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 number 16 on the Billboard album charts and certified platinum by the RIAA. The album includes the singles "I Can't Hold Back" which peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "High on You" reached number 8, "The Search Is Over" at number 4 and "First Night" at number 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.
Contents
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 at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
Mick Higgins – cover concept
Rick Weigand – cover concept
Jim Marshall – cover photography
John Baruck – direction
Alex Kochan – direction