Vital Signs (Survivor album)

Vital Signs is the fifth studio album by American rock band Survivor and their first with vocalist Jimi Jamison released on August 1, 1984.[5] 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. This album includes the singles "I Can't Hold Back", "High on You", "The Search Is Over" and "First Night." Beyond the singles, the deeper cuts on Vital Signs keep up with the effective formula.

Vital Signs
Studio album by Survivor
Released	August 1984
Genre	Rock
Length	40:38
Label	Scotti Bros., Volcano
Producer	Ron Nevison
Survivor chronology
Caught in the Game (1983) Vital Signs (1984) When Seconds Count (1986)
Singles from Vital Signs
"I Can't Hold Back" Released: 1984 "High on You" Released: 1985 "The Search Is Over" Released: 1985 "First Night" Released: 1985

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Melodic.net	[2]
Strutter.8m.com	[3]
The Daily Vault	A[4]

This is one of the very few studio albums that remained commercially available by Volcano Entertainment after they took a great deal of their releases out of print in August 2009. Rock Candy Records also remastered the content of Vital Signs and reissued it in 2010, adding "The Moment of Truth" (from The Karate Kid soundtrack) as a bonus track.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
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

Side two

No.	Title	Length
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

Rock Candy reissue bonus track

No.	Title	Length
10.	"The Moment of Truth"	3:47

Personnel

Survivor

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

Chart (1984)	Peak position
US Billboard Top Pop Albums	16
Swedish Album Charts	48
Swiss Album Charts	27

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Melodic.net review
3. "Strutter.8m.com Review". Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
4. E5S16, Eric (2019). "The Daily Vault Music Reviews : Vital Signs". dailyvault.com. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
5. "Survivor: Caught in the Game/Vital Signs". Rock Report. Retrieved 2013-09-13.