When Seconds Count

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When Seconds Count
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 13, 1986 [1]
StudioOne On One Studios (North Hollywood, CA)
The Record Plant (Los Angeles, CA)
Rumbo Recorders (Los Angeles, CA)
Manzanita Studio (Valyermo, CA)
Can-Am Recorders (Tarzana, CA)
Royal Recorders (Lake Geneva, WI)
Ripe Studios (London)
Genre Rock
Length42:09
Label Scotti Bros.
Epic (South America)
Producer Ron Nevison, Frankie Sullivan
Survivor chronology
Vital Signs
(1984)
When Seconds Count
(1986)
Too Hot to Sleep
(1988)
Singles from When Seconds Count
  1. "Is This Love"
    Released: October 1986 (US) [2]
  2. "How Much Love"
    Released: February 1987 (US) [3]
  3. "Man Against the World"
    Released: April 1987 (US) [4]
  4. "In Good Faith"
    Released: October 1987 (Ger.) [5]

When Seconds Count is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Survivor, released in October 1986. The album included the hit single, "Is This Love", which peaked at #9 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1987. The album reached #49 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The album cover was designed by Rick Valicenti and Craig Davidson in Chicago during the summer of 1986.

Contents

This is one of the many Survivor albums briefly taken out of print in 2009. However, it was remastered and reissued in 2011 and distributed by Rock Candy Records.

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Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."How Much Love" Jim Peterik, Frankie Sullivan 3:58
2."Keep It Right Here" Jimi Jamison, Peterik, Sullivan4:28
3."Is This Love"Peterik, Sullivan3:42
4."Man Against the World"Jamison, Peterik, Sullivan3:35
5."Rebel Son"Jamison, Peterik, Sullivan4:37
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Oceans"Peterik, Sullivan4:39
7."When Seconds Count"Peterik, Sullivan4:05
8."Backstreet Love Affair"Peterik, Sullivan4:01
9."In Good Faith"Jamison, Peterik, Sullivan4:22
10."Can't Let You Go"Peterik, Sullivan4:42
Rock Candy CD reissue only
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Burning Heart"Peterik, Sullivan3:53

Personnel [6]

Survivor

Additional musicians

Production

Studios

Charts

Chart (1987)Peak
position
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts) [7] 38
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [8] 68
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [9] 30
US Billboard 200 [10] 49

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