Studio album · No. 5
When Seconds Count Songwriting Credits by Survivor
Produced by Ron Nevison, Frankie Sullivan · Engineered by Ron Nevison, Phil Bonanno, Mike Clink, David DeVore
Holds writing credit on 10 of 10 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 10 / 10 documented
Scored across the 10 tracks with documented writers, by whether Survivor carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 10 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Authorship here is a closed shop. Peterik and Sullivan are the only names on six of the ten songs, and on the other four they add Jamison as a third writer: "Keep It Right Here", "Man Against the World", "Rebel Son" and "In Good Faith". Those are Jamison's first writing credits on a Survivor album. He had sung lead on Vital Signs two years earlier without writing a note of it, and no outside writer appears anywhere on this record. Production divides along the same line. Nevison and Sullivan produced the whole album, and Peterik's single production credit is as associate producer on "Man Against the World", the one song where Jamison's demo vocal was kept and the arrangement built around it.
Survivor's sixth album, produced by Ron Nevison with guitarist Frankie Sullivan and tracked across seven rooms in California, Wisconsin and London. Jimi Jamison sings lead on all ten songs, and for the first time on a Survivor record he also takes writing credits, joining Jim Peterik and Sullivan on four of them. It stalled at No. 49 on the Billboard 200 but carried "Is This Love", the band's last top 10 single.