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Vital Signs is the fifth studio album by American rock band Survivor and their first with vocalist Jimi Jamison released on August 1, 1984.[9] Although Jamison did not sound much like Dave Bickler, 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 singles "I Can't Hold Back" which peaked at #13 on Billboard Hot 100 chart, "High on You" reached #8, "The Search Is Over" #4 and "First Night" #53.

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: September 1984 (US) [1] "High on You" Released: December 1984 (US) [2] "The Search Is Over" Released: April 1985 (US) [3] "First Night" Released: August 1985 (US) [4]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Melodic.net	[6]
Strutter.8m.com	[7]
The Daily Vault	A[8]

Vital Signs 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. This was first issued on CD in August 1984 and was issued before the Vinyl and Cassette. The Matrix on the CD that was first initial pressing is “11B1”

Track listing

Rock Candy 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

Chart (1984)	Peak position
US Billboard 200	16
Swedish Album Charts	48
Swiss Album Charts	27

References

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