Madalaine

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"Madalaine"
Madalaine Winger.jpg
Single by Winger
from the album Winger
B-side "Higher and Higher"
ReleasedAugust 1988 [1]
Recorded1988
Studio Atlantic Studios, New York City
Genre Glam metal [2] [3]
Length3:44
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Beau Hill
Producer(s) Beau Hill
Winger singles chronology
"Madalaine"
(1988)
"Seventeen"
(1988)

"Madalaine" is the debut single by American rock band Winger, from their self-titled debut album Winger . Released in 1988, the song reached #27 on the Mainstream rock Billboard charts. According to Kip Winger, it was one of the first four songs he and bandmate Reb Beach wrote when they first got together, based on a handful of riffs Reb had from when he was younger. Kip figured out how best to arrange the riffs, enabling the pair to complete the song. [4]

Contents

Track listing

7" single
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Madalaine" (LP Version)3:41
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Madalaine" (Radio Edit)3:25
Cassette single
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Madalaine"3:41
Side B
No.TitleLength
2."Higher and Higher"3:18
CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Madalaine" (Radio Edit)3:25
2."Madalaine" (LP Version)3:41
3."Seventeen" (LP Version)4:04
Promo CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Madalaine" (LP Version)3:43

Charts

Chart (1988)Peak
position
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [5] 27

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