Artist · chart history
Cinderella
Band Clifton Heights United States Active 1983–2017 US hair metal band
Cinderella formed in 1983 in Clifton Heights, United States and was active until 2017. Cinderella has 62 chart appearances on 32 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Nobody's Fool”, which appears on 22 lists with a best position of #128. The station that charted Cinderella most often is Z-Rock (United States (syndicated network)), with 16 appearances.
Cinderella came out of the Philadelphia suburbs in 1983 looking every inch the hair band, but Tom Keifer, who sang lead and played guitar, had a rasp that sounded cured in a juke joint rather than a salon. Eric Brittingham held down the bass from the first day to the last, Jeff LaBar joined on guitar in 1985 and Fred Coury took over the drums in 1986.
Night Songs, in 1986, was glam metal in heavy boots: "Shake Me", "Somebody Save Me" and the ballad "Nobody's Fool", with videos in heavy rotation on MTV and a string of multi-platinum records to follow. Long Cold Winter, in 1988, kept the hooks coming with "Gypsy Road" and "Coming Home", but a bluesy, rootsy grit was creeping in, and by the early '90s it had taken over the sound.
Then it all slid away. By the mid-'90s personal setbacks, breakups and a changed music business had knocked the wind out of them, and Still Climbing, in 1994, was their last studio album. They got back together in 1996 and kept playing live, with Coury back behind the kit, until the 2014 Monsters of Rock Cruise, and in 2017 Keifer said there were no plans to bring the band back.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cinderella on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody's Fool | 22 | #128 | – | – | |
| 2 | Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) | 11 | #146 | – | – | |
| 3 | Gypsy Road | 4 | #74 | – | – | |
| 4 | Shake Me | 3 | #39 | – | – | |
| 5 | Don't Know What You've Got | 3 | #99 | – | – | |
| 6 | Don't Know What You Got (Till | 6 | #293 | – | – | |
| 7 | Coming Home | 2 | #188 | – | – | |
| 8 | Bad Seamstress Blues | 1 | #218 | – | – | |
| 9 | Somebody Save Me | 1 | #260 | – | – | |
| 10 | Back Home Again | 1 | #322 | – | – | |
| 11 | If You Don't Like It | 1 | #399 | – | – | |
| 12 | Long Cold Winter | 1 | #459 | – | – | |
| 13 | Push Push | 1 | #544 | – | – | |
| 14 | Last Mile | 1 | #587 | – | – | |
| 15 | Shelter Me | 1 | #631 | – | – | |
| 16 | Fire and Ice | 1 | #769 | – | – | |
| 17 | Move Over | 1 | #931 | – | – | |
| 18 | In From the Outside | 1 | #963 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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