Its original members included David Schelzel on lead vocals/guitar, Steve Lau on keyboards/saxophone, Bobby Mittan on bass guitar and Rob Minnig on drums and vocals.

The compilation also included very early work from noted local artists the Innocence Mission, who were friends and mentors of the Ocean Blue.

[3] Drummer Rob Minnig began to hone his song production and mixing abilities, which would be reflected on the next album and its single B-sides, which the band chose to produce themselves.

Westwood One Radio Networks recorded the group's June 20, 1994, concert in Ventura, California and released it as a promotional-only CD, the band's only official live album.

In 1994, keyboardist/sax player and original member Steve Lau was becoming more interested in the music business and moved to New York City, where he founded Kinetic Records.

See was released to lukewarm results, with the record company cancelling plans to film a video for the second single, "Slide", although the band embarked upon a U.S. tour.

Shortly thereafter, drummer Minnig decided to leave the group after fourteen years, and Peter Anderson, a friend of the band from Minneapolis, was brought in for live shows and, eventually, permanent recording work.

On June 1, 2006, the Ocean Blue's Schelzel/Mittan/Ronne/Anderson line-up played its first-ever South American concert, with a show at Teatro Rajatabla El Llonja, Barranco-Lima, Peru.

In July 2010, the Ocean Blue's long-unreleased studio track "City Traffic" was uploaded to Dailymotion and YouTube, with an accompanying homemade video.

The website also offered a free Christmas download of a newly recorded cover version of the ancient Basque carol "The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came", performed by Schelzel and Don Peris (of the Innocence Mission).

The release was a cover version of "Walking in the Air", a song written by Howard Blake and first showcased in the 1982 animated film The Snowman, adapted from Raymond Briggs' noted 1978 children's novel of the same name.

The band marked the occasion by performing the first two albums in their entirety at limited concerts throughout the U.S. Also that year, Rhino made "City Traffic" available for digital download on iTunes.