''Girls About Town'' is the debut
EP by the American
rock
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band
The Smithereens
The Smithereens are an American rock band from Carteret, New Jersey, United States. The group formed in 1980 with members Pat DiNizio (vocals & guitar), Jim Babjak (guitar & vocals), Mike Mesaros (bass guitar & vocals), and Dennis Diken (drum ...
. It was released on 31 October 1980 on the band's own D-Tone Records.
The EP contains four songs with the word ‘girl‘ in the title, including "
Girl Don't Tell Me," a song originally recorded by
The Beach Boys
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.
The
7" EP has never been available in any other format, though two of its tracks were included on Smithereens
compilation albums: the title track on ''
Attack of The Smithereens'' and ''
From Jersey It Came! The Smithereens Anthology
''From Jersey It Came! The Smithereens Anthology'' is a two-disc, career-spanning compilation album by the Smithereens, released in 2004. It features most of the band's singles, as well as album and EP tracks, non-album B-sides and a handful of r ...
''; and "
Girl Don't Tell Me" on ''
Covers''.
Background
“We had a bunch of songs with ‘girl’ in the title, and "Girls About Town" was the song that everyone thought was our best live song. It was the song that we thought, at the time, had the most commercial potential, so we called the EP ''Girls About Town'' and to round it off, we made it an EP that featured the word ‘girl’ in all four songs.” -Pat DiNizio
Track listing
All songs written by Pat DiNizio, except "
Girl Don't Tell Me" by
Brian Wilson.
# "Girls About Town"
# "Girl Don't Tell Me"
# "Got Me A Girl"
# "Girls Are Like That"
Personnel
Adapted from the EP's liner notes.
;The Smithereens
*
Pat DiNizio
Patrick Michael DiNizio (October 12, 1955 – December 12, 2017) was the lead singer, songwriter, and founding member of the band The Smithereens, which he formed in 1980 with Jim Babjak, Dennis Diken, and Mike Mesaros, from Carteret, New Jerse ...
– vocals, guitar
*
Jim Babjak – guitar
*
Dennis Diken – drums, vocals
*Mike Mesaros – bass
;Additional personnel
* Alan Varner – mixing
* Justine Strait – art
References
External links
''Girls About Town'' on Discogs.com Retrieved on 14 February 2018.
1980 EPs
The Smithereens albums
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