Studio Album · No. 1
Premonition Songwriting Credits by Survivor
Produced by Jim Peterik, Frankie Sullivan · Engineered by Phil Bonanno, Les Cooper, Brad Cicotti, Larry Elliott
Holds writing credit on 8 of 8 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 8 / 8 documented
Scored across the 8 tracks with documented writers, by whether Survivor carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 8 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Jim Peterik has a writing credit on all eight songs. Six are shared with Frankie Sullivan, and Peterik took "Chevy Nights" and "Light of a Thousand Smiles" alone, so no outside writer appears anywhere on the record. Dave Bickler sings every track and writes none of them, the same split Survivor ran through his whole first stint with the band. What the album really documents is the Peterik and Sullivan partnership one year before it produced "Eye of the Tiger": Stallone heard "Poor Man's Son" on the radio, called Peterik, and asked for something in that vein.
Survivor's second album, recorded at Rumbo Recorders in Los Angeles in 1981 and produced by the band's own writing pair, Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan. Artie Ripp and Artie Kornfeld co-produced the opening two tracks and gave production assistance on three more, while Phil Bonanno engineered and mixing was finished at Fidelity Studios in North Hollywood. The record reached number 82 on the Billboard 200 and produced the band's first Top 40 hit in "Poor Man's Son", the song that prompted Sylvester Stallone to call Peterik about a theme for Rocky III.