| "The Search Is Over" | ||||
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| Single by Survivor | ||||
| from the album Vital Signs | ||||
| B-side | "It's the Singer, Not the Song" | |||
| Released | April 1985 | |||
| Recorded | 1984 | |||
| Studio | Record Plant (Sausalito, California) | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 4:13 | |||
| Label | Scotti Brothers | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Ron Nevison | |||
| Survivor singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| The Search Is Over on YouTube | ||||
"The Search Is Over" is a song by American rock band Survivor from their fifth studio album, Vital Signs (1984). It was released as the album's third single in April 1985, by Scotti Brothers Records. The song, produced by Ron Nevison, was written by Survivor's founding members Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik, and became the band's second Top 10 hit single in the United States, peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 13, 1985.[2] It also spent four weeks atop Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary chart, Survivor's only No. 1 hit on this tally.[3] Billboard ranked "The Search Is Over" as the 48th most popular single of 1985.
Background
[edit]Survivor founding member Jim Peterik told Songfacts: "It wasn't about my life as much as a friend of mine who had a girlfriend—really a play pal throughout their growing up years—and never thought it could be anything more than that. It was looking him straight in the face that this was the girl of his destiny and he looked everywhere to find that dream girl only to come back to the sandbox."[4]
Track listing and formats
[edit]All tracks written by Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik, and produced by Ron Nevison.
US 7-inch vinyl single (Scotti Brothers Records – ZS4 04871)
- A. "The Search Is Over" — 4:13
- B. "It's the Singer, Not the Song" — 4:32
UK 7-inch vinyl single (Scotti Brothers Records – A 6344)
- A. "The Search Is Over" — 4:13
- B. "It's the Singer, Not the Song" — 4:32
Charts
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Weekly charts[edit]
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Year-end charts[edit]
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See also
[edit]- List of Hot Adult Contemporary number ones of 1985
- List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1985
References
[edit]- ^ Campbell, Matthew. "Hair Band Ballads". My Wedding Songs.
- ^ "Music: Top 100 Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 2015-06-13.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
- ^ "Interview with Jim Peterik about 'The Search Is Over'". Songfacts.com. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 301. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "1985 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 52. December 28, 1985. p. T-21.
