Brooks' precedent film production You Light Up My Life had had its theme song via a recording by Debby Boone spend ten weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Although Greenberg had responded warily to Brooks' pitch that Flack record the song "If Ever I See You Again" - plus some other songs heard in the film - for a new album despite Flack's Blue Lights in the Basement album being a current release, Brooks convinced Greenberg that the If Ever I See You Again theme would be "bigger than 'You Light Up My Life'...It will be a monster [hit]".

Flack recorded six more tracks to complete the album with Greenberg overseeing production at Atlantic Studios.

With the film If Ever I See You Again quickly proving a massive flop, Flack's single was left to fare on its own merit and in July 1978 spent three weeks at #1 on the Easy Listening chart with an eventual ranking as the #8 Easy Listening hit for the year.

[4][5] The projected title of Flack's seventh solo album release had been If Ever I See You Again referencing its lead single:.