The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows was an American psych folk band, best known for being the first band of Debbie Harry who went on to greater fame with Blondie and as a solo performer. The group took its name from British writer Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, a classic of children's literature.

The band's only album, the self-titled The Wind in the Willows (1968) released by Capitol Records, and was a minor commercial success by entering the Billboard Top 200 album chart at #195. The band broke up the following year, disappointed by the commercial and critical reception. Artie Kornfeld, the album's producer, went on to be the music producer of the Woodstock festival in August 1969. Debbie Harry went on to join The Stillettoes in 1973 and other bands until subsequently achieving success fronting the new wave band Blondie, which she co-founded in 1974 with guitarist Chris Stein.

Wind in the Willows recorded a second album in 1969, which remains unreleased. The tapes are with band member Paul Klein's second wife Alice Anne. According to Cathay Che's biography of Harry, the tracks have never surfaced, but Harry was said to have contributed more vocals than on the first album, as well as writing lyrics for a song titled "Buried Treasure". Another song originally slated for the second album, "A Quite Respectable Older Lady", was released by its writer, band member Wayne Kirby, in 2022. In 2024, Kirby released a second unpublished track, "Suzy Snowflake", taken from a tape of several cuts recorded as a demo for A&M Records in 1967.

In a review for Allmusic, musician and critic Cub Koda described the band's first record as mimicking the more successful work of The Mamas and the Papas but "about as lightweight musically as they come", and featuring Harry in a limited role as a backing vocalist.