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The first three of nine episodes from“Little Voice’s” first season (naturally, the cast and crew are hoping for a second) went up Friday, introducing viewers to Bess, played by Brittany O’Grady, an aspirant in Manhattan supporting herself with multiple odd jobs before she catches a break and some free studio time by winning a songwriting competition. I remembered this song and sent it to her to see if there was anything that resonated about our show.

I was devastated, of course, but that song was the entire inspiration to name my first record ‘Little Voice.’ When Jessie and I were discussing the idea of a theme song, I tried to write something and just couldn’t seem to crack it. “I had submitted the song and was told that it wasn’t as strong as the rest of the songs on my first record, and should be omitted so as to protect the vision of the album as a whole. “It was a very serendipitous moment of discovery,” she says. It may seem a no-brainer now, but Bareilles says it took her a minute to remember what she already had on her hands. So there it was waiting for us, all these years later, that song from her, like a love letter from her 23-year-old self to now.” But even though she had written the title song for it, they’d stopped her from putting it on the album. “And,” Nelson adds, “Sara actually had written a song called ‘Little Voice’ 20 years ago for her first album. So we combined forces and decided to call it ‘Little Voice.’ “And JJ (Abrams, another executive producer) and Sara met each other at a gathering, and JJ said, ‘Have you ever thought about doing a story sort of loosely based on coming up as a singer-songwriter - your journey?’ And concurrently, I was writing a piece about inspiration and where songs come from, kind of inspired by my time with Sara, because I was so blown away by what little germ would create a song for her. “After ‘Waitress’ opened, Sara and I were looking for something to do together again, because we had such a beautiful experience working together,” says Nelson, the showrunner and a co-executive producer along with Bareilles. But it took a while to get there, as the two co-executive producers batted around titles - and title songs - for the show.

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And it ultimately came up as one again when she and her collaborator on Broadway’s “ Waitress,” Jessie Nelson, began working on a new TV series about a young singer-songwriter who is just beginning to find and claim her own voice, that was an obvious go-to in naming the Apple TV Plus show. Sara Bareilles had long favored “ Little Voice” as a title - she named her debut album that, back in 2007.