Tuesday, June 11, 2024: 6pm ET: Feature LP: Survivor – Eye of The Tiger (1982)

Eye of the Tiger is the third album by American rock band Survivor, released June 8, 1982. It reached #2 on the US Billboard 200 chart.

The album features the title track, which is also the theme song of the film Rocky III. The single went to #1 in both the US and UK, while “American Heartbeat” reached #17 in the US. Both singles also made the charts in Germany.

Following the temporary disbandment of Survivor in 1989, Jimi Jamison recorded a cover of “Ever Since the World Began” for the film Lock Up.

1. “Eye of the Tiger” 4:04
2. “Feels Like Love” 4:08
3. “Hesitation Dance” 3:52
4. “The One That Really Matters” 3:32
5. “I’m Not That Man Anymore” 4:49
6. “Children of the Night” 4:45
7. “Ever Since the World Began” 3:48
8. “American Heartbeat” 4:10
9. “Silver Girl” 4:52

Dave Bickler – lead vocals
Jim Peterik – grand piano, Hammond B3 organ, electric guitars, acoustic 12-string guitar, backing vocals
Frankie Sullivan – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, backing vocals
Stephan Ellis – bass
Marc Droubay – drums
Daryl Dragon – additional keyboards, synthesizers, E-mu Emulator
Fergie Frederiksen – backing vocals

Thursday, April 11, 2024: 5pm ET: Feature LP: Survivor – Vital Signs (1984)

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 #16 on the Billboard album charts and being certified platinum by the RIAA. The album includes the singles “I Can’t Hold Back” which peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, “High on You” reached #8, “The Search Is Over” #4 and “First Night” #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 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”

1. “I Can’t Hold Back” 3:59
2. “High on You” 4:09
3. “First Night” 4:17
4. “The Search Is Over” 4:13
5. “Broken Promises” 4:01
6. “Popular Girl” 3:39
7. “Everlasting” 3:52
8. “It’s the Singer, Not the Song” 4:34
9. “I See You in Everyone” 4:26

Jimi Jamison – lead vocals
Jim Peterik – keyboards, backing vocals
Frankie Sullivan – guitars, backing vocals
Stephan Ellis – bass
Marc Droubay – drums
Peter Wolf – synthesizers, orchestration (4)
Billy Lee Lewis – percussion
Mickey Thomas – backing vocals

Tuesday 8/23/22 11am ET: Feature Artist / Feature LP: Survivor – Reach (2006)

Jimmy Wayne Jamison (August 23, 1951 – September 1, 2014) was an American singer. Best known as Jimi Jamison, he earned recognition as the frontman for the rock bands Target, Cobra, and Survivor from 1984 to 1989, performing the songs “Burning Heart” from the film Rocky IV, “The Moment of Truth” from The Karate Kid, along with other top-20 Survivor hits “I Can’t Hold Back”, “High On You”, “The Search is Over” and “Is This Love”. He officially rejoined Survivor in 2000, remaining in the group until 2006, only to rejoin again in 2011. Acclaimed for his vocal abilities, Jamison is also known for having co-written and performed the theme song “I’m Always Here” for the 1990s TV series Baywatch.

Jamison died on September 1, 2014, at his home in Raleigh, Memphis, Tennessee, aged 63. His autopsy said he had cardiovascular disease and narrowing of the arteries and that he died of a hemorrhagic brain stroke

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Reach is the eighth studio album by rock band Survivor, released under Frontiers Records on April 25, 2006. This is the band’s first album in 18 years. Some of the material originates from a period from 1993 to 1996 when the band recorded demos for an unreleased album that can be heard on the Fire Makes Steel bootleg.

By this time, Frankie Sullivan was the only original member of Survivor, as Jim Peterik left the band in 1996. Following the release of this album singer Jimi Jamison left Survivor as well, though he subsequently reunited with them in 2012. Ultimately, this turned out to be his final album with the band, due to his death in 2014.

1. “Reach” 4:42
2. “Fire Makes Steel” 5:12
3. “Nevertheless” 4:03
4. “Seconds Away” 4:33
5. “One More Chance” 5:02
6. “Give Me the Word” 3:42
7. “Rhythm of Your Heart” 3:59
8. “I Don’t” 4:29
9. “Half of My Heart” 5:24
10. “Talkin’ ‘Bout Love” 4:11
11. “Don’t Give Up” 3:52
12. “Home” 4:44

Jimi Jamison – lead vocals (1, 2, 4-7, 9-12), backing vocals
Chris Grove – keyboards
Frankie Sullivan – guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals (3, 10)
Barry Dunaway – bass (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10-12)
Marc Droubay – drums
Kim Bullard – keyboards, bass and programming (4)
Randy Riley – bass (2, 4, 6)
Mark Christian – bass (4, 9)

Tuesday 8/24/21 12pm ET: Feature Artist: Survivor

Survivor are an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1978 by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan. The band achieved its best success in the 1980s, producing many charting singles, especially in the United States. The band is best-known for its double-platinum-certified 1982 hit “Eye of the Tiger”, the theme song for the 1982 motion picture Rocky III; that single spent six weeks at number one in the US. The band continued to chart in the mid-1980s with singles like “Burning Heart” (US number 2), “The Search Is Over” (US number 4), “High on You” (US number 8), “Is This Love” (US number 9), and “I Can’t Hold Back” (US number 13).

Tuesday 5/4/21 2pm ET: Sounds of The 80’s

Featuring tunes from this week’s Spot Light Artist – Hall and Oates, AC/DC, Warren Zevon, Joe Cocker, Michael Jackson, Kiss, Survivor, Alice Cooper, Styx and more . . .

Monday 5pm ET: Feature Artist – Survivor

Survivor is an American rock band, formed in Chicago in 1978 around Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan. The band achieved its greatest success in the 1980s, producing many charting singles, especially in the United States. The band is best-known for its double-platinum-certified 1982 hit “Eye of the Tiger”, the theme song for the 1982 motion picture Rocky III (US number 1 for six weeks). The band continued to chart in the mid-1980s with singles like “Burning Heart” (US number 2), “The Search Is Over” (US number 4), “High on You” (US number 8), “Is This Love” (US number 9), and “I Can’t Hold Back” (US number 13).

The band tweaked its musical direction in 1988 with the release of the slightly heavier Too Hot to Sleep, but the album barely reached the Billboard 200 in the United States.

Singer Jimi Jamison later toured as “Survivor” in the mid-1990s without the permission of the rest of the band, but reunited with guitarist Frankie Sullivan in 2000. The band then released Reach in 2006, but Jamison left again after its release and was replaced by singer Robin McAuley. Survivor continued to tour with McAuley into 2011 until Jamison returned later that year.

In April 2013 the band’s official media sources announced that guitarist Frankie Sullivan had reunited the current Survivor line-up with original singer Dave Bickler and the band would have Bickler and Jamison together for the next tour.

On September 1, 2014 Jamison died in his home in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 63. His autopsy, released on November 11, 2014, revealed the cause of death as a hemorrhagic brain stroke, with “acute methamphetamine intoxication contributing”.

Tuesday 2pm: Sounds of The 80’s

In this installment of Sounds of The 80’s feature music from; Taylor Dayne, Eddie Money, Squeeze, Poco, Bob Seger, Bon Jovi, Survivor, Stevie Nicks and LOTS more.  2pm – 6pm on RadioMaxMusic.

Saturday 12pm: 80’s Countdown Show with Ron Kovacs

This week on the 80’s Countdown Show we feature the Top 40 Hits from October 22, 1983 with Ron Kovacs live at 12pm ET on RadioMaxMusic.   This week music from Culture Club, Donna Summer, Air Supply, Irene Cara, Debarge, Michael Jackson, Cliff Richard, Survivor and more .. .