Vital Signs (Survivor album)

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.

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.

Track listing

Bellaphon (1984)/Rock Candy (2010) reissue bonus track

Personnel

Survivor

• Jimi Jamison – lead vocals
• Jim Peterik – keyboards, backing vocals
• Frankie Sullivan – guitars, backing vocals
• Stephan Ellis – bass
• Marc Droubay – drums

Additional musicians

• Peter Wolf – synthesizers, 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
• Mick Higgins – cover concept
• Rick Weigand – cover concept
• Jim Marshall – cover photography
• John Baruck – direction
• Alex Kochan – direction

Studios

• Recorded at The Plant Studios (Sausalito, California) and Record Plant (Los Angeles, California).
• Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California).

Charts

Certifications

References

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