"The Windmills of Your Mind" ("Les moulins de mon cœur") is a song performed by Noel Harrison

Noel Harrison

Noel Harrison is an English Olympic athlete, actor and singer. He is the son of British actor Sir Rex Harrison.-Early life:...

, with music composed by Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...

 and English lyrics written by Alan Bergman

Alan Bergman

Alan Bergman is an American lyricist and songwriter.-Life & career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows...

 and Marilyn Bergman

Marilyn Bergman

Marilyn Bergman is a composer, songwriter and author.She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English at New York University...

, which was used as the theme for the 1968 film, The Thomas Crown Affair

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)

The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 film by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. It was nominated for two Academy Awards and won the Award for Best Song with Michel Legrand's "Windmills of Your Mind"...

, starring Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen

Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen was an American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination...

 alongside and ultimately versus Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway is an American actress.Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...

. The French lyrics were written by Eduard "Eddy" Marnay.

Noel Harrison

Noel Harrison

Noel Harrison is an English Olympic athlete, actor and singer. He is the son of British actor Sir Rex Harrison.-Early life:...

 took the song to #8 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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, and it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song

Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...

 in 1968. Remarkably, Harrison's father, the British actor Rex Harrison

Rex Harrison

Sir Reginald Carey “Rex” Harrison was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards.-Youth and stage career:...

, had performed the previous year's Oscar winner, "Talk to the Animals

Talk to the Animals

"Talk to the Animals" is a song written by British composer, Leslie Bricusse.Written for the film, Doctor Dolittle, it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 40th Academy Awards. It was performed in the film by Rex Harrison...

".

The opening two melodic sentences were borrowed from Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

's second movement from his Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra.

Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...

's version of the song from her album Dusty in Memphis

Dusty in Memphis

Dusty in Memphis is a landmark album by Dusty Springfield, released in 1969. It was produced by Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin and engineered by Tom Dowd. "So Much Love", "Son of a Preacher Man", "The Windmills Of Your Mind", "Breakfast in Bed", "Just One Smile", "I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore",...

is also well known; this version reached #31 on the US Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 chart and #3 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart

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 in 1969. This recording also appeared on the soundtrack

Soundtrack

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 to Breakfast on Pluto

Breakfast on Pluto (film)

Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...

(2006).

Other artists who have interpreted

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 the song include Vanilla Fudge

Vanilla Fudge

Vanilla Fudge is an American rock band. The band's original lineup – vocalist/organist Mark Stein, bassist/vocalist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist/vocalist Vince Martell, and drummer/vocalist Carmine Appice – recorded five albums during the years 1966–69, before disbanding in 1970...

, Tina Arena

Tina Arena

Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist...

, Petula Clark

Petula Clark

Petula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...

, Barbara Lewis

Barbara Lewis

Barbara Lewis , is an American singer and songwriter whose smooth style influenced rhythm and blues.-Career:Lewis was born in Salem, near Ann Arbor, Michigan...

, Alison Moyet

Alison Moyet

Alison Moyet , is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy voice.Her UK album sales have reached a certified 2.3 million, with 800,000 singles sold, all in the UK, where all seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 40 UK Album Chart,...

, The Colourfield

The Colourfield

The Colourfield were a British band formed in 1984 in Manchester, when former Specials and Fun Boy Three frontman, Terry Hall, joined up with ex-Swinging Cats members Toby Lyons and Karl Shale...

, Swing Out Sister

Swing Out Sister

Swing Out Sister are a British "sophisti-pop" group best known worldwide for their 1986 song "Breakout". Other hits include "Surrender", "Twilight World", "Waiting Game" and a remake of "Am I the Same Girl?" Though album sales in the U.S. and Europe have levelled off since the early 1990s, the...

, Edward Woodward

Edward Woodward

Edward Albert Arthur Woodward, OBE was an English stage and screen actor and singer. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , Woodward began his career on stage, and throughout his career he appeared in productions in both the West End in London and on Broadway in New York...

, Parenthetical Girls

Parenthetical Girls

Parenthetical Girls is an experimental pop band formed in Everett, Washington, and based currently in Portland, Oregon...

, Esthero

Esthero

Esthero ,born Jenny-Bea Englishman, is a Canadian singer-songwriter who currently lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer Doc McKinney...

, Anne Clark

Anne Clark

Anne Clark is an English poet and songwriter. Her first album, The Sitting Room, was released in 1982, and she has released over a dozen albums since then....

, Gordon Matthew "Sting" Sumner, whose version was used in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film)

The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1999 American heist film directed by John McTiernan. The film, starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo and Denis Leary, is a remake of the 1968 film of the same name....

, Sharleen Spiteri

Sharleen Spiteri

Sharleen Spiteri is a Scottish recording artist and songwriter, best known as being the lead singer of Scottish rock/blues band Texas. Texas began their career in 1986, and shot to fame in 1989 with their UK Top Ten single, "I Don't Want a Lover" released from Southside...

 on her The Movie Songbook

The Movie Songbook

The Movie Songbook is the second studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Sharleen Spiteri. It was released on 1 March 2010. The album consists of film song covers, chosen and recorded by Spiteri herself in 2009.- Reception :...

album and Projectorperishilton Band performed 08/10/2011 in 104 episode of the TV Show in memory of Steve Jobs. The French version, "Les moulins de mon cœur", has itself been recorded by a number of artists including Richard Anthony

Richard Anthony

Richard Sidney Anthony was an Irish politician. A Linotype operator by profession, Anthony stood unsuccessfully for election at the 1923 general election. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as an Labour Party Teachta Dála for the Cork Borough constituency at the June 1927 general election. He...

, Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis

John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standards, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts...

 (with Toots Thielemans

Toots Thielemans

Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans , known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgian jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century...

), Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas is a French singer and actress.Kaas is a very successful French-speaking singer, with an International following...

, Vicky Leandros

Vicky Leandros

Vicky Leandros is a Greek singer with a long international career. She is the daughter of singer, musician and composer Leandros Papathanasiou...

, Nana Mouskouri

Nana Mouskouri

Nana Mouskouri , born Ioánna Moúschouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer who has sold about 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She was known as Nána to her friends and...

, Jessye Norman

Jessye Norman

Jessye Norman is an American opera singer. Norman is a well-known contemporary opera singer and recitalist, and is one of the highest paid performers in classical music...

 and Caterina Valente

Caterina Valente

Caterina Valente is a singer, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italian artist family; her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player, her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown...

. The song has also been rendered in Czech as "Můžeš Zůstat, Můžeš Jít" recorded by Helena Vondráčková, Finnish as "Samamlainen onni" recorded by Petri Salminen and also by Marita Taavitsainen; in German as "Unterm Säufermond" by Udo Lindenberg

Udo Lindenberg

Udo Lindenberg is a German rock musician and composer.-Career:Lindenberg started his musical career as a drummer. In 1969 Lindenberg founded his first band Free Orbit and also appeared as a studio and guest musician . In 1970 he collaborated as a drummer with jazz-saxophonist Klaus Doldinger in...

, "Wie sich Mühlen dreh'n im Wind" recorded by Katja Ebstein

Katja Ebstein

Karin Witkiewicz, also known as Katja Ebstein, is a German singer. She was born in Girlachsdorf . She achieved success with songs such as Theater or Es war einmal ein Jäger. She was married to Christian Bruhn, who wrote many of her songs. She represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest...

 and also by Vicky Leandros, and in Swedish as "Vinden I Min Själ" recorded by Lill-Babs

Lill-Babs

Lill-Babs is a Swedish singer and actress.-Biography:Lill-Babs was born in Järvsö, Gävleborg County, as the first daughter of Britta and Ragnar Svensson...

.

Recordings

• American trumpet virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie
  Dizzy Gillespie
  John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
  
   added a jazz tilt to the tune on his 1970 Solid State LP release entitled Cornucopia.
• Rock singer Udo Lindenberg
  Udo Lindenberg
  Udo Lindenberg is a German rock musician and composer.-Career:Lindenberg started his musical career as a drummer. In 1969 Lindenberg founded his first band Free Orbit and also appeared as a studio and guest musician . In 1970 he collaborated as a drummer with jazz-saxophonist Klaus Doldinger in...
  
   of Germany covered the song 1997 as "Under the drunkard moon" ("Unterm Säufermond") - Text: Udo Lindenberg, Horst Königstein.
• The Iran
  Iran
  Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
  
  ian artist Farhad Mehrad
  Farhad Mehrad
  Farhad Mehrad , widely known in Iran as Farhad was an award winning Persian legendary Rock singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist and icon. He rose to prominence among Iranian Rock and Folk musicians before the Islamic Revolution, but after the revolution he was banned from singing for several...
  
   covered the song in his 1996 album Khab dar Bidari.
• American band Vanilla Fudge
  Vanilla Fudge
  Vanilla Fudge is an American rock band. The band's original lineup – vocalist/organist Mark Stein, bassist/vocalist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist/vocalist Vince Martell, and drummer/vocalist Carmine Appice – recorded five albums during the years 1966–69, before disbanding in 1970...
  
   recorded a cover of this song on their album Rock & Roll
  Rock & Roll (Vanilla Fudge album)
  Rock & Roll is the fifth album by the American psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge. It was released in September 1969, and peaked on the Billboard album charts at #34 in October of that year...
  
  in 1969.
• French singer Frida Boccara
  Frida Boccara
  Frida Boccara was a French singer.Frida Boccara was born in Casablanca, Morocco. She submitted the song "Autrefois" to the French Eurovision Song Contest selection panel in 1964 but she was unsuccessful...
  
   performed the French version of this song («Les Moulins De Mon Cœur») on her 1969 album «Un Jour, Un Enfant».
• In concert, Dany Brillant
  Dany Brillant
  Dany Brillant, born Daniel Cohen-Biran in Tunis, Tunisia. He is a Tunisian-French vocalist.In June 2005, Brillant appeared on Les stars chantent leurs idoles, on France 2, alongside stars such as Julio Iglesias and Il Divo....
  
   has performed it in French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
   as a duet with a woman singing in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
  , Viktor Lazlo
  Viktor Lazlo
  Viktor Lazlo is a French-Belgian singer of Grenadian and Martiniquan descent. She studied in Belgium, where she is primarily known. Her biggest hit was "Breathless" in 1987...
  
  .
• Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet , is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy voice.Her UK album sales have reached a certified 2.3 million, with 800,000 singles sold, all in the UK, where all seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 40 UK Album Chart,...
  
   interpreted the song on her solo album Voice, which she recorded in 2004.
• American drag duo Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman recorded the song in 2004 on "Kiki and Herb Will Die For You at Carnegie Hall".
• Tina Arena
  Tina Arena
  Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist...
  
   covered the song for her 2007 album Songs of Love & Loss
  Songs of Love & Loss
  Songs of Love & Loss is the sixth studio album, and first cover album, by Australian singer and songwriter Tina Arena, released on December 1, 2007. The album was Arena's first full length English language record in six years and her first album with EMI since her debut Strong as Steel in 1990...
  
  and jazz singer Dianne Reeves
  Dianne Reeves
  Dianne Reeves is an American jazz singer. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.-Early life:Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan to a very musical family. Her father, who died when she was two years old, was also a singer. Her mother, Vada Swanson, played trumpet. A cousin, George Duke, is a...
  
   did it for her 2008 album When You Know
  When You Know
  When You Know is an album by American jazz singer Dianne Reeves released in 2008.-Track listing:...
  
  .
• José Feliciano
  José Feliciano
  José Feliciano is a Puerto Rican singer, virtuoso guitarist and composer known for many international hits including the 1970 holiday single "Feliz Navidad".-Childhood:...
  
   also made a popular cover of the song.
• Indie rock
  Indie rock
  Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
  
   band Parenthetical Girls
  Parenthetical Girls
  Parenthetical Girls is an experimental pop band formed in Everett, Washington, and based currently in Portland, Oregon...
  
   did a cover of the song on their 2008 album, Entanglements
  Entanglements
  Entanglements is the third full length album from indie rock ensemble Parenthetical Girls.-Track listing:#"Four Words" - 3:10#"Avenue of Trees" - 3:17#"Unmentionables" - 1:51#"Gut Symmetries" - 3:58#"A Song for Ellie Greenwich" - 2:55...
  
  .
• The classical quartet All Angels
  All Angels
  All Angels are a British classical crossover group formed in 2006, consisting of Daisy Chute, Rachel Fabri, Melanie Nakhla andCharlotte Ritchie....
  
   covered the song for their self-titled debut album
  All Angels (album)
  All Angels is the debut album by English Classical crossover group All Angels, released in November 2006. The album sold 33,000 in its first week in the UK becoming the fastest selling classical debut in UK chart history and reached the Top 10 on the UK Album Chart...
  
   released in July 2006.
• The British singer and media personality Jane McDonald
  Jane McDonald
  Jane McDonald is a British singer, actress and media personality and broadcaster, who first became famous following her appearance on the BBC docusoap The Cruise...
  
   Covered the song on her 2003 Album [The Collection].
• Australian hip hop artist Phrase
  Phrase (rapper)
  Harley Webster —better known as Phrase—is an Australian hip hop MC, originating from Melbourne, Victoria.-History:Phrase began to piece together an album with producers Daniel Merriweather and J-Skub , while working part-time for the Reach Youth foundation, an organization that Phrase credits with...
  
   released a single, "Clockwork", which featured a sample of the Ray Conniff Singers's version of the song, in 2008.
• Earl Grant
  Earl Grant
  Earl Grant was an American easy listening pianist, Hammond organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s.-Career:...
  
   covered the song on his 1969 album A Time For Us.
• Popular Christian
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  /Gospel
  Gospel music
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  /Jazz
  Jazz
  Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
  
   a capella sextet Take 6
  Take 6
  Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel music sextet formed in 1980 on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. The group sings in a contemporary style, integrating R&B and jazz influences into their devotional songs and has 10 Grammy wins, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two...
  
   did a cover of the song on their 2008 album, The Standard
  The Standard (Take 6 album)
  The Standard, released on September 30, 2008 on Heads Up International, is a Jazz music album by American contemporary Gospel music group Take 6.-Track listing:#"Sweet Georgia Brown" 3:26...
  
  .
• British singer Terry Hall
  Terry Hall (singer)
  Terry Hall is the lead singer of The Specials, and formerly of Fun Boy Three, The Colourfield, Terry, Blair & Anouchka and Vegas. He has released two solo albums and has also collaborated with many artists including David A...
  
   of The Specials
  The Specials
  The Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...
  
   covered the song on his 1994 album The Collection.
• British singer Sally Ann Marsh
  Sally Ann Marsh
  Sally Ann Marsh is a British singer and actress who came to fame originally as a member of a short lived girlband with Diana Barrand and Dani Behr called Faith Hope & Charity, .-Performing career:...
  
   recorded a promo single in 1995, with various dance versions of the song.
• British new wave
  New Wave music
  New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
  
   band The Colourfield
  The Colourfield
  The Colourfield were a British band formed in 1984 in Manchester, when former Specials and Fun Boy Three frontman, Terry Hall, joined up with ex-Swinging Cats members Toby Lyons and Karl Shale...
  
   included a cover of the song as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Virgins and Philistines.
• Michel Legrand
  Michel Legrand
  Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...
  
  , who composed the music, regularly performs the song in concert; he then does so in its version with French lyrics, translated by Eddy Marnay. It usually includes a fast-paced improvisation on the theme.
• Val Doonican
  Val Doonican
  Val Doonican is an Irish singer. From 1965 to 1986 he was a regular fixture on the BBC Television's schedule with The Val Doonican Show, which featured his own singing performances and a variety of guest artists...
  
   recorded it on His Special Years.
• A dance club version by Meck
  Meck (musician)
  Meck is the DJ and recording alias of Craig Dimech, the former head of free2air recordings and now Frenetic Music. Having started his A&R career at Ministry Of Sound imprint Incentive Music, Craig has been responsible or had a hand in many Top 10 and Top 20 UK hits...
  
  , titled "Windmills", was released in 2008. The vocal recording of Meck's version of "Windmills of Your Mind" was by vocalist Linda Ganzini, from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• Henry Mancini also performed an instrumental version on the album Best of Henry Mancini, released on the 20th of June 2004.
• Elaine Paige
  Elaine Paige
  Elaine Paige OBE is an English singer and actress best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended the Aida Foster stage school, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16...
  
   covered the song for her 1984 album, Cinema
  Cinema (Elaine Paige album)
  Cinema is the forth solo album by Elaine Paige. The album was released in 1984 on Warner Music, peaking at #12 in the UK album charts. This album has been re-issued on CD.It was the second of Paige's recordings to be produced by Tony Visconti...
  
  .
• Dusty Springfield
  Dusty Springfield
  Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...
  
   covered the song on her 1969 album Dusty in Memphis
  Dusty in Memphis
  Dusty in Memphis is a landmark album by Dusty Springfield, released in 1969. It was produced by Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin and engineered by Tom Dowd. "So Much Love", "Son of a Preacher Man", "The Windmills Of Your Mind", "Breakfast in Bed", "Just One Smile", "I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore",...
  
  .
• Petula Clark
  Petula Clark
  Petula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...
  
   covered the song for her 1969 album Portrait Of Petula.
• Hank Marvin
  Hank Marvin
  Hank Brian Marvin is an English guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows. The group, which primarily performed instrumentals, was formed as a backing band for vocalist Cliff Richard...
  
   has covered the song twice: first in 1969 on his eponymous solo album, then in 2000 on his album Marvin at the Movies.
• Finnish duo Jarkko ja Laura performed the finnish version "Samanlainen onni" for their 1969 single.
• Muppets The Screaming Thing performed a version of this song for a 1977 episode of the Muppet Show.
• American soul singer Billy Paul
  Billy Paul
  Billy Paul is a Grammy Award winning American soul singer, most known for his 1972 number-one single, "Me and Mrs. Jones" as well as the 1973 album and single "War of the Gods" which blends his more conventional pop, soul and funk styles with electronic and psychedelic influences...
  
   covered the song for his 1970 album Ebony Woman, which he released on the Neptune Records label.
• The Sandpipers
  The Sandpipers
  The Sandpipers were an American easy listening trio/quartet, who carved a niche in 1960s folk rock. They are best remembered for their cover version of "Guantanamera", which became a transatlantic Top 10 hit in 1966, and their Top 20 hit "Come Saturday Morning" from the soundtrack of the film The...
  
   included the song in their 1969 album The Wonder of You
  The Wonder of You (The Sandpipers album)
  The Wonder of You was an LP album featuring The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in May 1969. The catalog numbers were SP 4180 in the United States and AMLS 935 in the United Kingdom...
  
  .
• Jimmie Rodgers
  Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)
  James Frederick "Jimmie" Rodgers is an American singer. He is not related to the country singer of the same name.-Career:...
  
   covered the song in a 1969 album of the same name.
• Brazilian singer Daniel Boaventura covered the song on his 2009 album Songs 4 U.
• Hannah Gordon
  Hannah Gordon
  Hannah Cambell Grant Gordon is a Scottish actress who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television work, including Upstairs, Downstairs, Telford's Change, My Wife Next Door, Joint Account and an appearance in the final episode of One Foot in the Grave.-Early life:Gordon was born in...
  
   performed the song in the 1973 Morecambe and Wise
  Morecambe and Wise
  Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, usually referred to as Morecambe and Wise, or Eric and Ernie, were a British comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984...
  
   Christmas Show.
• Max Q (quartet)
  Max Q (quartet)
  Max Q is the barbershop quartet that won the gold medal Barbershop Harmony Society International Barbershop Quartet Contest at Denver's Pepsi Center July 7, 2007.The quartet's run for the title is featured in the 2009 feature documentary American Harmony....
  
   included the song on their album Journey released in 2009.
• Nana Mouskouri
  Nana Mouskouri
  Nana Mouskouri , born Ioánna Moúschouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer who has sold about 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She was known as Nána to her friends and...
  
  's recording of the song was released on her compilation Ode to Joy.
• Jazz legend Abbey Lincoln
  Abbey Lincoln
  Anna Marie Wooldridge , better known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. Lincoln was unusual in that she wrote and performed her own compositions, expanding the expectations of jazz audiences.-Biography:Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was one of many...
  
   recorded the tune on her album "Over the Years".
• Rona Kenan, an Israeli artist, recorded a version, which was included in her second album, "Foreign Eyes".
• Dutch performer Herman van Veen
  Herman van Veen
  Hermannus Jantinus "Herman" van Veen is a Dutch stage performer, actor, musician and singer/songwriter and author. He is most famous as the creator of the Dutch-Japanese cartoon Alfred J...
  
   recorded this song in Dutch as Cirkels (Circles), translated by Rob Chrispijn.
• Swiss singer Sonja Salvis performed the French version of the song on her 1970 album "Send for me" recorded with the Czechoslovak Gustav Brom
  Gustav Brom
  Gustav Brom, was a Czech big band leader, arranger, clarinettist and composer. He achieved fame in Europe and abroad from the 1940’s right through to his death in 1995...
  
   Orchestra.
• Jazz singer Dianne Reeves
  Dianne Reeves
  Dianne Reeves is an American jazz singer. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.-Early life:Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan to a very musical family. Her father, who died when she was two years old, was also a singer. Her mother, Vada Swanson, played trumpet. A cousin, George Duke, is a...
  
   included the song on her 2008 recording When You Know
  When You Know
  When You Know is an album by American jazz singer Dianne Reeves released in 2008.-Track listing:...
  
  .
• British band The Colourfield
  The Colourfield
  The Colourfield were a British band formed in 1984 in Manchester, when former Specials and Fun Boy Three frontman, Terry Hall, joined up with ex-Swinging Cats members Toby Lyons and Karl Shale...
  
   covered the song on their 1985 album, Virgins and Philistines.
• Chinese singer Chyi Yu
  Chyi Yu
  Chyi Yu , is a Taiwanese singer. She is also the older sister of Taiwanese singer songwriter Chyi Chin, and is best known for her 1979 hit, "The Olive Tree" .-Discography:*1979 橄欖樹 *1982 祝福*1983 你是我所有的回憶*1984 有一個人...
  
   covered the song on her 1988 album, Stories.
• Jazz saxophonist Phil Woods
  Phil Woods
  Philip Wells Woods is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.-Biography:...
  
   recorded the tune with a full orchestra, musically arranged by Legrand himself.
• Greek singer Vassilikos
  Vassilikos
  Vassilikos or Vasilikos can refer to:*Vasilikos, Zakynthos, a peninsula on the Greek island of Zakynthos*Vasilikos Power Station on Cyprus*Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and diplomat*Vassilikos, frontman of Greek band Raining Pleasure...
  
   covered the song on his 2009 album Vintage.
• Rita Reys
  Rita Reys
  Rita Reys is a jazz singer from the Netherlands.At the 1960 jazz festival of Juan Les Pins , she received the title 'Europe’s first lady of jazz'.-Early career:...
  
   recorded the song for her 1972 album Rita Reys sings Michel Legrand.
• Helena Vondráčková
  Helena Vondrácková
  Helena Vondráčková is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades.- Early life/career :Vondráčková spent her childhood years in the town of Slatinany. She took piano lessons from an early age...
  
   has recorded the song in English, on the album Isle of Helena, released in 1972, and also in Czech as "Můžeš zůstat, můžeš jít", on the album Ostrov Heleny Vondráčkové, released in 1970.
• Lad'a Kerndl and Tereza Kerndlová
  Tereza Kerndlová
  Tereza Kerndlová is a singer in the Czech Republic. She rose to fame as a member of the trio Black Milk since 2001...
  
   recorded the song for their 2007 English language album Together Again.
• Czech (slovak) singer Hana Hegerová na albu "mlýnské kolo v srdci mém", český text "Mlýnské kolo v srdci mém".
• Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
  
   interpreted the song on The Movie Album--As Time Goes By, which the Columbia Records
  Columbia Records
  Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
  
   label originally released on October 27, 1998.
• French singer Patricia Kaas
  Patricia Kaas
  Patricia Kaas is a French singer and actress.Kaas is a very successful French-speaking singer, with an International following...
  
   performed the French version of this song on her 2002 album "Piano Bar".
• Canadian francophone singer Mario Pelchat
  Mario Pelchat
  Mario Pelchat is a francophone singer.-Biography:Quebec singer Mario Pelchat has performed since 1973. His first 45 RPM single recording was released in September 1981. His early albums include 1982's Je suis un chanteur and Tu m’as fait mal the following year...
  
   performed the French version of this song on his 2009 album "Chante Michel Legrand".
• In 2011, actress Eva Mendes
  Eva Mendes
  Eva Mendes is an American actress.She began acting in the late 1990s, and after a series of minor roles and performances in several smaller films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror and Urban Legends: Final Cut , she broke into the mainstream, appearing in leading roles in Hollywood...
  
   recorded the song on the new campaign of the Mugler
  Thierry Mugler
  Thierry Mugler is a French fashion designer and creator of several perfumes.-Childhood:Mugler was born in Strasbourg, France on 21 December 1948. His passion led him to focus more on drawing than on school and at the age of 9, he began to study classical dance...
  
  's Angel perfume.
• In 2011, the Lebanese coloratura soprano
  Coloratura soprano
  A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano who specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs and leaps. The term coloratura refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component of the music written for this voice...
  
   with a vocal range of four octaves, Hiba Tawaji
  Hiba Tawaji
  Hiba Michel Tawaji was born on December 10, 1987, in Achrafieh-Beirut, and grew up in the Elissar-Matn District. Tawaji is a Lebanese singer, actress, and director. She sings in Arabic, English and French...
  
  , covered the song in Arabic language in her debut album that carried the same name of the song "La Bedaya Wa La Nehaya", or "Not a beginning nor an ending".

External links

• http://www.thewindmillsofyourmind.com Noel Harrison fan site