Originally titled "Don't Stop Believing" (the "g" was mysteriously dropped at some point), the song infiltrated the Top 10 in the fall of 1981, back when the seeds of the Iran-Contra scandal were ...

"Don't Stop Believin'," appears on Journey's seventh studio album, Escape, which was released in 1981. It was the second single for the album, and is the first song to appear on the record.