Vital Signs (Survivor album)

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Vital Signs
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Studio album by
Survivor
ReleasedSeptember 1984 [1]
Studio
Genre
Length40:38
Label
Producer Ron Nevison
Survivor chronology
Caught in the Game
(1983)		Vital Signs
(1984)		 When Seconds Count
(1986)
Singles from Vital Signs
  1. "I Can't Hold Back"
    Released: September 1984 (US) [2]
  2. "High on You"
    Released: November 1984 (UK) [3]
  3. "The Search Is Over"
    Released: April 1985 (US) [4]
  4. "First Night"
    Released: August 1985 (US) [5]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Melodic.net Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [7]
The Daily VaultA [8]

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.

Contents

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.

Side one
No.TitleLength
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.TitleLength
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.TitleWriter(s)Length
10."The Moment of Truth"
3:47

Personnel

Survivor

Additional musicians

Production

Studios

Charts

Chart (1984)Peak
position
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [10] 85
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [11] 48
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [12] 27
US Billboard 200 [13] 16

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [14] Gold50,000^
United States (RIAA) [15] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ↑ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 806. ISBN   9780862415419.
  2. ↑ "Survivor singles".
  3. ↑ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 806. ISBN   9780862415419.
  4. ↑ "Survivor singles".
  5. ↑ "Survivor singles".
  6. ↑ Allmusic review
  7. ↑ "Melodic.net review". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  8. ↑ E5S16, Eric (2019). "The Daily Vault Music Reviews : Vital Signs". dailyvault.com. Retrieved February 18, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ "Survivor Vital Signs (Bellaphon (1984)".
  10. ↑ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 9555". RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  11. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Survivor – Vital Signs". Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  12. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Survivor – Vital Signs". Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  13. ↑ "Survivor Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  14. ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Survivor – Vital Signs". Music Canada.
  15. ↑ "American album certifications – Survivor – Vital Signs". Recording Industry Association of America.


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