Welcome to 100 Great Covers by allmusiclovers!

One day in February 2010, in facebook.com, a music lovers group from Thailand called 'allmusiclovers' chose their 100 favourite cover versions of all-time...or as they can think of that day. I guess you might want to hear some of them.


Saturday, February 27, 2010

#038 Gladys Knight and The Pips- Hero (Aka Wind Beneath My Wings)



Popular version by Bette Midler (click)

"Wind Beneath My Wings" is the title of a pop song written by Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar.First recorded in 1982 by Roger Whittaker, then a country music hit for Gary Morris in 1983, it was covered six years later by Bette Midler. Morris' original was a Top Ten country hit, and it won the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Song of the Year awards that year. Midler's was a Number One Billboard Hot 100 hit which also won her a Grammy Award in 1990.

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