Songoftheday 3/26/15 - I count the falling tears they fall before my eyes, seems like a thousand years since we broke the ties...

"Nobody's Fool" - Cinderella
from the album Night Songs (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #13 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8

Today's Song of the Day is by the heavy metal band Cinderella, who came together in Philadelphia under lead singer Tom Kiefer in the early 80s. After Jon Bon Jovi helped them score a record deal with his label Mercury/Polygram, the group released their debut album Night Songs in 1986. With a "glammed up" image belying grungy minor-chord metal material, their first single, "Shake Me", didn't really make a dent besides the "Cinderella"-inspired video showing on MTV spurring enough rock radio airplay to get it to #41 on the Mainstream Rock chart. However, they expanded on the former clip's theme with their next single, the power-ballad "Nobody's Fool". Written by Kiefer and produced by Andy Johns (who engineered the legendary albums from the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin), Tom's screech sold the pain and anger he was selling in the song...

"Nobody's Fool" became Cinderella's first pop hit, reaching the top-20 in February of 1987. Surprisingly, it did better there than on rock radio, stopping at #25 on the Mainstream Rock radio list in Billboard magazine. The record also was a top-40 hit in Canada at #35.

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And here's the band performing the song live in Moscow in 1989...

Up tomorrow: another "Automobile" leaves the band's garage for an evening visit.