music, not Mancini...

[b3witch3d]

@Emil4ik yes but this is Henry Mancinis version/ arrangement, because I have it from a CD

[Emil4ik]

@b3witch3d oh, i didn't know anything about arrangement, but in any case, i believe composer's name should be seen somewhere.

[TrgdyAnn]

My parents had Henry Mancini albums they played often when I was a kid (for the kiddies that would be records),....LoL

[cj171921]

Some songs are so hypnotically mesmerizing that they transcend generations. You just stop. And listen. And each of us is taken back to a place, a time... reserved in our memories.

[sibionic]

@cj171921 right on

[stillmeadowfarm]

Please don't say horrible stuff just to be saying it...I have loved this song since childhood. I listen to this album with my granddaughter now.

[bussitbabay]

whyd you tag someone els beat with your tag



[Jamal249999]

I'm a natural born killa that's born to rise

Flipmode is the squad so it's no surprise

Niggas want to advertise about how we get down

You fuck around leave your body in the lost and found

Busta Rhymes - We Could Take It Outside

[Lilita421]

This song is great but played instumentally is a masterpiece!

[laruesansjoie]

In 1970 in Vietnam I had a battery operated record player. I would listen to this song over and over again while up in a base camp guard tower looking out at the central highlands covered with triple canopy jungles. Even as I led 6 man recon patrols through them I was always fascinated by the mystery of them; the morning mist that could last in its valleys till noon. All the while I knew the enemy was in them whom we sought out. Even when not there I felt a hypnotic draw to those mountains.

[schmarcie]

@laruesansjoie I was 6 in '70. I want to thank you for your service. God bless you!

[lorrainedegroote]

@laruesansjoie I love when people post comments about the memories certain songs produce.

[sashaqueenie]

No, I like Macini's version the best. Just the right speed. Noel's version is too fast, too urgent. Mancini's version is more lush and reflective.

[3000whateverman]

wooooooow. so this is where busta rhymes got the sample from. coming back from the bahamas i heard this at the airport. had to look it up. very nice.

[sabinoalejandropiano]

Un arreglo con la gran categoria del inolvidable Henry Mancini,un gran pianista ademas de su enorme talento en la composicion de hermosas melodias.Bravo Maestro.

[amandazed]

Henry = genius

[XieYali]

This is very Michel Legrand, very remenicent of the themes for Solange in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. :)

[MegaHewett]

lovly thanks .

[Crumphorn]

I like Mancini and think he's an excellent composer and arranger but this version is a little too obvious for me. He's done much better, much subtler stuff.

[mzfiesty]

I just met Alan and Marilyn Bergman in Toronto! They wrote the lyrics.

[bjroberts65]

Henry Mancini is GOD!!!

[primogennaio]

A haunting song that evokes the days oif my youth. I remember when my Mom had the radio on and this song was played. Oh how sad music like thgis is no longer composed.

[antsorter]

well well

one of my favorite film score writers/composers covering one of my favorite jazz musicians

how divine ( :

[supagramster]

hehe this is dope

[UncleUlser]

I've just listened to a dozen or more vocalists performing this - leave it to Henry Mancini to have the definitive version. All the singers put so much rubato into it the words ought to be "Round, like a circle in an egg shell, like a flat tire on a stair, like an oval pile of offal oozing off an oblong chair..." In other words, the singers didn't make it sound round to me at all. I did like the graphics, though the suggestions over on the right started swimming around a bit. Many thanks.

[colocal87]

@mmaced thomas crown

[orvar1982]

This is not written by Mancini!! This is Michelle Legrand, the french composer!

[connormcj25]

RIP Mr Mancini

[adri242]

I guess every version of this song is a piece of art...

Check out Dorothy Ashby's version too, one of my favorites

[PhillipLWilcher]

Henry Mancini was an elegant composer and an equally elegant arranger. So too Michel Legrand. Musically they explored the same textures. I heard Mancini live here in Sydney in the early 70s. He was all eloquence and sophistication. A natural.

Thank you for this!

[lingay23en]

so beautiful!!! i miss this kind of music.

[jipidibipity]

Mancini, is a rhythmist. Whats sexier than that?

[ChristianPainter]

1+ people have splinters in the windmills of there mind! (sorry, I usually don't do "dislike" comments but I just had to do this one)

[Japanese1970]

Mancini is of the few arrangers who could combine

different intruments in a song without distorting or

destroying the beauty of the piece.

In the Windmills of your mind, Mancini cleverly gave

a particular intrument or combine them to produce a

beautiful harmony. My favorite is 1:45 to 2:30 with

full orchestra especially the morendo part 2:09 to

2:13 with strings fading away.

Thanks for posting this beautiful enigmatic song.

[tripptales]

I am looking for the song my husband and I chose as Our Song. It was called LOVE NOTES. Anyone have a copy of this???

[selstonnigel]

lovely

[bbmyls2go]

@harponercam - I dont understand how some people can say times were simpler, this was written during the Cold War, shortly after the Cuban missle crises and the assination of Kennedy, and during the Viet Nam war. Civil rights protests and riots were occuring across the country and San Francisco was the drug and lifestyle experiment epicenter.  Please, the music stands alone, not as part of your preconceived memories of that era.

[flowerpoo21]

i would love to know who the one dislike was, the cat or the dog???

[russpad22]

@mmaced

Hi, have you got a full version of that version you know?

I think I could cover it, its magical, russpad22@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks Russ/Noel xxx

[69bestofthebest]

love this music.... the musicians and singers today have egos bigger than their talent, and their talent wasnt that big to begin with.... and the same goes for the actors/actresses to much ego and very little talent.... i wish they would bring back the music and the tv shows from years ago..... but, theres just no talent anymore... its dead, and cant be revived......

[69bestofthebest]

love this music.... the musicians and singers today have egos bigger than their talent, and their talent wasnt that big to begin with.... and the same goes for the actors/actresses to much ego and very little talent.... oh well....

[harponercam]

They can't make music like this anymore, because this whole period now, this whole world, vibrates to an unghastly vibration of dissonance rush and worry. these were slower times back then -the music is it's reflection. Progress had come but hadn't turned into Industrial Disease,

management had not yet turned into sadism.

[dwade1962eagle]

@harponercam Yada yada yada you aren't looking hard enough. Horner is putting out amazing soundtracks like this. If you do not like the music in a Beautiful Mind you are dead. Or you are deaf. First sign of aging is longing for a yesteryear that did not exist. Also check out the soundtrack to Meet Joe Black. Mancini and Legrand wrote music for the same reason it is written today and for same reason Mozart wrote ....the money.

[mythtree]

@harponercam I hadn't considered it that way, but in considering your consideration, would not the partaking of older tunes & times hearken to that vibration and influence this reflection in our dimension...?

[harponercam]

@mythtree Yes! and that's why we're lucky to have youtube to access it.

[mythtree]

@harponercam YES! & all the creative interesting people sharing ideas and talent, it's really amazing energy to think of it!

[TotalitarianHypnosis]

Maybe someone can clarify this for me. What genre of music is this? I've been getting largely into American composers like Henry Mancini and the Italian composers of the 60s and 70s, notably Morricone's giallo/mystery stuff, Stelvio Cipriani, Bruno Nicolai, and others. I would like to find more but I have trouble labeling it a genre. I know most are film scores but is the style of music "showtune"? "muzak"? help! :)

[chkjns]

@TotalitarianHypnosis The best name for this genre is the 1961 name Billboard Magazine gave it: Easy Listening. Other slang terms exist, usually used by those who cannot appreciate this format. Billboard changed this name to Adult Contemporary in 1979 which meant the original easy listening genre itself needed a new name: Beautiful Music is the name used by the few remaining stations that play the original format. Come hear my playlists for 100 different genres covereing over a century. chuck

[loiduplusfort]

Michel Legrand composed this!! Mancini is also wonderful I have to admit..

[pyecat]

There's some guy that sings this song, I'v heard it and it's very good I think it my be Sting

[zypp33]

@pyecat He does!

[chupacabron1]

One of Mancini's greatest interpretations.

Thanks for shareing.

[Truds1000]

Are you realizing yet that you are a blessed and chosen one....give thanks! Lady N

[ChannelingusIV]

listening to this almost makes me start bawling :'|

[audelinom]

Mancini was a superb composer, but he was also an amazing arranger. He could take a theme like this from another composer and give it his own interpretation adding his sensibilities an beautiful taste.

[JIMMIESURFS]

Looks like u the rotate effects of yur edit program got a workout! lol

[NickyNickyWaaWaa]

i love the song but i get annoyed that the images don't take up the full screen. you did a good job though

[krourou2]

Oh, this sounds the closest to the song 13emmy13's music box plays! And it's on the piano! DOUBLE BONUS! Seriously, it's about as creepy as the music box version... I've got to get an MP3 of this, then buy a music box like 13emmy13's...

[rcclimbhigher]

this was one hip cat..saew him play this at Harrahs tahoe back in the day

[MassaJim]

If I'm going to get vertigo, the is the best way to do it, listening to one of the best compositions of the 20th century played by a master musician. Love it! Great video, too.

[rabbittown1900]

私日本企業では働きたく無いよ…！！。今まで散々色んな職場で働­いていたけど良い事無くっていじめばかり受けて働いてばかりだっ­たから凄く毎日ストレスたまってたもん！！。創価の圧力もあった­と思う…！！。この際だから外国企業で思いっきり自分を必要とし­てくれる企業で働きたい…！！！。



[sixtiesforever1966]

@mmaced Do you mean The Thomas Crown Affair? Fay Dunnaway, Steve McQueen. Remake In 1999 with Pierce Brosnan , and Rene Russo!

Yes they were both great movies. Thanks Sir David

[achillesgazzaneoable]

A música é do francês Michel Legrand, trilha sonora do filme (Policial - EUA) The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 ) . Aqui executada brilhantemente pelo meu grande amigo Enrico Nicola Mancini . Atores principais Steve McQueen e a bela Faye Dunaway , Paul Burke, etc ... Produção/Direção canadense Norman Jewison 84 anos por aí - Outros : Jesus Cristo Superstar. Um Violinista No Telhado, Não Me Mandem Flores, Os Russos Estão Chegando, etc.

[hollywoodfinch]

I just love this music. Used to hear it on KNBR radio in San Francisco back in the early 70's.

[hollywoodfinch]

I played this 45 rpm so much! I just love this song...reminds me of my younger days...

[TheDarkDresser]

My favorite version.

[naughtydreadz]

FINALLY!!!!! OMG. I walked into this bistro in Montreal and this was playing...

I managed to look at the title, but it was a crazy weekend and I forgot...

long story short, this is the original to my favorite busta rhymes track...

[brad353]

@naughtydreadz We Could Take It Outside :)!! It's also my fav track by Bussa-Bus (Y) :)

[tygersighs]

Fragrant

[ondimonyou]

but what has done for this music mr. Mancini?

composer of the Windmills... is Michael Legrand, isn't he?

[UKReferendum]

PWR full Light 'n' Shade Grandiose All The Way - Humanities Windmill of Grain 'n' Wine - Deep Well Refined - Classic - Thanx 4 this Recall ... hypnotic YES ... !!!

[yulno]

Gorgeous...

[Tejano44]

Bonita ! Bravo!

[illpee01]

Busta Rhymes We Could Take Outside , raw track

[harponercam]

I can almost see Don Quixote falling off his horse! Tilt!

Awesome harpsichord! Haunting string finish.......

[BEAUTIFULMusic73]

this is stunnin g b3witched i love it hun!

this is your friend Nick from LoverofEverythingOld...with my beautiful music channel i'll send u an invite hun!

[bituinnory]

everlasting musics from mancini style...i love his musics

[livingpiano]

Quality in its most distilled form!!! Theres only one henri mancini and one legrand.

[cazizihni]

Best.....

[hmyles09]

oh my darling James, do you still remember this month of the year. This December i will celebrate our wedding day without you! Darling, I miss you so much. I will love you forever and ever, my James.

[itsknowing]

@hmyles09 The love you have will mean that this December you will celebrate your wedding day with James as you will every year and that you will always be together. Always. He is with you. He is with you. Just as you are with him. Nothing will divide you from him, my dear, or he from you. Your comment is by far the most touching comment I have ever read in five years of Youtube. Celebrate your wedding day with joy and know that your love is infinite union with James. You will never be alone.

[Baritone45]

@hmyles09  very touching

[lossadjuster1]

God alone knows why they cant make music like this anymore...........all we get now is a ghastly noise produced by an equally ghastly one hit wonder!!

[lethalvenom888]

@lossadjuster1 its out there, you just need to look harder.

[FromCarol]

@lossadjuster1 The Heart and the Soul and the Passion of Musicians is just not there anymore?.. God this song is beautiful. It is music to sleep by, to dream to, write all the words that need to be wriiten, I must listen to it again. It is also the song of lovers, once omnipresent that are no more.. From Carol

[FromCarol]

@lossadjuster1 The Heart and the Soul and the Passion of Musicians is just not there anymore?.. God this song is beautiful. It is music to sleep by, to dream to, write all the words that need to be wriiten, I must listen to it again. It is also the song of lovers, once omnipresent that are no more.. From Carol

[lingay23en]

@lossadjuster1 so true! 

[singalongwithtom]

@lossadjuster1 Bull shit.

[colocal87]

@lossadjuster1 look harder kid

[Mercurium67]

@lossadjuster seems to me that society is being broken down.... by design??? perhaps... you look around and see what is going on..... government is spending more money than they are taking in ... just to keep operating..... is there an issue there???? and they just blame the other side......

its bull crap

[b3witch3d]

@Mercurium67 er could we keep the comments to do with the music...sorry it just sounds like some sort of political debate ;)

[todd76705]

@Mercurium67 if you want to post political comments, there's other places to do that.  don't post political comments in here. post comments about this particular video or music in general. this isn't the proper place for political comments.

[flgarrett]

@lossadjuster1 You are absolutely right...that's why I am so thankful for this great music that did get made...

[Auronlu7912]

@lossadjuster1 Music like this totally still gets made....it's not always the music that you hear on the radio every day, but since when music like this has ever been common?

[ginevra15665]

wunderbar

[Akyla0177]

this is so..... hynotick!!!!

[jaybee3]

nice version by Mancini, but this is a Michel Legrand composition.

[dimitar205]

could you send me the mp3 please?

[BIGTEE1471]

for all those who dont know busta sampled this

[aristides1962]

on what song

[ardixiv]

We could take it outside, appeared on 'When Disaster Strikes'

[goldenoldiesPete]

Beautiful song - thanks for posting (and thanks to Nancy for sharing). It's clearly implied that Mancini was its composer. Was he also the pianist on this version/video?

[shane10033]

The composer was Michel Legrand (sp?)

[nancyfloressantos]

So beautiful. Thanks for this very wonderful music. Soundtrack of the movie The Thomas Crown Affair 1968.

[franklindavid]

The World loves Mancini! his music will live on.

[davidaud777]

great music...love this tune....has that circular up and down beautiful sound. thanks

[aworkinprogress2]

Do a search of this song and you will find several people did it with the lyrics. Noel Harrison and Dusty Springfield did it back in the day when it first became popular.

[hotrowdypiper]

you must put alots of time doing this . nice...

[tap585grad706]

Great version. Henry Mancini had always been a favourite composer of mine. Thanks for posting!

Vince Ravon. Songwriter.

[zezovsk]

Mancini and Legran!

[bellascilla]

The video definitely makes me dizzy. Reminds me of some of the silly illegal things I did in the 70's.

[lucy0loves0music]

wow great song! I wish someone could make a cover using Mancini's instrumental. or maybe vocals wouldn't really fit the melody... maybe a male singer could do it.

[Soulcage83]

STING did - in 1999 - the song is on the Single of "Brand New Day" out of his album "Brand New Day".

[VagianTuerous]

The music of Mancini was at once ground-breaking, and definitive of his era. It will continue to inspire long into the future.

[lcchocolate59]

love the mancini music, but this video makes me dizzy

[b3witch3d]

:) sorry about that...I tried to make the pictures go with the music:)

[fragrencefree101]

:) i liked the way it made me dizzy, it somhow goes with the song

[suir52]

@b3witch3d The pictures are great, did you do them yourself? They remind of Saul Bass' openig credits for Hitchcock's Vertigo, Psycho, etc also Maurice Binders Pre-Bond one for Charade, Arabesque (Music mr Mancini)

[suir52]

@b3witch3d The pictures are great, did you do them yourself? They remind of saul Bass' credits for Hitchcock's Vertigi, Pyscho etc. also Maurice Binder's pre 0Bond ones for Charade and Arabesque music Mr Mancini

[Bopeliano]

splendide ..

[ilegnah303]

Esse piano é tudo de bom. Que melodia...

[franzkafka1010]

Great! Thanks for posting!

[ArthurBeaudarc]

for quite some time in the early 90's this tune (and this version) was what I referred to as `my sleeping pill'.. I'd play it last thing at night before going to sleep and everything in the world would be okay.. I've long since lost the vinyl and am happy to find it here. thanks for posting it..

arthur

[audreychou83]

great song !! is michel legrand who composed that song "Les moulins de mon coeur" ^^