Cinderella (Vince Gill song)

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"Cinderella"
Vince Gill - Cinderella single.JPG
Single by Vince Gill
from the album The Way Back Home
B-side "Something's Missing"
ReleasedMarch 1987
Genre Country
Length3:33
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Reed Nielsen
Producer(s) Richard Landis
Vince Gill singles chronology
"With You"
(1986)
"Cinderella"
(1987)
"Let's Do Something"
(1987)

"Cinderella" is a song written by Reed Nielsen, and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in March 1987 as the first single from the album The Way Back Home . The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]

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"Cinderella" is about a male narrator having a conversation with a friend whom he thinks is forcing his girlfriend into a subservient role which the narrator compares to Cinderella. The narrator threatens to "take the girl and treat her like a real person if the friend doesn't change his ways." [2] Gill plays mandolin and banjo on the track, which led him to compare the song to bluegrass music mixed with New Wave music, as well as "a cross between Bill Monroe and the Beatles." [2]

Chart performance

Chart (1987)Peak
posttion
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 5
Canadian RPM Country Tracks3

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 135.
  2. 1 2 Sgammato, Jo (1999). For the Music: The Vince Gill Story. Ballantine Books. ISBN   978-0-345-47275-5.
  3. "Vince Gill Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.