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What I Am

Featured in Episode
Artist(s)
Top Chart Position (Hot 100)
7 (March 4, 1989, two weeks)
Year Released
1989
Album
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
Writer(s)
Edie Brickell & Kenny Withrow
RIAA Certification
NONE
Sequence song appears
Claire and Mundy making love
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"What I Am" is a song by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, featured on the album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars in 1988 and released as a single in November of that year. It appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Leap of Faith".

Notes[]

  • Brickell was performing "What I Am" on Saturday Night Live when she met her husband, Paul Simon, who, according to Brickell, "made her mess up the song when I looked at him".
  • This was the group's only Billboard Top 40 (and Top 10) single.

Personnel[]

  • Edie Brickell - vocals
  • Brandon Aly - drums
  • Robbie Blunt - guitar
  • John Bush - percussion
  • John Henry - background vocals
  • Brad Houser - bass
  • Chris Whitten - drums
  • Kenny Withrow - guitar
  • Paul "Wix" Wickens - keyboards