Nina van Pallandt - The Windmills of Your Mind, 1970

Posted by http://www.nostalgoteket.se One of my top three favorite songs this, (the other two being You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine by Lou Rawls and Summertime by George Gershwin).

Nina is a danish singer and actress, she married the baron Frederik van Pallandt and formed a singing duo, Nina & Frederik, with him. They achieved worldwide fame. She became a solo artist after they parted and later divorced. He became a drug trafficker in the Phillipines and was shot dead in 1994.

"The Windmills of Your Mind" (Les moulins de mon cœur) is a song with music by Michel Legrand, as well as Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, and lyrics by the Bergmans, from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. Noel Harrison performed the song for the film score. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1969. (Harrison's father, the British actor Rex Harrison, had performed the previous year's Oscar-winning "Talk to the Animals"). The opening two melodic sentences were adopted from Mozart's second movement from his Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra.

This clip is from The Morecambe and Wise show, their Golden Rose Of Montreux Entry in 1970.

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• Nina van Pallandt
• The Windmills of Your Mind
• 1970
• Les moulins de mon cœur
• Michel Legrand
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• The Morecambe and Wise show
• Golden Rose Of Montreux

[007chuky]

She can sing to me, anytime. Soft, sexy and a clear beautiful voice. No drama, just class...like it.

[piroschka6]

she has he beauty of an elf and a voice as satin and velvet.

[javinnelaureen]

Incredible! One of the best versions ever of this beautiful song!! I love it!

[RichRugby1980]

Nina is lovely, so elegant with a clear, pure voice. I do like her singing. She appeared on Morecambe and Wise a few times in the early 70's, where this clip is from. She also sang "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown" on one of their Christmas shows and they then did a funny bit when she was trying to sing The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting) She often couldn't help but laugh when I think she was meant to keep a straight face. Lovely.

[ganzegal123]

Best Version of this song

[Thatgirl1965]

@coolcat20million - yes! Wonderful, isn't it. :-)



[coolcat20million]

Beautiful rendition.

Is this the same Nina who sings "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?"