I.O.U. (Freeez song)
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| Single by Freeez | |||||||||
| from the album Gonna Get You | |||||||||
| B-side | "I Dub U" "We Got the Jazz" |
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| Released | June 17, 1983 | ||||||||
| Format | 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl, CD (1987) | ||||||||
| Recorded | 1983, Unique Recording Studios, New York City | ||||||||
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| Length | 7:50 (12" version) 3:49 (7" version) |
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Beggars Banquet (UK) Streetwise (US), Victor Industries (JP), Virgin (Germany), Vertigo (Canada), Criminal (US, 1986), Citybeat (UK, 1987) |
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| Writer(s) | Arthur Baker | ||||||||
| Producer(s) | Arthur Baker | ||||||||
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"I.O.U." is a song from 1983 by British musical group Freeez, their most successful hit.
The song scored #2 in the UK Singles Chart earlier in 1983 before reaching the top of the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the U.S., giving them their only chart-topping single on any chart in America. It then became the 20th best-selling single of 1983 in the United Kingdom. "I.O.U." was used for the 1984 breakdance movie, Beat Street. The chorus is often erroneously sung by listeners as "A-E, A-E I-O-U, and sometimes Y", referring to the vowels of the alphabet. It is actually "A-E, A-E, I-O-U, U, I sometimes cry" and "A-E, A-E, I-O-U, U, I sometimes lie".
During 1986 a 12" single was released in the US by the Criminal Records company, with new remixes. Some of these remixes were given a re-release during 1987 in the UK for the Citybeat label as "I.O.U. (The Ultimate Mixes '87)", however, it only scored #23 in the UK Singles Chart this time.
The song has been sampled multiple times. Cutfather and Joe used a sample for their remix of Brandy's 2002 single "Full Moon"; Cheryl Cole for the song "Let's Get Down" from her 2010 album Messy Little Raindrops as does Wawa Club for the remix of StoneBridge's 2007 single S.O.S. Jamie xx uses a vocal sample for the song "Girl", which closes his debut solo album In Colour.
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