Slippedisc comfort zone 2: Windmills
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I was at the Legrand/Dessay concert at Wiener Konzerthaus in December 2013 – an unforgettable celebration especially when they sang this duet. Perfection.
I love much of Legrand’s music (“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” is marvelous), and his piano playing is excellent (he even did a jazz trio album with, if I’m not mistaken, Ray Brown and Shelly Manne), but this horrible hippy-dippy song is just that – horrible – and it was written for a two-thumbs-down movie, “The Thomas Crown Affair”, easily the worst of Steve McQueen’s starring vehicles.
The second song is lovely as instrumental music, but since I do not speak French, I can’t really form an opinion about it as a song.
But “Windmills Of Your Mind”? I know the English lyrics. And it’s merde.
2 thumbs up!
A clip from Jacques Demy’s and Legrand’s Les Damoiselles de Rochefort would really make us smile.
Oops, “Demoiselles”!