Night Songs (CD - 1986)

Additional personnel: Barry Bennedetta (guitar); Jeff Paris (keyboards); Jody Cortez (drums); Jon Bon Jovi, Tony Mills, Bill Mattson (background vocals).

Recorded at Bearsville Recording Studios, Bearsville, New York; Kajem Studios, Gladwyn, Pennsylvania; Warehouse Studios and Sigma Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, California.

Featuring a minor guest appearance by Jon Bon Jovi, Cinderella's debut album, Night Songs, positions the band as a second-tier pop-metal outfit, with a mix of ballads ("Nobody's Fool") and rockers ("Somebody Save Me") one might find on an album by any similar '80s band with a high-pitched vocalist. It's not bad, just generic; the band does hint at the potential it would fulfill on later albums, but little of Cinderella's own personality shows through at this point. ~ Steve Huey

Jon Bon Jovi discovered this Pennsylvania band, whose album is filled with the kind of catchy pop-metal his own band plays. Produced by Andy Johns. ~ John Book minimize