"Madalaine" the debut single by the American

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 glam metal

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/hard rock

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 band Winger, from their self-titled debut album Winger

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Track 11, "Higher and Higher", was a CD bonus track. It wasn't on cassette copies of the album. It was also the B-side of the "Madalaine" single. In this day and age, just as CDs were beginning to become popular, it was not uncommon to include a bonus track like this.-Band:* Kip Winger – bass...

. Released in 1988, the song reached #27 on the Mainstream rock

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 Billboard charts

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. According to Kip Winger

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, it was one of the first 4 songs he and band mate Reb Beach

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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.