Theme song and background score

The Windmills of Your Mind is my favorite song of the sixties and it was of course, this film which launched it. I remember watching this flick for the first time in 1990 on vacation. (I had a huge Faye Dunaway crush when I was 13.) I was mesmerized by the theme song. The diction is perfect. You can make out every word Noel Harrison sings and unlike how I feel about most poetry, the lyrics really make sense and stick with you. But the melody is really where it's at. Talk about sticking with you! It's one of t hose tunes you can't get out of your head if you wanted to. Good thing it's well-composed. When you watch the opening credits accompanied by the above mentioned theme music you're also watching a split screen montage of scenes and characters from the film. Truly captivating. When the credits and song end, you pan down an isolated motel corridor and first see Irwim Loy. The music switches to a very subtle but memorable 60's style jazz. The perfect instrumental to accompany this first mysterious scene. You hear different versions of this jazz throughout the film, both lighthearted and somber. Michael LeGrand truly was a music legend. I ususally don't notice movie music believe it or not, but Thomas Crown Affair is my all-time exception. Say what you will about the characters, plot, split screens (all of which I love by the way) but I just don't think anyone can argue that the music was poor. It was just excellent!