Following his departure from Warner Brothers in 1993, Cetera met Steve Devick while on vacation in Maui with his daughter.

The song "(I Wanna Take) Forever Tonight" had been given to Cetera by its composer Eric Carmen who had himself recorded it some five years previously for an abandoned album: (Eric Carmen quote:)"Peter...toned down the lyric, made it a little less sexual.

[5] Country singer and label mate, Ronna Reeves was recruited for a remake of the ABBA classic, "SOS".

One Clear Voice failed to enter the charts, a fact that some attributed to the small relative size of River North Records.

Three singles were released to modest success on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart (AC): "(I Wanna Take) Forever Tonight" (No.

[8] In promoting the album, Cetera did several live chats on internet forums as well as television interviews and performances.