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"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.
The first year "Wind Beneath My Wings" appeared on music industry trade publication charts in the United States was 1983. Singer Lou Rawls was the first to score a major hit with the song, as his version peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, No. 60 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart, and No. 65 on the main Billboard ...
Beaches is a 1988 American musical comedy drama film based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Iris Rainer Dart.It was directed by Garry Marshall from a screenplay by Mary Agnes Donoghue, and stars Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, Mayim Bialik, John Heard, James Read, Spalding Gray, and Lainie Kazan.
Gary Gwyn Morris (born December 7, 1948) [2] is an American singer and stage actor who charted a string of hits on the country music charts throughout the 1980s.. Morris is known for the 1983 ballad "The Wind Beneath My Wings", although his credits include more than twenty-five other chart singles on the Billboard country charts, including five No. 1 hits.
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
The first single from the album, a cover version of the song "Wind Beneath My Wings", reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, [3] while his rendition of Lionel Richie's 1982 song "Truly" reached #23 in 1998.
"Wind Beneath My Wings" Bette Midler: Larry Henley, Jeff Silbar: 1 5 Sing "Birthday Suit" Johnny Kemp: Dean Pitchford, Rhett Lawrence: 36 July 1 Batman "Batdance" Prince: Prince 1 2 Ghostbusters II "On Our Own" Bobby Brown: L.A. Reid, Babyface, Daryl Simmons: 2 4 September 2 Batman "Partyman" Prince Prince 18 14 December 2 "The Arms of Orion"
"Butterfly" (music by L. Russell Brown and lyrics by Irwin Levine) "Bless the Beasts and the Children" (words and music by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.) "That's What Friends Are For" (music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager) Side Two [4] "The Wind Beneath My Wings" (words and music by Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar)