Bette Midler had no idea 'Wind Beneath My Wings,' the theme song from her 1988 movie 'Beaches,' would be a smash hit. "We didn't know what we had," she tells PEOPLE.

Midler didn’t write “Wind Beneath My Wings.” Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley wrote the song in 1982. Henley got the title from a poem he’d written.

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A few years after 'Wind Beneath My Wings' and several other songs achieved critical success, Morris released one more country album and then turned to Gospel music. Next: Song No. 18 Listen to ...

The song, however, “started to climb the charts,” notes the showgirl. Six months after the film debuted in theaters around the holidays, "Wind Beneath My Wings" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot ...

Idina Menzel covers "Wind Beneath My Wings" for Lifetime's upcoming Beaches remake — stepping into Bette Midler's shoes and iconic song Dave Quinn is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE. He has been ...

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“Wind Beneath My Wings” was written in 1982 by the songwriting duo of Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley. It was first released by Roger Whittaker on his 1982 LP Wind Beneath My Wings and then ...

Bette Midler, the legendary singer and actress, recently expressed surprise at the enormous success of her 1988 film Beaches and its hit theme song, Wind Beneath My Wings. In an honest interview ...

Novelist Danielle Steel, 67, is author of 139 books, including her latest, “Prodigal Son” (Delacorte Press). She spoke with Marc Myers. I’ve always associated songs with people. When I first ...

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