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Recorded
  
1985-1986

Artist
  
Cinderella

Producer
  
Andy Johns

Length
  
36:05

Release date
  
2 August 1986

Label
  
Vertigo Records

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Released
  
August 2, 1986 (1986-08-02)

Night Songs (1986)
  
Long Cold Winter (1988)

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Hard rock, Glam metal

Similar
  
Cinderella albums, Glam metal albums

Night Songs is the debut studio album by American rock band Cinderella. It was released in 1986 through Mercury Records in America and Vertigo Records in Europe.

Contents

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Reception

Night Songs sold several million copies due to a combination of Cinderella's breakthrough single "Nobody's Fool", MTV airplay, and an opening slot on labelmates Bon Jovi's tour, in support of their album Slippery When Wet.

The album peaked at #3 on the US charts on February 7, 1987, and was certified double platinum for shipping 2 million copies there twelve days later. In May 1991, it was certified triple platinum, having shipped 3 million copies.

Leadoff single "Shake Me" failed to chart, but "Nobody's Fool" cracked the Top 20, reaching #13. Third single "Somebody Save Me" went to #66. On May 4, 1987, Cinderella filmed parts of their concert in Philadelphia. These live songs were, along with their three MTV videos, released on home video in August 1987 on Night Songs: The Videos.

On the VH1 program That Metal Show, Night Songs was rated #5 on the show's "top five worst album covers on great albums" list. Eddie Trunk stated that the cover was not that bad, it was just misleading, as it put forward a glam metal image, but the songs inside were classic hard rock and heavy metal. According to some rock/metal critics, Night Songs is considered a heavy metal album. After Night Songs, the band went in a more hard rock/blues rock direction.

In the episode "How I Met Everyone Else" of the How I Met Your Mother series, Ted is seen wearing a Night Songs album T-shirt during flashback scenes.

In October 2014 for her birthday, guitarist Tom Keifer presented Lzzy Hale of Halestorm with the costume jewelry pin he wore on his right shoulder for the Night Songs album cover. Hale subsequently wore the pin on her right hip on the album cover for Halestorm's 2015 Into the Wild Life, to include a touch of tradition.

Track listing

All songs written by Tom Keifer.

  1. "Night Songs" - 4:12
  2. "Shake Me" - 3:44
  3. "Nobody's Fool" - 4:49
  4. "Nothin' for Nothin'" - 3:33
  5. "Once Around the Ride" - 3:22
  6. "Hell on Wheels" - 2:49
  7. "Somebody Save Me" - 3:16
  8. "In from the Outside" - 4:07
  9. "Push, Push" - 2:52
  10. "Back Home Again" - 3:30

Cinderella

  • Tom Keifer - vocals, guitar, piano
  • Jeff LaBar - guitar
  • Eric Brittingham - bass
  • Fred Coury - Drums, percussion
  • Albie "Al" Barker - drums, percussion
  • Jim Drnec - drums (initial sessions)

    • Additional musicians

  • Barry Bennedetta - lead guitar - On "Back Home Again" "Nothing for Nothin" and "Push, Push"
  • Jeff Paris - keyboards
  • Jody Cortez - drums
  • Tony Mills - Backing vocals (credited)
  • Jon Bon Jovi - Background vocals on "Nothing for Nothin" and "In From the Outside" (credited)

    • Production

  • Produced, Recorded, Engineered & Mixed By Andy Johns
  • Assistant Recording & Mix Engineers: David Glover, Joe Hauserman, Mark McKenna, Nick DiDia, Paul Wertheimer
  • Mark "Weissguy" Weiss - Album Cover Photography (conspicuously posed photo)

    • Songs

    1Night Songs4:04
    2Shake Me3:44
    3Nobody's Fool4:49

    References

    Night Songs (Cinderella album) Wikipedia
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