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"Wind Beneath My Wings" (sometimes titled "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "Hero") is a song written in 1982 by Americans Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley. [1]The song was first recorded [2] by Australian singer Kamahl in 1982 for a country and western album he was recording.
The song "Wind Beneath My Wings" (written by Henley and Jeff Silbar) was a U.S. #1 hit for Bette Midler and has since totaled around 6 million radio air plays. [12] The song earned Henley and Silbar the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for 1989, and Bette Midler the Record of the Year award. [13]
Silbar, a native of Los Angeles, won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1990 for co-writing Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings" with Larry Henley. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Notable compositions
As a piece of songwriting, Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar’s “Wind Beneath My Wings” is pretty drippy (which is probably why it also won song of the year). But Midler’s vocal makes it soar.
Henley was known as the co-songwriter of "Wind Beneath My Wings". In 2002 Bruce Channel and Ricky Ray Hector recorded a project with Larry Henley, billed as Original Copy. [5] "Bread and Butter" features on the soundtrack to the 1998 comedy-drama film Simon Birch and was used for an advertisement campaign for Schmidt's Blue Ribbon Bread.
"Wind Beneath My Wings", which had been recorded by several other artists before Midler in the early 1980s, among them Sheena Easton, Roger Whittaker, Gary Morris, Perry Como, Gladys Knight & the Pips and Lou Rawls, was released as the second single in February 1989, following the box office success of the movie.
Pages in category "Songs written by Larry Henley" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Wind Beneath My Wings; The World Needs a Melody ...
The song "Wind Beneath My Wings" was recorded for the album in 1987, two years before it was a hit for Bette Midler. It was meant to be somewhat autobiographical. Como also sang this song some 5 years earlier as a tribute to his idol, Bing Crosby. Como wanted to release the song as a single, but RCA declined; Reportedly, Como was so upset that ...