Studio album · No. 7
Reach Songwriting Credits by Survivor
Produced by Frankie Sullivan · Engineered by Phil Bonanno, Tim LeBlanc, Chris Steinmetz, Andy Hayes, Sangwook Nam, Doug Sax
Holds writing credit on 12 of 12 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 12 / 12 documented
Scored across the 12 tracks with documented writers, by whether Survivor carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 12 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Frankie Sullivan holds a writing share on all twelve tracks and is the only name that appears everywhere, which is what you would expect from the last original member running the band alone. The rest of the credit list is a band living off its own archive. Jim Peterik walked out in 1996 and Dave Bickler was fired in 2000, yet Peterik still holds three songs here and Bickler two, because six of these recordings began as demos from the 1993 to 1996 sessions that leaked as the Fire Makes Steel bootleg. None of the Peterik material is new. Jimi Jamison sings almost the whole album and writes on four tracks, the same narrow foothold he had on the 1980s records, and he shares one of those four with Amy Jamison. Everything else comes from outside the group or from its own hired hands: Mary Beth Derry and Adrian Gurvitz on "Seconds Away", Curt Cuomo on "Rhythm of Your Heart", Todd Smallwood on four songs, and keyboardist Chris Grove on "Talkin' 'Bout Love". Sullivan sings lead on that one and on "Nevertheless", the two tracks Jamison sits out, and "Nevertheless" is a Peterik song, so the album's most famous absent writer gets sung by the man who stayed.
Survivor's eighth and final studio album, released April 25, 2006 on Frontiers Records, 18 years after Too Hot to Sleep. Frankie Sullivan was the only original member left by then, and he produced the record himself at Track Record in North Hollywood and the Chicago Recording Company, with Jimi Jamison singing lead on ten of the twelve tracks. Six of the songs go back to demos the band cut between 1993 and 1996 for a shelved album that circulates as the Fire Makes Steel bootleg, which is why writers who had already quit or been fired still hold shares here.