Ebn-Ozn (often spelled Ēbn-Ōzn) was the New Wave duo of Ned "EBN" Liben (synthesizer) and Robert "OZN" Rosen (organ, vocals) that made a small splash in the music scene with the single, AEIOU Sometimes Y, in 1983.
The duo came together in the early '80s in New York when Rosen met Liben through a friend of his girlfriend. Soon after meeting they started spending time together in clubs listening to different types of dance music. In 1983 they released two singles on Elektra Records Read Full BioEbn-Ozn (often spelled Ēbn-Ōzn) was the New Wave duo of Ned "EBN" Liben (synthesizer) and Robert "OZN" Rosen (organ, vocals) that made a small splash in the music scene with the single, AEIOU Sometimes Y, in 1983.
The duo came together in the early '80s in New York when Rosen met Liben through a friend of his girlfriend. Soon after meeting they started spending time together in clubs listening to different types of dance music. In 1983 they released two singles on Elektra Records, AEIOU Sometimes Y and Bag Lady (I Wonder), with the former becoming a modern rock radio staple for a short while, and the latter a minor radio hit. Both had videos that received significant airplay on MTV. The video for "Bag Lady" features actress Imogene Coca in the title role. Their only LP, Feeling Cavalier, included both singles and was released in January 1984. The duo then went their separate ways.
Liben went on to work with comedian Judy Tenuta (as her music director) and Scritti Politti, while Rosen formed a studio group, before leaving music to become a screenwriter. Liben passed away in 1998 of a heart attack.
The duo came together in the early '80s in New York when Rosen met Liben through a friend of his girlfriend. Soon after meeting they started spending time together in clubs listening to different types of dance music. In 1983 they released two singles on Elektra Records Read Full BioEbn-Ozn (often spelled Ēbn-Ōzn) was the New Wave duo of Ned "EBN" Liben (synthesizer) and Robert "OZN" Rosen (organ, vocals) that made a small splash in the music scene with the single, AEIOU Sometimes Y, in 1983.
The duo came together in the early '80s in New York when Rosen met Liben through a friend of his girlfriend. Soon after meeting they started spending time together in clubs listening to different types of dance music. In 1983 they released two singles on Elektra Records, AEIOU Sometimes Y and Bag Lady (I Wonder), with the former becoming a modern rock radio staple for a short while, and the latter a minor radio hit. Both had videos that received significant airplay on MTV. The video for "Bag Lady" features actress Imogene Coca in the title role. Their only LP, Feeling Cavalier, included both singles and was released in January 1984. The duo then went their separate ways.
Liben went on to work with comedian Judy Tenuta (as her music director) and Scritti Politti, while Rosen formed a studio group, before leaving music to become a screenwriter. Liben passed away in 1998 of a heart attack.
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AEIOU Sometimes Y
Ebn-Ozn Lyrics
Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore....
I was walking up Broadway you know
and there's this incredible looking Swedish girl having a
Cappuccino across the street from Lincoln Center, I started
talking to her you know - She said her name was Lola,
Her English wasn't too good you know - but we wound up spending
about 5 hours together just hanging out you know.
So We go back to my place - we get high - we get really into each other man.
It was love about to happen...I'm serious.
And then all of a sudden she gets up and she says, she says "Hey, I really gotta leave"
Damn
A E I O U Sometimes Y
There are 178 parent languages on our planet with over 1000 dialects...
It's amazing we communicate at all.
Languages and dialects - with this one thing in common:
A E I O U Sometimes Y
Ahhh!
A E I O U A E I O U A E I O U A E I O U
Sometimes Y!!
But you know I was really flipped out you know and she asked me
if I'm angry or something I said of course I'm angry man this
isn't high school or anything you know so I'm feeling really
cavalier and I say ah...call me if you want to...
huh, yeah...call me if you want to
So she rang me up and she says, "Hey! Do you wanna go out?"
Huh, Do I wanna go out
A E I O U Sometimes Y
A E I O U Sometimes Y
Operator! Operator! What's happening operator?!
Mommy? Mommy Mommy!! Where are you
Mommy? I can't see you
I can't see you Mommy!
All artists, potentially, are the victims of their desire to be unique
Just observe it
Don't fight it
Work it. Work it. Work it. Work it. Work it.
Yeah she took me home man she threw me all
around the room man
I mean this chick was really hot she was nice
to me you know
She let me keep on my cowboy boots and everything...she was
Allright... oh! oh! yeah! oh! oh! oh! oh! ohhhhhh!!!
I dare you to play this record
A E I O U Sometimes Y
A E I O U Sometimes Y
Anyway so she took me home and she
splattered my brains
Yeah there I am there I am what happened what happened
Where was I oh here I am
I told her I wouldn't sleep with her friends - she
Doesn't sleep with my friends Anything else you do
You know...Don't you tell me
Lola
Contributed by Allison W. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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Jeff Cobb
Back when MTV played really weird videos by ultra obscure bands.
Walt Gekko
@Robert Ozn I can believe that for sure.
That song came out as New York Radio was in or just starting to come out of a period where there was no true Top 40 station for almost two years between about September 1981 when WABC (77 AM) began softening their playlists (something thet really accelerated in the final months of the legendary station's time playing music from Dec. 7. 1960-May 10, 1982) while WNBC (66 AM, now WFAN) had a program director Howard Stern referred to as "Kenny" in his 1995 autobiographical film "Private Parts" and in real life referred to as "pig virus" all the way up to that PD's death a few years ago who was extremely conservative and flat-out refused to play some songs, which would continue until WHTZ-FM (Z-100 at 100.3) would debut in August 1983. The closest to Top 40 during that period were WYNY-FM (at 97.1 at that time) that really was adult contemporary and later WAPP (at 103.5) that debuted in the summer of 1982. This song and a lot of others fell victim to the lack of a true Top 40 station in New York during those two years and why it was not the hit it should have been.
I noted this elsewhere, but if I ever got to do a '90s continuation of "Mad Men," I would want to use this song as the centerpiece of an entire episode that would be written around this particular song.
Robert Ozn
@Walt Gekko Appreciate that! It went Top 20 Billboard Club Chart - but I'm positive if they'd promoted it on pop radio it would've hit. We were on huge radio stations in major cities like KROQ in LA . The MTV exposure was amazing for us. We broke internationally too.
judd davis
This was not obscure in the year it came out. This was well known where I come from
Billy Sargent
Weird videos by obscure bands? Back when they played music at all!
Youtube Viewer
They weren't "weird", they ULTRA FN COOL!!!!!!!!!
11Stucat
If David Lee Roth and Wang Chung had a kid he would look like that guy.
Jim Fawcett
@Robert Ozn Nice! Robert. I liked that a lot.
Robert Ozn
@Jim Fawcett HaHa. Oh, Lord, man no one has ever said that about me before. You made me laugh brotha. Haven't seen Woody in years, but if I should be bump into him I'll be sure to tell him that. I record as Dada Nada these days - have a look - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqn71VrdgvQ
Robert Ozn
HAHA I resemble that. Love 'em both so I'll take it as a compliment. Yours truly, OZN - recording as Dada Nada these days - have a look : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqn71VrdgvQ