Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
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"Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" is a power ballad written and performed by the Glam metal
Glam metal
Glam metal is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...

 band Cinderella
Cinderella (band)
Cinderella is an American heavy metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation. They were famous for being a glam metal band, but then shifted over towards a more hard...

, from their second album Long Cold Winter
Long Cold Winter
Long Cold Winter is Cinderella's second studio album, released in 1988 through Mercury Records. It reached #10 in the US and became double-platinum for shipping 2 million copies in the US by the end of the year, just as their debut album Night Songs had done earlier. It was later certified triple...

. It was their most successful single, peaking at number 12 on the charts in November 1988. It was released in August 1988.

It is featured in the South Park
South Park
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...

episode "Raisins
Raisins (South Park episode)
"Raisins" is episode 110 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on December 10, 2003.-Plot:The boys are playing football when Bebe tells Stan that his girlfriend Wendy has decided to break up with him. Stan obviously cares a lot about this, as he has liked Wendy ever since the...

". The song can also be heard on the 2008 film The Wrestler.

The music video for this song was filmed at Mono Lake
Mono Lake
Mono Lake is a large, shallow saline lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean...

, California and Bodie California. This fact is revealed in the Tales From the Gypsy Road video collection.

This song was also featured in the soundtrack, Monster Ballads
Monster Ballads
Monster Ballads, because every bad boy has a soft side, is the first in a series of compilation albums that feature popular power ballads, usually from the glam metal genre...

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