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The current thread on dementia got me thinking of the more common memory fade as we age. I cannot explain it, but I often think of this well-known painting "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali.
But I digress from the intended theme of this thread, "Movie Music". It might be just an excuse for me to post a favorite song of mine which also relates to memory, brought up by the aforementioned thread about the loss of the latter, actually.
It is "The Windmills of Your Mind", in the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair" originally starring Steve McQueen.
From Wikipedia:
I have listened to Dusty Springfield's rendition and of course Sting's in the movie remake, but my favorite has always been one by Neil Diamond, though it is not as popular as the others, and I have not found it on youtube.
YouTube - Windmills of your Mind - Movie Version HQ
But I digress from the intended theme of this thread, "Movie Music". It might be just an excuse for me to post a favorite song of mine which also relates to memory, brought up by the aforementioned thread about the loss of the latter, actually.
It is "The Windmills of Your Mind", in the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair" originally starring Steve McQueen.
Was the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
Or the fragment of a song
Half-remembered names and faces
but to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the colour of her hair?
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
Or the fragment of a song
Half-remembered names and faces
but to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the colour of her hair?
From Wikipedia:
The Windmills of Your Mind" (Les moulins de mon cœur) is a song with words and music by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand 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 1968. (Harrison's father, the British actor Rex Harrison, had performed the previous year's Oscar-winning "Talk to the Animals").
Dusty Springfield's version of the song is also well known; this version reached #31 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart in 1969.[1] This recording also appears on the soundtrack to Breakfast on Pluto (2006). Other artists who have covered the song include Alison Moyet, Swing Out Sister, Edward Woodward and Sting, whose version was used in the 1999 remake of the same film.
Dusty Springfield's version of the song is also well known; this version reached #31 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart in 1969.[1] This recording also appears on the soundtrack to Breakfast on Pluto (2006). Other artists who have covered the song include Alison Moyet, Swing Out Sister, Edward Woodward and Sting, whose version was used in the 1999 remake of the same film.
I have listened to Dusty Springfield's rendition and of course Sting's in the movie remake, but my favorite has always been one by Neil Diamond, though it is not as popular as the others, and I have not found it on youtube.
YouTube - Windmills of your Mind - Movie Version HQ
Cue the windmills:
bbbami too with the theme song from Titanic. Both these songs really get to me. 
