Vital Signs (Survivor album)
1984 studio album by the rock band Survivor
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Vital Signs is the fifth studio album by American rock band Survivor and their first with vocalist Jimi Jamison released in September 1984. The album was their second most successful in the U.S., reaching #16 on the Billboard album charts and being certified platinum by the RIAA. The album includes the singles "I Can't Hold Back" which peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "High on You" reached #8, "The Search Is Over" #4 and "First Night" #53.
- The Plant Studios (Sausalito, California)
- Record Plant (Los Angeles, California)
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| Released | September 1984[1] | |||
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| Length | 40:38 | |||
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| Producer | Ron Nevison | |||
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| AllMusic |   [6] |
| Melodic.net | [7] |
| The Daily Vault | A[8] |
Vital Signs is one of the very few studio albums that remained commercially available by Volcano Entertainment after they took a great deal of Survivor's releases out of print in August 2009.
CD releases
Vital Signs was first issued on CD in August 1984 and before the Vinyl and Cassette (the matrix on the initial pressing is “11B1”). In 2010 Rock Candy Records remastered the content of Vital Signs and reissued the album on CD. The track "The Moment of Truth" (from The Karate Kid soundtrack), promoted on this re-release as a "bonus track" on the back cover, had been issued as track 10 on a CD before by Bellaphon in 1984[9].
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "I Can't Hold Back" | 3:59 |
| 2. | "High on You" | 4:09 |
| 3. | "First Night" | 4:17 |
| 4. | "The Search Is Over" | 4:13 |
| 5. | "Broken Promises" | 4:01 |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 6. | "Popular Girl" | 3:39 |
| 7. | "Everlasting" | 3:52 |
| 8. | "It's the Singer, Not the Song" | 4:34 |
| 9. | "I See You in Everyone" | 4:26 |
| Total length: | 40:38 | |
- Bellaphon (1984)/Rock Candy (2010) reissue bonus track
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 10. | "The Moment of Truth" | 3:47 |
Personnel
Survivor
- Jimi Jamison – lead vocals and backing vocals
- Jim Peterik – synthesizers, piano and backing vocals
- Frankie Sullivan – guitars and backing vocals
- Stephan Ellis – bass
- Marc Droubay – drums
Additional musicians
- Peter Wolf – synthesizers and orchestration (4)
- Billy Lee Lewis – percussion
- Mickey Thomas – backing vocals
Production
- Ron Nevison – producer, engineer
- Kevin Eddy – assistant engineer
- Nick Sanchez – assistant engineer
- Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
- Mick Higgins – cover concept
- Rick Weigand – cover concept
- Jim Marshall – cover photography
- John Baruck – direction
- Alex Kochan – direction
Charts
| Chart (1984) | Peak position |
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| Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[10] | 85 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[11] | 48 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[12] | 27 |
| US Billboard 200[13] | 16 |
Certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Canada (Music Canada)[14] | Gold | 50,000^ |
| United States (RIAA)[15] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
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^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
