# bad songs

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 5, 2006, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-songs/371481 "2006-09-05T05:56:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-songs/371481/21 "2006-09-24T08:19:28Z")

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Lou Rawls wasn’t the first person to record “Wind beneath My Wings” either. Sheena Easton and Roger Whittaker both recorded it before Rawls. The Wikipedia entry doesn’t make it clear who was the first person to record the song:

> **[Wind Beneath My Wings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_Beneath_My_Wings)**
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> "Wind Beneath My Wings" (sometimes titled "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "Hero") is a song written in 1982 by Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley.
> The song was first recorded by Kamahl in 1982 for a country and western album he was recording. Kamahl talked about being the first to record the song in an appearance on Australian TV show Spicks and Specks, but stated it was not commercially released because it was felt he did not suit the country and western style. Instead, Roger Whittaker recorded the s...

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