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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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.

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 ...

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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 ...

Heather Gray joins Stephanie Shonekan during this episode to discuss the Bette Midler and Eddie and Gerald Levert versions of “Wind Beneath My Wings,” a song about love, death and what it does to ...

The best movie songs from 'The Bodyguard,' 'Saturday Night Fever, 'Encanto' and more — based on their ranking on Billboard's Hot 100.

The best movie songs have a way of elevating the cinematic experience. For instance, "Dance the Night" by Dua Lipa instantly transports us to Barbie Land, and Survivor's chart-topping classic ...