The first album that I have ever had…

In the late 80’s a radio station where I lived called 101.5 WPDH a now classic rock radio station held a contest at shop rite supermarket and they drew my name from a hat or a roller and I won the Cinderella album in 1988. For some time for whatever reason I couldn’t play it so years later I did play it and it had all the or some of their hits like “Gypsy Road”, “Don’t Know What you got till it’s gone” which was the power ballad that every Hair Metal band needed to have on their album, though these were the stand out hits from the album at least in my point of view.

Long Cold Winter was their sophomore album after their debut album called “Night Songs”. I actually saw Cinderella in concert at the Toyota Pavillion somewhere in Pennsylvania they were on tour with Poison for one of their anniversary tours in 2007 or so. When I had won the album I wasn’t at the level where I could play it even though we had a record player I couldn’t play but I would spend time looking at the album cover and it left me fascinated.

In truth that was and I can safely say that the album I am doing an article on was the first album I ever had. I also had an album by a fledgling singer named Fiona called “Heart Like a Gun” whom dare I say only got an album or two because she had something going with Winger front man Kip Winger. Cinderella to my knowledge was discovered by Jon Bon Jovi, only good thing he ever did in music, just my opinion not yours just mine.

Cinderella are among the kings of Hair Metal and 80' s Metal and somehow in my collection of trading cards in the musical sense I had a trading card of one of the guys in Cinderella. Their sound was a little different from all of their contemporaries of the time which was a little more bluesy and something a little different in their sound and that is what made them original they were not copying anyone else. Years later they had released a greatest hits compilation called “Rocked Wired and Bluesd. The Greatest Hits.” Beavis and Butthead did a commentary of one of their videos but not one off of Long Cold Winter just a little something that I thought that I should mention in this article.

Just to briefly touch on Beavis and Butthead bands should feel honored when Beavis and Butthead do commentary on your video or in this day and age videos on the internet I mean it is promotion I never heard Cinderella have a problem with that but Kip Winger did if my memory serves me right. Years later in 2007 the same radio station WPDH 101.5 from which I had won the album were giving listeners a chance to have an hour of air time so I thought of top 10 hair band ballads and “Don’t Know what you got till it’s gone” by Cinderella was on my list that got an hour of air time in December when it was snowing. Other artists on my setlist included Poison, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, Warrant to name a few right along with Cinderella.

The music videos that the band had made for “Gypsy Road” and “Don’t Know What you got till it’s gone” are stand alone videos. The ballad video has the band out in the wilderness and by the lake and Gypsy Road appears to be filmed in a bohemian place some where in Mexico.