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Album: What We Had (2018)
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  • After studying voice at Ithaca College, Rebecca Angel went to work on her debut album, What We Had, with producer Jason Miles, whose credits include synthesizer programming for Miles Davis and Luther Vandross. This song she wrote with her father, the trumpet player Dennis Angel, who also contributed to the album.
  • Angel describes this as a "flirty, sexy song about a crush turning into a relationship." She told Songfacts: "My father wrote the song as an instrumental piece in 2011 and I always loved the melody. On the original version, I sang vocalese in the background. I thought it would be fun to re-vamp the song and put it in a new style, so my producer, Jason Miles, helped to make a new arrangement for it and it was really vibey and had an original sound!

    The song was inspired by a crush I had in college that turned into my boyfriend. We were friends for a couple years before dating, and had a very flirty relationship before making things 'official.'"

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