Vital Signs (White Heart album)

Vital Signs is the second album by the Christian rock band White Heart and the band's first with vocalist Scott Douglas, who replaced Steve Green, released in 1984 on Home Sweet Home Records.[1][2][3] By this time, Green had already started his solo recording career with the release of his self-titled debut album released the same year as White Heart's Vital Signs. The album features their first Christian radio number-one hit "We Are His Hands" featuring Green singing background vocals and part of the choir at the end of the song. Vital Signs peaked at number nine on the Billboard Top Inspirational Albums chart.

Vital Signs
Studio album by
White Heart
Released1984
GenreChristian rock
Length39:53
LabelHome Sweet Home / Myrrh
ProducerWhite Heart
White Heart chronology
White Heart
(1982)		 Vital Signs
(1984)		 Hotline
(1985)

Track listing
  1. "Sing Unto the Lamb" (Billy Smiley, Dann Huff, Mark Gersmehl) – 3:15
  2. "Draw the Line" (Smiley, Gersmehl, Dwight Liles) – 4:38
  3. "Walking in the Light" (Smiley, Gersmehl)– 3:56
  4. "Carried Away (Safe on the Wings of the Lord)" (Smiley, Gersmehl, Steve Chapman) – 4:19
  5. "Quiet Love" (Smiley, Gersmehl) – 3:52
  6. "Following the King" (Smiley, Gersmehl) – 4:05
  7. "Let Your First Thought Be Love" (Smiley, Gersmehl, Huff)– 3:51
  8. "Undercover" (Smiley, Gersmehl) – 3:54
  9. "Vital Signs" (Smiley, Gersmehl, Huff, Gary Lunn) – 3:50
  10. "We Are His Hands" (Gersmehl) – 4:13

Personnel

White Heart

  • Scott Douglas – lead vocals (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10), backing vocals (1, 2, 4–6)
  • Mark Gersmehl – synthesizers, pianos, backing vocals (1–7, 9), lead vocals (2, 8), synth solo (6), arrangements
  • Billy Smiley – pianos, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (9), arrangements
  • Dann Huff – rhythm and lead guitars, acoustic guitar, guitar solo (2, 4, 8, 9), lead vocals (3–7), arrangements
  • Gary Lunn – bass
  • David Huff – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

Choir on "We Are His Hands"

Production
  • White Heart – producers
  • Chris Christian – executive producer
  • Jeff Balding – recording
  • Doug Sarrett – assistant engineer
  • Bill Deaton – additional engineer
  • Brent King – additional engineer
  • Mike Psanos – additional engineer
  • Jack Joseph Puig – mixing
  • Gold Mine Studio, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location, mixing location
  • Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, California
  • Bill Brunt – art direction, design, cover concept
  • Mark Tucker – photography, cover concept
  • Kent Hunter – cover concept
  • Ellen Hodnett – Vital Signs logo
  • Ken Wolgemuth – Vital Signs logo

Charts
Chart (1984) Peak
position
US Top Inspirational Albums (Billboard)[4] 9

Radio singles
Year Singles Peak positions
CCM AC[5]
1984 "Following the King" 29
1984 "We Are His Hands" 1

References
  1. Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. pp. 1033–5. ISBN 1-56563-679-1.
  2. White Heart: Vital Signs. Home Sweet Home Records. 1984.
  3. "White Heart - Vital Signs". AllMusic.
  4. "Inspirational LPs" (PDF). Billboard. August 18, 1984. p. 34.
  5. Brothers, Jeffrey Lee, ed. (2003). CCM Hot Hits: AC Charts 1978 – 2001. AuthorHouse. p. 228. ISBN 1-4107-3294-0.


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